Alex Morgan is a prominent representative of women's football. An American by birth, she plays for the US national team and Orlando Pride Football Club. Olympic champion in the 2012 national team.
Biography
The future football player Alexandra Morgan was born on the second day of July 1989 in the small American town of Diamond Bar. Alex was the third and youngest child in the family. Since childhood, the girl was attracted by men's sports, in addition to football, she was also fond of basketball and baseball. But when Alexandra turned fourteen, she was lucky enough to get on screening at the local Cypress Elite football academy, and then she finally decided on her future. A year later, Morgan got her first title won. As part of the U-16 (U16) team, she won the Coast League medal.
Football career
Thanks to her talents and skills, Alex Morgan made her debut for the United States of America under20 when she was just 17. She went to university in 2007 to pursue higher education, where she also began playing for the local team California Golden Birds. In January 2011, she ended up at the Western New York Flash Football Club. It was a big step for Morgan, as this club performed at a professional level. For the first time, a talented football player scored a goal in May of the same year in the country's tournament against the Atlanta Bit football club.
In the same year, the team became the WPS champion. But the league was disbanded, and there was another professional women's league in the country and the girls had a choice: to stay in their homeland, but play at an amateur level, or move to Europe. Morgan stayed in the United States and moved to the Seattle Sounders Wumen amateur club.
At the end of 2012, the issue of professional women's football in the United States was resolved, and the creation of a league, which was named the National Women's Soccer League, was announced. In January 2013, Alex signed a contract with the Portland Thorns league club. She spent three seasons in the team, in which she played only 36 matches. From 2016 to this day he has been playing for Orlando Prides.
Team USA
Alex Morgan has been playing for the national team since 2010. She took part in the 2012 Olympics, then the United States won gold medals in the final against the Japanese national team. In 2015, Morgan became the world champion in football.
Personal life
The famous football player Alex Morgan is married. Her chosen one is Servando Carrasco, he is also a professional footballer, plays in MLS for the Houston Dynamo football club. The couple got married on the last day of 2014.
Morgan not only plays football, but also writes books about it: since 2012, she launched the series of books The Kicks, which tells about several girls football players. According to Alexandra Morgan herself, this is how she inspires teenage girls to play sports.
