Alex Morgan

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Alex Morgan
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Alex Morgan (May 2019)
Personnel
Surname Alexandra Patricia Morgan
birthday July 2nd 1989
place of birth Diamond Bar , California ,  USA
size 170 cm
position Striker
Juniors
Years station
Cypress Elite
Diamond Bar High School
2007-2010 California Golden Bears
Women
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008-2009 West Coast FC 2 0(2)
2010 California Storm 3 0(5)
2010 Pali blues 3 0(1)
2011 Western New York Flash 13 0(4)
2012 Seattle Sounders Women 3 0(2)
2013-2015 Portland Thorns FC 36 (16)
2016– Orlando Pride 54 (18)
2017 →  Olympique Lyon  (loan) 8 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008– USA U20 10 0(5)
2009– USA U23 0 0(0)
2010– United States 169 (107)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019

2 As of July 7, 2019

Alexandra "Alex" Patricia Morgan (born July 2, 1989 in Diamond Bar , California ) is an American football player . She plays for Orlando Pride and for the US national team , with which she won the World Cup in 2015 and 2019.

Career

societies

Morgan scored seven goals in her first season at the University of California as the top scorer for the California Golden Bears . Also in 2008 she was the Golden Bears' top scorer with nine goals, although she did not take part in all games due to international appearances. In 2009, she increased her hit yield for the Bears to 14. In 2011, she became the first player of the Golden Bears for the Women's Professional Soccer drafted and played for Western New York Flash , with which they won the championship 2011th

For the 2012 season she moved to the Seattle Sounders Women in the W-League .

In the 2013 season she played in the newly founded National Women's Soccer League , the highest American professional league in women's football for Portland Thorns FC .

In the National Women's Soccer League 2016 things did not go optimally: after three seasons at Portland Thorns FC , she switched to the new league member Orlando Pride for the 2016 season, but she only scored four goals in 15 games and her team only achieved that after the league round penultimate place. A few days before Christmas 2016, she joined a European club for the first time with the French first division leader Olympique Lyon ; her contract initially ran for six months and included the option of a subsequent one-year extension. After winning the triple with Lyon, Morgan returned to Orlando in June 2017.

National teams

Morgan before the friendly on February 11, 2012 against New Zealand , in which she scored both goals to win 2-1

Morgan's first major tournament was the CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship in 2008 , in which the USA lost 1-0 to Canada in the final. In the 9-0 win against Cuba in the second group game, she made it 1-0 in the second minute. The United States qualified for the U-20 Women's World Cup in 2008 , in which Morgan was used in all six games and scored four goals, u. a. the 2-0 in the final against North Korea. This goal was chosen as the goal of the tournament and Morgan received the silver ball as the second best player of the tournament and the bronze shoe as the third best scorer.

She made her first international match on March 31, 2010 in a 1-0 win against Mexico . It was the US team's first game on snow and record national player Kristine Lilly made her comeback on the national team after a three-year break. She scored her first goal in an international match on October 6, 2010 in a 1-1 draw against China . She also took part in the 2010 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup , where the US team surprisingly only came third and missed direct qualification for the 2011 World Cup , scoring two goals. In the playoff games against Italy that were necessary as a result, she scored the only goal in the 1-0 win in the first game.

In 2011 she was used in all ten games, such as the Algarve Cup , which the Americans won for the eighth time in March and in which Morgan was the top scorer with three goals. Morgan was the youngest player in the US squad for the 2011 World Cup in Germany . She was used in five games and scored two goals, u. a. the 1-0 lead in the final against Japan . In the 120th minute, when the score was 2-2, she was only prevented from shooting on goal by an emergency brake , so that her opponent Azusa Iwashimizu was the first player to receive the red card in a World Cup final . Since the subsequent free kick could not be used to score the winning goal, the penalty shoot-out had to decide, in which three teammates could not convert and thus the US team only had second place.

At the Algarve Cup 2012 you scored three goals in one game for the first time in the game for third place against Sweden.

Morgan (in blue) in the 2012 Olympic Football Tournament final

At the 2012 Olympic football tournament , she scored the decisive 4-3 against Canada in the third minute of stoppage time in the semifinals. With the US team she won the gold medal with a 2-1 win in the final over Japan .

On January 7, 2013, she finished third behind her national teammate Abby Wambach and the Brazilian Marta in the 2012 FIFA World Cup ™ election, the FIFA Ballon d'Or . In the same year she won the Algarve Cup again with the national team . She was also the top scorer with two goals in the final against Germany .

Morgan (number 13) with the US national team before the game against England on February 13, 2015

In the game against England on February 13, 2015, she scored the 1-0 winning goal with her 50th international goal.

At the 2015 World Cup , it was used in all seven games. In the first two group games she was substituted on for Sydney Leroux . She then took over their place in the starting line-up from the last group game against Nigeria . In the round of 16 against Colombia she scored the 1-0 and in the semifinals against Germany she was fouled in the 69th minute on the edge of the penalty area, whereupon the referee gave a controversial penalty, which her teammate Carli Lloyd converted to 1-0. In the 5: 2 final against Japan she did not score a goal, but became world champion.

On January 23, 2016, she played her 100th international match in a 5-0 win against Ireland and on this occasion led her team onto the field as captain .

She was also part of the squad for the qualifying tournament for the 2016 Summer Olympics and scored three goals in the semifinals in a 5-0 win against Trinidad & Tobago, with which the USA qualified for the Olympic Games. In total, she scored five goals in the tournament that the USA won, making her the third-best goalscorer and was chosen as one of the two best strikers in the tournament's all-star team.

At the Olympic Games, however , she and her team failed in the quarterfinals due to a penalty shoot-out against the Swedes trained by their former national coach Pia Sundhage , so that the USA did not reach the final for the first time. Morgan, who scored the 1-1 equalizer in regular time, was the first player in the US team to miss.

On April 4, 2019, she scored her 100th international goal in a 5-3 win over Australia . In a 13-0 win over Thailand in the group stage of the 2019 World Cup in France , the striker scored five goals, something that only her compatriot Michelle Akers had previously achieved at the 1991 World Cup. In the following group game against Chile , like most regular players, she was not used. After that she was back in the starting line-up in all games and scored her sixth goal in the semi-finals against England. This made her, together with her teammate Megan Rapinoe and the Englishwoman Ellen White, the most successful goal scorer of the tournament. Since Rapinoe had fewer minutes of play with the same number of templates, she received the "Golden" and Morgan the "Silver Shoe". With her appearance in the final, she is one of the six players who have made it into three World Cup finals.

Private life

On December 31, 2014, she married Servando Carrasco , then a Houston Dynamo midfielder . With him she has a daughter who was born in May 2020.

other activities

Alex Morgan is also active as a writer of books for children and young people. Her first book, Saving the Team, debuted at number seven on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Middle Grade .

Morgan, along with 27 other national players, supports a class action lawsuit against the United States Football Association for discrimination as the women's team receives only 38% of the men's team's wages.

After scoring the winning goal against England in the semi-final match of the 2019 World Cup , she celebrated the goal with the gesture of a teacup brought to her mouth. After she was accused of mocking her opponents, she pointed out that the gesture was inspired by Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner , who often ends her Instagram stories with the phrase "that's the tea" . She complained that double standards were applied to women and men, so men sometimes grabbed their scrotum when celebrating a goal .

In June 2019, Alex Morgan graced the front page of Time magazine . In the accompanying article, she called for equality between female and male football professionals.

Titles, awards and other achievements

Title win

National team

society

Awards

Other successes

Publications

Web links

Commons : Alex Morgan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seattle Sounders Women - 2012 Statistics ( Memento July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), uslsoccer.com (English). Retrieved January 23, 2014.
  2. ↑ ussoccer.com: NWSL Announces Allocation of 55 National Team Players to Eight Clubs ( Memento from March 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ according to the article of December 21, 2016 at footofeminin.fr
  4. ↑ FIFA.com: Goal of the Tournament
  5. ↑ FIFA.com: FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup Chile 2008 Awards
  6. ↑ USA Defeats Mexico 1-0 in First Ever-Snow Game For WNT ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ fifa.com: FIFA Women's World Cup 2011 - USA roster
  8. ↑ Matchraker USA - Sweden ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ FIFA.com: Canada 3-4 USA (3-3, 1-0)
  10. ↑ HIGHLIGHTS: USA v. Germany - FIFA Women's World Cup 2015
  11. ↑ ussoccer.com: "Alex Morgan: 100 Caps with the US Women's National Team"
  12. ↑ United States 5–0 Trinidad and Tobago ( Memento from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ concacaf.com: "TSG announces CWOQ Best XI, Awards" ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ United States vs. Sweden 1 - 1
  15. ↑ ussoccer.com: Morgan Scores 100th Goal as WNT Fights Back to Beat Australia 5-3
  16. ↑ ussoccer.com: "100: Alex Morgan Joins Exclusive WNT Club"
  17. ↑ equalizersoccer.com: "USWNT rings in New Year with Morgan's wedding"
  18. ↑ people.com: Alex Morgan Is a Mom! Soccer Star and Husband Servando Carrasco Welcome Daughter Charlie
  19. ↑ Alex Morgan's Debut Is A Best Seller Early Word , May 20, 2013
  20. ↑ Anna Dreher: Exclamation mark of the pioneers . In: sueddeutsche.de . June 12, 2019 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed June 13, 2019]).
  21. ↑ 'Men grab their sacks': Morgan says celebration criticism is double standards , The Guardian Sport, July 5, 2019
  22. ↑ US star Morgan: "Men grab the sack" , SportBILD, July 5, 2019
  23. ↑ Alex Morgan: Time Magazine, June 2019. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  24. ↑ fifa.com: "FIFA Ballon d'Or"
  25. ↑ US Soccer Announces All-Time Women's National Team Best XI ( Memento from January 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
predecessor Office successor

Abby Wambach
Julie Ertz 		Player of the year in the USA
2012
2018
Abby Wambach
Julie Ertz
personal data
SURNAME Morgan, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morgan, Alexandra Patricia (full name); Morgan, Alex Patricia (nickname); Morgan Carrasco, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 2nd 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Diamond Bar , California