Alex Morgan Bids Emotional Goodbye to Soccer As She Leaves Pitch for Remaining Time

Alex Morgan’s storied soccer profession has come to an finish.

On Sunday, the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce legend walked off the pitch for the ultimate time through the San Diego Wave’s house matchup with the North Carolina Braveness.

Within the thirteenth minute, Morgan was subbed off and the sport was paused as her Wave teammates and the Braveness’s gamers stopped to applaud and embrace her. Morgan was in tears as she took off her cleats, waved to the gang and walked off the sphere. It was an extremely emotional scene.

Morgan introduced her retirement final week whereas additionally revealing she was pregnant together with her second baby. The 35-year-old leaves the game as some of the prolific aim scorers within the historical past of U.S. Soccer.

In 224 worldwide appearances for the U.S. girls’s nationwide workforce, Morgan scored 123 objectives. She is ninth all-time in USWNT caps and fifth all-time in objectives scored.

The striker was a key member of the 2015 and 2019 World Cup-winning U.S. squads and received an Olympic gold medal in 2012.

Morgan has develop into a crossover star who, together with a lot of her generations stars, has helped elevate girls’s soccer over the previous decade.