Alex Morgan speaks during a press conference announcing her retirement. (Abe Arredondo-Imagn Images)
Alex Morgan will always remember the championships. But what she’ll remember more points to the kind of player she is.
One of the greatest players in U.S. women’s national team history, Morgan will retire after Sunday’s San Diego Wave game. She made the announcement in a video on social media, revealing that she’s pregnant with her second child. While the pregnancy moved up her retirement timeline, she had always intended to walk away from the game after this season.
“As unexpected as it was, I was so happy because this was what our family wanted, a couple of months sooner than expected, but, nonetheless we were very overjoyed,” Morgan said during her retirement press conference on Friday. “I just felt like this was the right time. I felt like the last couple of weeks I’ve sort of lost a step, you know, in playing and I felt like for my body and my mind and my heart, this was the right decision at this…
