The 2024 Olympics are just around the corner, but U.S. women’s national team star forward Alex Morgan could find herself on the outside looking in.
With less than seven months before the Summer Games kick off in Paris, athletes are starting to solidify their spots. That’s no different for the USWNT, with the soccer squad set to kick off the inaugural Concacaf W Gold Cup later this month in an excellent precursor to the Olympic tournament in July.
When the USWNT announced its roster for the Gold Cup on Wednesday, though, Morgan was a surprise omission. A co-captain at the 2023 World Cup, the veteran striker has repped the red, white and blue for more than a decade, but a younger forward group is taking the reins.
While the Olympic roster is still months from being finalized, the squad competing in the Gold Cup likely provides a window into the plans of the coaching staff. So Morgan’s status for the Summer Games is very much in question.
Here is what to know about the two-time World Cup champion’s absence from the USWNT roster.
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Where is Alex Morgan?
Several notable names were left off the Concacaf women’s roster for the United States (Becky Sauerbrunn and Kelley O’Hara among them), but the biggest one…
