Alex Morgan is retiring from professional soccer and can be pregnant together with her second baby with husband, Servando Carrasco, she introduced in an emotional video she posted on X on Thursday. The 35-year-old athlete is without doubt one of the most recognizable faces in girls’s soccer and has had a storybook profession.
“I’m gonna get to the point quickly. I’m retiring, and I have so much clarity about this decision, and I’m so happy to be able to finally tell you,” Morgan stated within the video, visibly combating again tears. “It has been a long time coming, and this decision wasn’t easy, but at the beginning of 2024, I felt in my heart and soul that this was the last season that I would play soccer. Soccer has been a part of me for 30 years, and it was one of the first things that I ever loved, and I gave everything to this sport, and what I got in return was more than I could have ever dreamed of.”
She then shared she was pregnant together with her second baby. Morgan and Carrasco — additionally knowledgeable soccer participant — are already dad and mom to their 4-year-old daughter, Charlie, whom they welcomed in May 2020.
“This is also not the retirement video I expected when I initially thought I was going to do this because Charlie is going to be a big sister. I am pregnant,” she stated. “And as unexpected as this came we are so overjoyed. To me, family means everything. I wouldn’t be here without my husband and my family uplifting and motivating and encouraging and supporting me and sacrificing for me for the last 15 years as a professional athlete.”
Thank you🫶 pic.twitter.com/8BkofVOh3s
— Alex Morgan (@alexmorgan13) September 5, 2024
Morgan gained a gold medal with the United States on the 2012 London Olympics. She additionally gained World Cup titles in 2015 and 2019. But other than her success on the sector, Morgan was notably outspoken about combating for equal pay. She was among the many gamers who sued U.S. Soccer in 2019 for gender discrimination, citing inequitable pay and therapy in comparison with the lads’s nationwide staff. In her video on Thursday, Morgan tearfully mirrored on the affect that is had, noting that her daughter Charlie instructed her she needs to be knowledgeable soccer participant.
“It just made me immensely proud, not because I wish for her to be a soccer player when she grows up, but that a pathway exists that even a 4-year-old can see now,” she stated. “We’re changing lives and the impact we have on the next generation is irreversible and I’m proud in the hand I had in making that happen and pushing the game forward and leaving it in a place that I am so happy and proud of.”
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