News about Alex Morgan

Alex Morgan officially said an emotional goodbye to soccer on as she played in her final professional game, walking onto the field with her daughter Charlie on Sunday night. Morgan, 35, announced via social media on Thursday she was retiring from the sport after a lengthy career due to being pregnant with her second child. The US women's national team legend started and captained the NWSL's San Diego Wave for her final match and was subbed off in the 13th minute, her jersey number for most of her career.

United States women's soccer legend Alex Morgan is retiring from the sport, she announced on social media Thursday morning. Morgan finishes her career with 224 appearances for the US national team, scoring 123 goals, the fifth-best all-time. She also has the ninth-most appearances for the Stars and Stripes of any woman. Morgan was recently left off the United States' Olympic roster by new head coach Emma Hayes, leaving her international career in doubt. Now, she is hanging up the cleats for good.

Indiana Fever basketball star Caitlin Clark has broken her silence on the thought of joining Angel Reese in the new women's basketball league, Unrivaled. To give WNBA players the chance to make enough money in the offseason to not have to play in overseas leagues, 30 basketball players will partake in Unrivaled, a 3x3 league with six teams. All teams will be based in Miami and some of the biggest league stars will participate including Reese, Kelsey Plum, and Jewell Lloyd. The league even reached an NIL deal with UConn's Paige Bueckers to participate.

Born in Camden, north London, Hayes, 47, headed across the Pond at the end of the Women's Super League season, swapping her role as boss of Chelsea women to take the helm at Team USA, in a $1.6million deal that got the approval of her six-year-old son Harry. Tonight, after a rip-roaring start to the job, her team of young players will get the chance of Olympic gold. (Pictured: Hayes with Team USA during the Olympics. Inset top: with young son Harry. Inset bottom: at Arsenal)

Unrivaled is founded by reigning WNBA MVP and New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier of the Minnesota Lynx. The league will give players an opportunity to compete in a professional league during the WNBA offseason without having to go overseas. During a Chicago Sky media availability, the former LSU star gave an honest answer when asked why she chose to commit her offseason to the league.

Angel Reese is certainly making the most of the WNBA's break for the Olympics as she posted several photos from her vacation on Monday.  The Chicago Sky rookie, 22, wore a pink bikini as she posed for several mirror selfies in what appeared to be a luxurious hotel.  Reese also posted a picture of herself lying on a sun lounger around a swimming pool as she put her expensive watch up to the camera. 

Angel Reese will be keeping busy during the WNBA offseason, with the Chicago Fever rookie joining a 3-on-3 league co-founded by fellow pros Napheesa Collier and Breanna Stewart. The league, called Unrivaled, has also scored commitments from the likes of Kelsey Plum and Arike Ogunbowale, and will tip of in Miami in January 2025. Reese and the league announced the news in a joint Instagram post, with a graphic dubbing her the '305 Barbie.'

The veteran forward's struggles with the national team comes as new head coach Emma Hayes takes the reigns behind predecessor Vlatko Andonovski's departure. When an opportunity to install Morgan into the Olympic roster arose, Hayes opted to go the opposite route, leaving the San Diego Wave star in the wilderness. 'It was a tough decision of course - especially considering Alex's history and record with this team, but I felt I wanted to go in another direction and selected other players,' Hayes declared.

The San Diego Wave lost their first game since bombshell claims that team president and former USWNT coach Jill Ellis fostered an 'abusive environment' at the NWSL franchise.  Alex Morgan and her teammates went down 1-0 against the Portland Thorns on Friday thanks to Izzy D'Aquila's dramatic winner in the 85th minute. It compounded a difficult week for the Wave after Ellis was accused by a former team videographer of 'fostering an environment where abusive behaviors among her subordinates are allowed to flourish'.

San Diego Wave and USWNT superstar Alex Morgan has broken her silence on allegations leveled against club president and former national team coach Jill Ellis. On Wednesday, Ellis was accused by a former videographer of the NWSL team of 'fostering an environment where abusive behaviors among her subordinates are allowed to flourish'. While the team have denied the unspecified allegations, the team's captain Morgan has now taken to social media with a statement of her own.

The USWNT has come under fire after Korbin Albert was controversially selected for the 2024 Olympics in Paris - despite her sharing anti-LGBTQ+ social media posts. The midfielder has been booed at recent national team games but she was one of the 18 players named to the team by coach Emma Hayes this week. The selection raised eyebrows, given the backlash to Albert's social media activity from her own teammates. And because two-time World Cup winner Alex Morgan was left off the roster. 

The United States women's national team named their 18-player roster for the 2024 Summer Olympic games in Paris - and one controversial name made the cut. Korbin Albert, the midfielder who has been booed at USWNT games ever since she shared anti-LGBTQ+ social media posts, was one of the players named to the team by coach Emma Hayes. Albert later apologized for her posts, admitting that they were 'insensitive and hurtful.'

The image shows a tanned young man, naked from the waist up and with the slicked back hair of someone who looks as if he has recently exited a swimming pool. He is staring pointedly into his phone camera, chunky silver chains on his left wrist just visible, but there's no mistaking the defiantly raised middle finger that's the focus of the selfie. Katja Faber had a visceral reaction when she saw it. She felt sick. For less than ten years ago her son was killed by the man in the image.

USWNT star Korbin Albert was booed by fans on Saturday as she was introduced vs. South Korea in a rainbow-themed jersey. Albert, 20, publicly apologized in Marcg for reposting a now-deleted video of a Christian worship space preaching against homosexuality and 'feeling transgender.' And on Saturday - the first day of Pride month in the US - she was jeered by fans as she took the field in Colorado. 

The USWNT has had no time to wallow in the humiliation of last year's shock World Cup exit. Almost one year on, the Americans have been gifted a fresh start in the form of the Olympics with the games heralding a new era. Arguably, it was the Tokyo games that should have been a blaring alarm bell of the troubles ahead. But the USWNT, a behemoth of the women's game which at one point seemed indestructible, buried its head in the sand and the problems persisted, resulting in a shorter-than-acceptable stay at the World Cup. Yet, while the last Olympic Games marked the start of the decline, this year's Olympiad marks the beginning of the renaissance.

The 34-year-old striker, who co-captained the US with Megan Rapinoe and Carli Llyod, from 2018 to 2020, sustained the injury in the 82nd minute of San Diego's 1-0 loss to the Orlando Pride on Friday. The extent of her ankle injury has not yet been revealed but fellow Wave teammate Abby Dahlkemper provided an update on Morgan's status ahead of San Diego's next game against Bay FC next Saturday, April 27th

On Saturday, Korbin Albert was booed by USWNT supporters as she was introduced in the team's SheBelieves Cup semifinal versus Japan. Albert publicly apologised for reposting a now-deleted video of a Christian worship space preaching anti-gender rights and "feeling transgender." During the Fourth of July weekend, Albert wrote a TikTok post, which has since been deleted.'

For Sunday's SheBelieves Cup opener against Japan, Korbin Albert has been left out of the USWNT's starting XI. It comes after the teenage midfielder was chastised by some of her own teammates for her social media messages. Albert was available for selection on Friday, according to manager Twila Kilgore, but she was only selected from the substitutes on Saturday.

Despite receiving backlash from her USWNT colleagues over an anti-LGBTQ social media post, interim boss Twila Kilgore said, Korbin Albert is still available for selection for the forthcoming SheBelieves Cup. Alex Morgan and Lindsey Horan accused Albert of failing to uphold the USWNT's legitimacy by reposting a now-deleted video of a Christian worship space preaching against homosexuality and "feeling transgender." Megan Rapinoe fired back at the 20-year-old midfielder, as many senior players, including Becky Sauerbrunn, Lynn Williams, and Kristie Mewis, condemned 'this hatred' on social media.'

Horan and Morgan appeared in the team's press conference on Wednesday, ahead of their game against Japan on April 6. The pair weren't intended for the call at the beginning, but they did turn up to address Albert's tweet. Horan wrote, 'We're really sad that the code was not upheld.' We love this team and our supporters, and they are excited to join this one.' They should continue to be heard and seen because it is so critical.' We stand by retaining a safe and secure environment, especially as allies and members of the LGBTQ+ group,' Morgan said. 'This forum has given us the opportunity to discuss causes that concern us; something we never take for granted.'

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Carl Lewis, one of the finest Olympians of all time, was one of the most influential Olympians of all time. In sprinting and long jump, he earned nine Olympic and eight World Championship gold medals. In 1990, he went vegan. He has claimed that his plant-based diet has resurgent him as an athlete. In the long jump and the 4x 100m relay, as a vegan, he captured two golds at the 1992 Barcelona games as a champion, as well as the long jump gold at Atlanta in 1996, aged 35. Alex Morgan, a U.S. women's football striker and model who won Olympic gold with the US team at London 2012, went vegan in 2017. She was also a champion of the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019.

The United States women's national team defeated Colombia 3-0 in Los Angeles' intense 90 minutes of action, advancing to the CONCACAF W Gold Cup semifinals. All three goals were scored in the first half, starting with captain Lindsey Horan's penalty and ending in less than ten minutes by defender Jenna Nighswonger's explosion. The Americans took a 3-0 lead in the first half after Jaedyn Shaw's added time.

Jaedyn Shaw scored two goals and the United States went up 3-0 in the first 20 minutes before losing Argentina 4-0 on Friday night in the CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup. Shaw, 19, scored in the 10th and 18th minute, while veteran Alex Morgan added his third goal off a header in the 19th. Lindsey Horan finished scoring on 77th after scoring on a penalty kick. Shaw was the youngest player to score three goals in her first six national team appearances. She was also the team's fifth youngest player to score in a competitive match.

The United States defeated the Dominican Republic 5-0 in the inaugural CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup tournament on Tuesday night, with Olivia Moultrie scoring twice in her first national team debut. In the seventh minute, Moultrie, 18, who was just her third appearance with the national team, scored her first goal when she continued to tap the ball across the goal line. In the United States' first game of the year, Lynn Williams scored in the 30th minute off a pass from Midge Purce to make it 2-0.