As popular on and off the field, Alex Morgan was once again one of the highlights of the Women’s World Cup final on Sunday. Her salary, her husband, her visit to Lyon … Here’s what better to know the attacker of the USA.

We will talk more about her career, net worth and her personal life, so keep on reading if you want to find out more.

Early Years

Thanks to women like Alex Morgan, women’s football has gained greater visibility in recent years. The American has managed to win everything with her clubs and national team, thanks to her faith in the effort and the improvement of everyday life. If you have a dream to fulfill, and you seem unable to achieve it, I would advise you to know the biography of Alex Morgan, an example of overcoming.

Alexandra Patricia Morgan was born on July 2, 1989 in the city of San Dimas, California. She is the youngest of the three daughters of the marriage formed by Michael and Pamela Morgan. Although she was always interested in sports, she did not begin to take her career in football seriously until she was 14 years old.

Thanks to a sports scholarship, Alex Morgan was able to enter the University of California, where she   decided to study Political Economy. There she began to play with her university’s football team, the California Golden Bears. In the three seasons she wore the Gold Bears shirt she managed to score 45 goals. Despite her good work with the team, the American did not neglect her studies, getting graduated in 2009.

On January 14, 2011, Alex Morgan saw her dream of playing in the National Women’s Soccer League (the women’s professional soccer league of the United States) come true. The lead was chosen in the first position of the draft by the Western New York Flash, team with which she   managed to win the championship.

On June 28, 2011, Morgan made her debut at the Women’s World Cup, in a match that pitted the United States and North Korea. The American team managed to reach the final of the tournament, where faces were seen with Japan. Although the front managed to score a goal and give an assist, the Japanese raised the World Cup.

Alex Morgan traveled with her team to London to play the 2012 Olympic Games. The American team managed to win the gold medal, after defeating the Japan national team in the final, thus taking revenge on what happened a year earlier.

Career Path

Her love with football began in the mid-2000s, when she joined the University of Berkeley. The young Alex Morgan is then called for the first time in the national team in March 2010 In 2011, at the age of 22, she entered the draft and was selected first by the Western New York Flash.

For her first season, she won the Women’s Professional Soccer Championship and then won the 2012 Olympic gold medal with the USA the following year. In 2013, she joined the Portland club, in the new National Women’s Soccer League. Titular at the Canadian World Cup in 2015, Alex Morgan won her first World Cup that year, defeating Japan in the final. In 2016, the striker signed one of the most glamorous contracts in the US Championship with the Orlando Pride.

Jean-Michel Aulas then persuades her to cross the Atlantic and settle down in Lyon for 6 months. During this short time, she fills her trophy cupboard with a French Championship, a Coupe de France and a Champions League before returning to her club in Orlando in 2017. her record was again in this month of July 2019 with the new victory of the United States in the final of the World Cup.

Alex Morgan has been married since December 31, 2015 with her fellow Servando Carrasco, a professional football player at Los Angeles Galaxy. The two lovers have known each other since their stint at UC Berkeley, California, where Morgan played on the football team. Often separated, since Alex Morgan evolves in Orlando, at the other end of the United States, the couple Carrasco – Morgan takes advantage of her rare days of rest to be in one of the two cities.

Alex Morgan is one of the best paid players on the planet football. With her Orlando club, her salary is 250,000 euros per year. Off the field, she also has a long-term partnership with Nike, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s. The player is also at the head of the collective action led by the American players against their Federation for “institutionalized discrimination based on sex” aiming at getting closer to equal pay with men. “In the United States, women have better results than men in soccer,” said Alex Morgan recently.

Alex Morgan made a name for herself in France by signing with Olympique Lyonnais in December 2016, for only 6 months. She plays 16 small matches, enough to achieve the tripled championship of France, Coupe de France and Champions League.

A great human and sporting experience for Alex Morgan, delighted to meet Lyon for the 2019 World Cup final, which was being contested at Groupama Stadium. “Just coming back to this city of Lyon makes me very happy and finding this stadium for the first time in two years reminds me of so many memories,” she said in the week. It’s great to be back here. ”

In 2014, Alex Morgan married the soccer player Servando Carrasco. Morgan’s greatest achievement with her selection would come at the 2015 Women’s World Cup. Although the American had suffered a serious knee injury months ago, her delivery and sacrifice allowed her to recover in time for the dream date. The US team managed to reach the grand finale, after eliminating China in the round of 16, in the quarterfinals to Colombia and in the semifinals to Germany.

In the last match of the tournament, the Americans would see each other’s faces again with an old acquaintance: Japan. This time the victory was for the Yankees, thanks to the three goals scored by Carli Lloyd, Morgan’s teammate. On July 7, 2019, the United States National Team again won the Women’s World Championship, after winning the Netherlands 2-0 in the final.

After going through several professional clubs, Alex Morgan joined Olympique de Lyon. With the León team, she won the Women’s Champions League, after defeating another French club in the final, the Paris Saint-Germain FC Feminines. After her career in Europe, Morgan again signed for an American club. The forward set sail for Florida to play with the Orlando Pride.

On July 7, 2019, the United States soccer team revalidated the women’s world title after beating Holland (2-0) in the final of the championship played in France. The American team started as a favorite to add their fourth World Cup and confirmed the forecast by closing the tournament with full victories.

With millions of followers on social networks. In 2015, she was ranked by Time as the highest paid American women’s soccer player. Alex Morgan generates millions of dollars in advertising representing brands such as McDonald, Chevrolet, Bridgestone, Nike or Coca-Cola among others.

She participated in Let’s Move, promoting a healthy lifestyle and was an UNICEF ambassador; she collaborated in campaigns in favor of animals and claims veganism as a healthy habit. She appeared on the cover of FIFA 16 of EA Sports, being the first player to appear on the cover of the game, as well as Sport Illustrated magazine.

Author of the series The Kicks, a collection of books and interpreted herself in the movie Alex & Me. she   married Servando Carrasco on December 31, 2014 in Santa Barbara. Her husband, whom she met in college, is a midfielder who played at Seattle Sounders, Houston Dynamo, Kansas City, Orlando City and LA Galaxy.

Alex Morgan has a net worth of around 3 million dollars, and her yearly salary is around 450 thousand dollars. Since she is still actively playing football, so this net worth amount could go higher in the following years. We still have to wait and see what she has in store for us.

Personal life

Alex Morgan was born on July 2, 1989 in San Dimas, California, United States. The youngest of Mike and Pamela Morgan’s three daughters. she grew up with her two sisters, Jeni and Jeri, at Diamond Bar, approximately 30 miles east of Los Angeles. her number is 13 in honor of Kristine Lilly, American football player with more international matches and her    first reference.

With the Diamond Bar High School, she   played at the school level, and in the university with the Golden Bears of California, before moving on to the Professional League playing in the Western New York Flash, which she helped win the league championship, Seattle Sounders, the Portland Thorns, with which she   won the 2013 league title, and the Orlando Pride.

He plays as a forward in the major division of American women’s football, the National Women’s Soccer League. In December 2016 it was announced that she would participate in Ligue 1 of France playing at Olympique de Lyon. On June 1, 2017, she won the Women’s Champions League by winning the PSG grand final in Cardiff.

At the age of 17, she was summoned to the U-20 women’s national soccer team. At 22, she became the youngest player in the national team at the 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup. she made her    debut with the US national team on March 31, 2010 in a friendly match against Mexico replacing Amy Rodriguez at the break.

In the 2012 London Olympics, she  scored the winning goal in the match in minute 123 of the semifinal match against Canada. With the national team in addition to Olympic gold (2012) and a World Cup (2015), she was elected Best American Player and CONCACAF.

On June 10, 2010 she scored her first goal and nine years later, she reached one hundred after having played 159 games with the national team.

Alex Morgan vindicates soccer players both at club and national level. In 2015, she protested after being lodged in a hotel with bed bugs forcing the NWSL to modify its guarantee policy with the footballers.

She was also one of the five signatories, along with Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn and Hope Solo, of the lawsuit against their federation for wage discrimination in 2015 after winning the World Cup, getting the United States Senate to pass a motion in favor of the equal pay of the women’s and men’s soccer teams.

Alex got married to Servando Carrasco in December 2014. The couple met at the UC Berkley. Morgan is also a vegan and she was named as the most beautiful vegan by PETA in 2019.

Quick summary

Full name: Alexandra Morgan Carrasco

Date of birth: July 2ndSan Dimas, California

Age: 30

Profession: Professional football player

Height: 1.70 m

Weight: 58 kg

Net Worth: 3$ million