Alex Morgan announces soccer retirement and pregnancy in emotional video

September 5, 2024

Congratulations are in order for USWNT star Alex Morgan.

The San Diego Wave FC striker announced she and husband Servando Carrasco are expecting their second child in a video revealing she is retiring from soccer on Thursday.

“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,” Morgan said.

Morgan and Carrasco, a fellow professional soccer player, have a 4-year-old daughter, Charlie Carrasco. whom they welcomed on May 7, 2020.

“And as unexpected as this came we are so overjoyed,” Morgan said. “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.”

The 35-year-old soccer star said her last professional soccer game will be when the San Diego Wave FC face the North Carolina Courage at Snapdragon Stadium Sunday.

“I’m retiring and I have so much clarity about this position and I’m so happy to be able to finally tell you,” Morgan began the video while pausing through 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.”