Alex Morgan didn't retire so much as she shifted focus.
The two-time Women's World Cup winner with the United States was always more than simply a soccer player, but since she stepped away from the game she's thrown herself into her different business ventures.
"It didn’t feel like I was stopping being something and needing to start something else the next day," she said. "I felt like I was stopping soccer, but a continuation of so many other parts of my life.”
The 36-year-old Morgan when she became pregnant with her second child. At the time, she and her husband, Servando Carrasco, already shared a daughter, Charlie, and Morgan was playing for the San Diego Wave.
Morgan was among the first players signed by the Wave after the club joined the National Women's Soccer League in 2021. She