Alex Morgan, who will turn 35 next week, ranks among the top 10 in national team history in games (224) and goals and is a two-time World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist.
Alex Morgan was left off the U.S. roster for next month women’s Olympic tournament in France, likely ending one of the most spectacular careers in international soccer history. Morgan, who will turn 35 next week, ranks among the top 10 in national team history in games , goals and assists and is a two-time World Cup champion and Olympic gold medalist.
will enter a major world championship without an Olympic gold medalist or a player with more than 150 international caps for the first time since the 1996 Olympics. The team Hayes has chosen is also the youngest U.S. Olympic roster since 2008 with an average age of 26.8, four years younger than the team that won a won bronze medal three years ago in Tokyo. It averages 58 caps per player, about half the number of the 2020 team.
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