Alex Morgan, who debuted on Saturday for new French club Lyon before returning to the U.S. women’s national team camp in California, told the Guardian that the U.S. women “need to do what’s necessary” to wintheir fight with U.S. Soccer for equal pay and better working conditions.
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What They're Saying: Alex Morgan
“I was wondering who this crazy person was. It was very funny. We had a couple of laughs over it.” — Alex Morgan, at her player introduction at new club Lyon, on the French club’spresident, Jean-Michel Aulas, who courted her via Twitter for almost nine months before she agreed to a six-month contract with the […]
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Warning could mean (Chinese) soccer bubble is about to burst
Wild spending by Chinese Super League clubs — including massive deals for Oscar and Carlos Tevez by rival Shanghai clubs — has to stop. That warning isn’t coming fromEuropean officials, fearful of the inflationary pressure on transfer fees and salaries, but from the Chinese Sports General Administration, which issued a statement on Thursday that it […]
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What awaits Alex Morgan on and off field in France
The knock on French women’s soccer is that there’s no competition. It was one of the reasons expressed by French star Amandine Henry in her decision to leave Lyon for the relative parity of theNWSL. Alex Morgan now makes the move six months later the other way to Lyon just as its domination is threatened […]
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Alex Morgan is ready to 'live' soccer at Lyon
Lots of NWSL players go off on offseason loans. This one is different: Alex Morgan is leaving the Orlando Pride to spend the next five months at European champion Lyon. Morgan says the decisionwasn’t easy as the move comes at a critical juncture for the women’s player union, in negotiations with U.S Soccer, and the […]
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USWNT: Mix of veterans and new faces ready tor Romania
The timing is a bit unfortunate, falling on the day before the USA men tangle with Mexico to kick off the Hexagonal, but for the American women games against Romania this week offer a good lookinto the future. Five of the six players that earned their first caps against Switzerland last month are back in […]
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USWNT: Five regulars return for Romania series
U.S. women’s national team coach Jill Ellis recalled five regulars who had sat out the Switzerland series for the final games of the year against Romania in November: Julie Johnston,Meghan Klingenberg, Ali Krieger, Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan From the team that went to the Rio Olympics, all but Carli Lloyd, who is getting married,Hope […]
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What They're Saying: Alex Morgan
“The players don’t control any of the consequences that happen, that are enforced by U.S. Soccer. So, it’s a bummer that happened to one of my teammates, but at the same time Idon’t agree with the things that she said in the Olympics.” — Alex Morgan on the six-month suspension of longtime U.S. teammate Hope […]
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What They're Saying: Alex Morgan
“They played their cards right. They did the exact same thing with Brazil. They’re in the final, so you can’t really doubt their strategy now.” — U.S. women’sstar Alex Morgan on Sweden, which beat the USA and Brazil in shootouts to reach the Rio Olympics gold-medal game. Morgan said she didn’t share teammate Hope Solo‘s […]
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USA-Sweden Olympic Women's Soccer Player Ratings
The USA is out of the Olympics. Not only won’t it do what no one else has done — capture Olympic gold a year after winning the Women’s World Cup — but it won’t even medal. The Americans fell tonemesis Sweden in a shootout after their quarterfinal game ended 1-1 in Brasilia. The Americans had […]