Alex Morgan baby PING!
At 1130am on May 7 weighing 8lbs5oz, Charlie Elena Carrasco made her grand entrance into the world. She made us wait longer than expected, but I should have known she would do it her way and her way only. My super moon baby. pic.twitter.com/dDbIXW6INr— Alex Morgan (@alexmorgan13) May 9, 2020
Morgan had wanted to return to the team in time for the Olympics. That was always an awfully ambitious schedule, but with the COVID-19 hiatus, the time equation has shifted. Still, I wonder whether she will return. The majority of the women retire from professional soccer once they have kids, and at age 30 Alex was entering the endgame anyhow. Children do tend to change perspectives and, as a practical matter in the age of birth control, perspectives have already changed when a female athlete decides to go ahead and get pregnant. I've always suspected Alex already had one foot out the door when she and her husband decided to start a family, even if she hadn't admitted it to herself yet. My guess is that the Olympics was to have been her swan song.
She is one of the greats. Her goal scoring rate is incredible. Had she not lost the equivalent of two and a half years to injuries in the prime of her career, she would probably have finished second or third on the all-time USWNT scoring list.