Today, United States Women’s National Team player Alex Morgan announced her retirement from the sport, but that wasn’t her only big news for the day. The Olympic athlete also revealed she is pregnant with her second baby with her husband Servando Carrasco. “We are so overjoyed.”
Alex took to Instagram to share a video where she announced her retirement. She explained, “I’m retiring. I have so much clarity about this decision and I’m so happy to be able to tell you. 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 would be the last season I would play soccer.” Later in the video, Alex revealed, “Charlie’s going to be a big sister. I’m pregnant.” Charlie is Alex and Servando’s first baby, who was born in May 2020.
After announcing her pregnancy, the Olympian continued, “As unexpected as this came, we are so overjoyed. 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 soccer star also shared a touching story about how Charlie shared that she wanted to be a soccer player one day. “It just made me immensely proud — not because I wish for her to become a soccer player when she grows up but because a pathway exists that even a 4-year-old can see now. We’re changing lives and the impact we have on the next generation is irreversible. And I’m proud in the hand I’ve had in making that happen in pushing the game forward and leaving it in a place that I’m so happy and proud of.”
Alex and Servando, who is also a soccer player, met and began dating while they were both attending college at the University of California, Berkeley. In December 2013, the couple got engaged and went on to tie the knot on New Year’s Eve on December 31, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California.
Congratulations to Alex and Servando on the news of their second baby!
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