Alex Morgan

Overview

Alex Morgan is an American former professional soccer striker who won the FIFA Women’s World Cup with the United States in 2015 and 2019, won Olympic gold in 2012, and retired as the USWNT’s fifth-highest scorer with 123 goals in 224 appearances (U.S. Soccer). After her playing career she became an investor, backing the alternative-asset platform Alt in its $75 million Series B in November 2021 and joining the San Diego Wave investor group as a minority stakeholder in May 2025 (TechCrunch; Associated Press).

This profile covers the American soccer player Alex Morgan — not any other person of the same name — from her California youth career through her World Cup wins, her club career in the United States and Europe, her equal-pay fight, and her second career as a sports investor.

World Cups, Olympics and a 15-year club career

Alexandra Patricia Morgan was born in San Dimas, California, and grew up in the Los Angeles suburb of Diamond Bar, where she attended Diamond Bar High School (U.S. Soccer). She joined Cypress Elite at 14 and, despite an anterior cruciate ligament tear as a teenager, worked her way to the U.S. under-20 team and a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley, where she scored 45 goals for the Golden Bears and became a four-time All-Pac-10 selection and a First-Team All-American (U.S. Soccer). In 2008 she helped the United States win the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Chile, scoring four goals including the winner in the 2-1 final against Korea DPR, and taking the Silver Ball and Bronze Shoe (U.S. Soccer).

Morgan scored her first senior international goal on March 31, 2010, against China PR, and announced herself at the 2011 World Cup in Germany, coming off the bench in five of six games and becoming, with Abby Wambach, one of the first two U.S. players to score in both a World Cup semifinal and final — though the United States lost the final on penalties (U.S. Soccer). A year later at the London Olympics she scored three goals with four assists, including a 123rd-minute semifinal header against Canada in a 4-3 win that U.S. Soccer calls the latest goal ever scored in a FIFA women’s world championship (U.S. Soccer). Her 2012 calendar year — 28 goals and 21 assists — is one of only two 20/20 seasons in USWNT history, the other belonging to Mia Hamm (U.S. Soccer).

She played in 13 of the 14 matches across the back-to-back World Cup wins of 2015 and 2019, scoring seven goals with four assists (U.S. Soccer). In 2019 she scored five goals in the opening win over Thailand, headed the semifinal winner against England, and won the penalty in the final against the Netherlands that Megan Rapinoe converted (U.S. Soccer). Across her career she played 22 World Cup matches and scored nine goals, and 16 Olympic matches with six goals (U.S. Soccer). She was named U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year in 2012 and 2018, made the FIFA FIFPRO World XI six times, and was named Concacaf Female Player of the Year four times, including the inaugural award in 2013 (U.S. Soccer).

At club level, Morgan was taken No. 1 in the 2011 Women’s Professional Soccer draft by the Western New York Flash and helped the Flash win the league that year (U.S. Soccer). She won the inaugural National Women’s Soccer League title with the Portland Thorns in 2013, played for the Orlando Pride from 2016 to 2021, and spent her final two and a half seasons with the San Diego Wave, winning the 2022 Golden Boot with 15 goals and helping the Wave win the 2023 Shield (U.S. Soccer). Her European spells were brief but trophy-laden: she helped Olympique Lyon win the treble — league, French Cup and UEFA Champions League — in 2017, and played for Tottenham Hotspur in 2020 (U.S. Soccer). She finished with 150 regular-season NWSL appearances (Associated Press).

Morgan announced her retirement on September 5, 2024, at 35 and pregnant with her second child, and played her final professional match three days later for the Wave against the North Carolina Courage at Snapdragon Stadium (U.S. Soccer). She started, wore the captain’s armband, played the first 13 minutes — a nod to her No. 13 shirt — and left to an ovation before a crowd of 26,516, in a match the Wave lost 4-1 after her penalty was saved (Associated Press). Her last game in a U.S. shirt had come on June 4, 2024, against Korea Republic (U.S. Soccer).

The Alt investment and a post-playing portfolio

Morgan’s investing career began while she was still playing. In November 2021, the alternative-asset platform Alt raised a $75 million Series B led by Spearhead at a valuation the company put at over $325 million, backed by Seven Seven Six, Breyer Capital, Shrug Capital, Apollo Projects and individual investors including Tom Brady, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Alex Morgan, Candace Parker and Marlon Humphrey (TechCrunch). A second independent outlet, Front Office Sports, corroborated the point a year later, reporting that Brady, Morgan, Parker and Antetokounmpo “invested in the company’s Series B round that closed last November” (Front Office Sports). At the time Alt was a marketplace for graded trading cards with a temperature- and light-controlled vault holding over $70 million of cards, expanding from sports cards into Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! (TechCrunch).

After retirement the portfolio widened. On May 13, 2025, the Wave announced that Morgan had rejoined the club as a minority stakeholder, saying she had “believed in Wave FC before a single match was played” (Associated Press). She had been among the first players signed when the club joined the NWSL in 2021, played 63 matches for the Wave and scored 28 goals across all competitions, including the club’s first goal (Associated Press). She had also co-founded the women’s-sports media and commerce company TOGETHXR, and through Trybe Ventures — the investment arm she runs with her husband, Servando Carrasco — holds stakes in roughly two dozen companies spanning media to sports technology, including the L.A. Golf Club and Classic Football Shirts, alongside a stake in the Unrivaled basketball league (Sports Business Journal). The through-line, in her own words reported by Sports Business Journal, was a deliberate plan built over her final playing years: athletes can “carry on their business far past their playing career and to make a business of it, of their brand, far past their playing days” (Sports Business Journal).

Equal pay, advocacy and the foundation

Morgan’s off-field legacy is anchored in the equal-pay fight. She was a member of the gender-discrimination lawsuit the USWNT players filed against U.S. Soccer in 2019, and on February 22, 2022, the players reached a $24 million settlement: $22 million to the players involved and $2 million into a fund for players’ post-career goals and charitable efforts, alongside a commitment to equal rates of pay for the women’s and men’s teams in friendlies and tournaments, including the World Cup, contingent on a new collective bargaining agreement (Sports Illustrated). The Associated Press likewise records that the 2019 lawsuit led to the historic 2022 agreement giving the women pay equitable to the men’s players (Associated Press). She also pushed for reforms inside the NWSL, calling for an anti-harassment policy after a coach-misconduct scandal rocked the league in 2021 (Associated Press). In 2023 she launched the Alex Morgan Foundation to create equity and opportunity for girls and women on and off the field, with a focus on sports equity and support for mothers (U.S. Soccer).

What this profile does not claim

• It does not state the size of Morgan’s individual Alt investment or any later change to her Alt stake; neither was disclosed in the sources read, only her presence among the Series B backers.
• It does not pin a founding year for TOGETHXR: Sports Business Journal (via ESPN) says 2019, while TOGETHXR’s own releases say 2021.
• Wave totals are reported with their scopes kept separate — 28 goals in 63 matches across all competitions (Associated Press) versus 22 goals on a league basis (U.S. Soccer) — and the 2022 Golden Boot figure is the league-season 15 goals, not the 16-goal all-competitions figure some outlets used.
• The profile follows the Associated Press and U.S. Soccer on 224 caps and a 15-year professional career; one secondary recap gave 223 caps and some recaps say 14 years.
• It makes no claim about Morgan’s private life beyond the documented public facts in the sources above, and no claim about Alt’s status after 2022 or about the Wave’s ownership beyond the May 2025 minority stake.