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The Times’s Andrew Das spoke with the U.S. women’s soccer star about her team’s preparations for the Summer Games.
Read the full Q. & A. with Morgan on the Goal blog.
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CHICAGO (May 27, 2012) – U.S. Women’s National Team head coach Pia Sundhage has named the 18-player roster for the 2012 Olympic Games. Eleven players make a return to the Olympics after helping the USA to the gold medal in 2008 in Beijing, China. Midfielders Shannon Boxx and Heather O’Reilly and defender Heather Mitts make their third Olympic Team while U.S. captain Christie Rampone will be playing in a U.S. record fourth Olympic Games…
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On the Record: Alex Morgan
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There it goes again. That blur of a pink headband. Alex Morgan on the attack for the U.S. women’ssoccer team.
“It’s just a way to show off my personality,” she said, “a way to be a little different when we have to wear the same exact uniform. It’s just been something fun. It’s caught on, and it makes me happy to see that me wearing the pink headband has inspired little girls to wear pink headbands, too.”
If the headband hadn’t grabbed your attention, maybe the body paint did. It was hard to miss Morgan’s brush-applied bikini in this year’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
“Fortunately she was 22 and not 17 or 18,” her father, Mike Morgan, said with a laugh. “I actually carry a copy along with me. To be honest, I don’t look at it as she’s naked in there. I try to put that out of my mind. It doesn’t look naked. It’s really done very tasteful. I’m OK with it. In fact, I’m better with it than some of my friends.”
Want to call Morgan the glamour girl of U.S. soccer? Go ahead.
But if you stop there, you don’t get the full picture. Look deeper, and there’s a competitive streak that has made her what she is today. U.S. coach Pia Sundhage had pulled together a meticulous game plan for the Olympics - until Morgan’s sheer talent and determination ripped it to shreds. Goal after goal after goal. A dozen of ‘em in her first 11 games in 2012, not to mention seven assists. She’s played a major role in one-third of the scoring in the friendlies and tournaments leading up to the London Games.
Morgan excelled as a second-half sub during last year’s World Cup, but, these days, it seems silly not to write her name in the starting lineup. Sundhage had to change gears on the fly.
“Not only does she believe she can score goals,” Sundhage said. “But the team believes she can score goals.”
So, back to the mothballs with Sundhage’s tongue-twisting 4-2-3-1 formation. It’s now Morgan joining veteran Abby Wambach at forward in a more traditional 4-4-2.
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Soccer star Alex Morgan at the Team USA Media Summit in Dallas, TX in advance of the 2012 London Olympics.
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Soccer star Alex Morgan at the Team USA Media Summit in Dallas, TX in advance of the 2012 London Olympics.
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Soccer star Alex Morgan at the Team USA Media Summit in Dallas, TX in advance of the 2012 London Olympics.
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