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Post by Admin on May 8, 2019 18:13:53 GMT
United States soccer star Alex Morgan was announced as one of three 2019 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover models on Wednesday: The women's national team co-captain will be joining model and entertainer Tyra Banks and model Camille Kostek on the issue's three separate covers:
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Post by Admin on May 13, 2019 18:47:15 GMT
Nike’s latest ad provides the ultimate message of female empowerment. The Swoosh today dropped the latest installment of its “Just Do It” campaign, titled “Dream With Us.” The ad features members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, with Academy Award-winning actress Viola Davis as narrator.
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Post by Admin on May 23, 2019 17:40:43 GMT
On a drizzly spring evening in New York City, Alex Morgan fixes her gaze on the golf ball at her feet, cocks her arms and then propels them forward with effortless power. The ball leaps off the tee and sails toward the netting between the tee and the Hudson River 200 yd. away. “This is nice,” Morgan says, exhaling between swings. “Really nice.” The driving range is a favorite escape for Morgan, but she’s spending less and less time there–even as she needs the release more than ever. The reigning U.S. women’s soccer player of the year, Morgan is the sport’s most marketable American star since Mia Hamm and the linchpin of Team USA’s bid to clinch a second consecutive World Cup title this summer. She leads the U.S. into the tournament, which begins on June 7 in France, facing outsize expectations both on the field and off. As the defending champions and top-ranked team, the Americans are favored to win. But the competition is historically tough. When the U.S. hosted the landmark 1999 World Cup, which led tens of thousands of girls to sign up for youth soccer leagues, only a few countries were considered contenders. Traditional soccer powers like France, England and Spain didn’t even qualify. Now, thanks in part to increased investment from soccer governing bodies and their corporate backers, many more have a real shot in the tournament, which now has 24 teams, up from 16 two decades ago. “This is the first time I have ever been able to name potential winners on more than one hand,” says former U.S. player Julie Foudy, an ESPN analyst, who sees the U.S., France, Germany, Australia, Japan, England and Sweden as title threats. “Absolutely, this is the most competitive World Cup I have seen.” Interest should be particularly high in the U.S., where the women’s team not only outperforms the men’s team on the field–the men failed to even qualify for last year’s World Cup–but has outdrawn it too. Four years ago, some 25 million people watched the women’s team beat Japan in the World Cup final–a record U.S. audience for any soccer game.
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Post by Admin on May 26, 2019 6:49:33 GMT
The Women’s World Cup kicks off next week in France, and once again, Alex Morgan will be one of the stars leading the United States Women’s National Team into competition. The reigning world champions are the favorite to prevail again. This week, Morgan did an interesting interview with Time magazine on both soccer and her other passions in life. She spoke about President Donald Trump – and whether she’d visit the White House if the team wins the World Cup again. President Donald Trump is another target. “I don’t stand for a lot of things the current office stands for,” Morgan says. She’s particularly upset about the Administration’s policy of separating migrant families at the southern border, noting that her husband’s family is from Mexico. Indeed, if Trump invites the team to the White House after the World Cup, Morgan says she won’t go. If that turns anyone off, so be it. “We don’t have to be put in this little box,” Morgan says between sips of red wine at dinner. “There’s the narrative that’s been said hundreds of times about any sort of athlete who’s spoken out politically. ‘Stick to sports.’ We’re much more than that, O.K.?”
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Post by Admin on Jul 4, 2019 17:56:01 GMT
The USWNT beat England 2-1 yesterday to advance to the final of the World Cup on Sunday, where they will face the winner of today’s Sweden/Netherlands match. But before we allow ourselves to start thinking about that game and the myriad ways they could offend the world on Sunday, we’re here to discuss Alex Morgan’s tea-sipping celebration yesterday. After nodding past English goalkeeper Carly Telford in the 31st minute to put the U.S. up by a goal, Morgan ran to the sideline and pretended to sip tea with her pinky finger up, an obvious reference to all the tea the Brits drink — which is almost 36 billion cups per year according to the UK Tea and Infusions Association. Morgan soon went viral, and the jokes and memes commenced, with many references to America’s historic defeat of the British back in 1776. And while U.S. fans were sipping it all up, some English fans were not as pleased with Morgan. “You can celebrate however you want, but that for me is a bit distasteful,” said English footballer Lianne Sanderson, working as a pundit on beIN Sports. “I’m a big believer in the Americans and how they celebrate, but for me this was a little bit disrespectful.” Piers Morgan’s Twitter was one long rant (what else is new?) about the USWNT and tweeted, “Come on @lionesses – make these cocky yanks choke on it.”
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