When Devin shows up for tryouts, she discovers that the Kentville Kangaroos-otherwise known as the Kicks-are an absolute mess. After all, some of the best players on the US national team come from California. But now that Devin is starting seventh grade in Kentville, California, all bets are off. If she hadn’t just left Connecticut to move across the country, she would have been named seventh-grade captain on her school soccer team. Morgan appeared alongside Lionel Messi on covers of FIFA 16 sold in the United States.From star soccer player and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan comes the first book in an empowering, fun-filled middle grade series about believing in yourself and working as a team.Twelve-year-old Devin loves to play soccer. In 2015, Morgan, along with Canada's Christine Sinclair and Australia's Steph Catley, became the first female players to make the cover of FIFA video games. She married soccer player Servando Carrasco in December 2014. She has endorsement deals with Nike, Nationwide, Panasonic, Coca Cola, ChapStick, and Bridgestone. The first book in the series, Saving the Team (ISBN 1442485701), debuted at number seven on the The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Middle Grade in May 2013. Off the field, Morgan teamed with Simon & Schuster to write a middle-grade book series about four soccer players entitled The Kicks. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year and was a FIFA World Player of the Year finalist. player to score 20 goals in a single year. She finished 2012 with 28 goals and 21 assists, joining Mia Hamm as the only American women to score 20 goals and collect 20 assists in the same calendar year, and making her the sixth and youngest U.S. In the 2012 London Olympics she scored the game-winning goal in the 123rd minute of the semifinal game against Canada.
There, she made her professional debut and helped the team win the league championship.Īt age 22, she was the youngest player on the national team at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup. Shortly after graduating early from the University of California, Berkeley where she played for the women's soccer team, Morgan was drafted number one overall in the 2011 WPS Draft by the Western New York Flash. She is a forward for the Orlando Pride in the NWSL and the United States women's national soccer team. Alexandra Patricia "Alex" Morgan (born July 2, 1989) is an American soccer player, Olympic gold medalist, and FIFA Women's World Cup champion.
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