“I really try to take a step back from the soccer world and going a thousand miles an hour every day. I like to do some sort of either meditation or mental visualization or breathing exercises - something to calm my mind down because a lot of times, it's just going faster than it should.”

American former professional soccer player

Alexandra Morgan Carrasco is an American former professional soccer player, born in 1989. She became known for her long career with the United States national team and for appearing in four FIFA Women’s World Cups. With the U.S., Morgan won the World Cup in 2015 and 2019, after finishing second in 2011, and took Olympic gold in 2012. She co-captained the national team from 2018 to 2020 and again in 2023. That same year she scored 28 goals and made 21 assists, became the second American woman after Mia Hamm to reach 20 goals and 20 assists in a calendar year, and was named U.S. Soccer Female Athlete of the Year for 2012.