United States women star Alex Morgan has been named All Football Player of the Week.
Alex Morgan highlights our All Football Team of the Week and was selected as a competitive candidate in our All Football Player of the Week Vote, in which he casts the most votes beating Philippe Coutinho, Luis Suarez and Roger Martinez to the award.
Morgan scores, Morgan assists... Morgan wins it!
Domination, There was no other way to describe USWNT and Morgan's performance in defeating Thailand to kick off their Women’s World Cup title defense. Morgan led her girls poured on the goals and defeated Thailand 13-0 – the biggest blowout in the tournament's history.
Alex Morgan delivered five goals in the match, which was tied for the most in Women’s World Cup history with fellow American Michelle Akers who did it in 1999 against Chinese Taipei.
5 goals, 3 assist... Alex Morgan becomes the first player in FIFAWWC to achieve this feat, she also becomes the first female player to win the All Football Player of the Week award.