The last nine months have been a whirlwind for Alex Morgan.
The national team captain gave birth to her first child in May, scored twice in a five-game stint with Tottenham of the England Women’s Super League in the fall, then contracted COVID-19 when she returned to the U.S. for the holidays.
“My whole family got it,” Morgan said Thursday during a teleconference from the national team’s training base in Orlando, Fla. “We were together 10, 12, 14 days just recovering. Sleeping as much as we could. I was fighting off a little bit of a fever for quite a few days.