LOS ANGELES — When U.S. Soccer announced in August that the women's national team would be playing England in a fall friendly, the federation hyped the game by tweeting a photo of forward Alex Morgan's tea-sipping goal celebration from the 2019 World Cup semifinals.
But on Thursday, when coach Vlatko Andonovski released his 24-player roster for the Oct. 7 game at London's Wembley Stadium, Morgan's name wasn't on it. The national team's leading active scorer was ruled out because of a knee injury, which will come as a disappointment to English supporters, who sold out the game in less than a day.
"With Alex, I can't go into details how serious it is. It is a knee injury," Andonovski said of Morgan, who sat out last week's game with her NWSL club, the San Diego Wave. "What I can say is if this was a World Cup final, Alex was going to be on this trip and she was going to play in this game, no question."
