Alex Morgan has said the U.S. women’s national team is aware of its potential to win an unprecedented third straight World Cup, but insisted nobody on the roster is bringing that subject up.
The USWNT has touched down in New Zealand, where it will begin its quest for a three-peat on July 21 against Vietnam.
No country, men’s or women’s, has ever won three straight World Cups, while Morgan, Megan Rapinoe, Julie Ertz, Alyssa Naeher and Kelley O’Hara have the chance to join Pelé as the only players to win three World Cup titles.
Though the USWNT is aiming for history in Australia and New Zealand, Morgan said that each World Cup is its own entity, adding that having 14 World Cup first-timers on the roster makes it difficult to focus on anything other than the present.
Asked how often the term “three-peat” is thrown around, Morgan said: “It’s actually never thrown around with the team. It’s thrown around with the media, I think a lot of fans talk about it, but honestly, we have 14 first-timers for the World Cup and we see this as our own journey.
“Each four-year block is its own. We’re coming to the end of this four-year block after the [2019] World Cup. We’re looking to obviously make history, that’d be great to three-peat but for this team, that’s not in the back of our minds. It’s really just winning each game.”
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