Alex Morgan, star of the USWNT, and face of USA Soccer was in Lake Barrington yesterday holding a soccer clinic to raise money for Illinois Youth Soccer. With the tremendous success of last year’s Illinois Youth Soccer’s “Soccer For Success” program fundraiser with Abby Wambach, the 2nd Annual Soccer For Success Fundraiser, this year featuring US National Team and NWSL Star, Alex Morgan.
Alex Morgan came to the Lake Barrington Field House on Sunday, November 17th And every registered player had the chance to play soccer with Alex Morgan at the event.
Additionally, everyone raising $250 got to:
Attend the event with a parent or guardian
Meet, have a picture taken with, and get an autograph from Alex Morgan
Have lunch sponsored by Chipotle. The top 10 overall fundraisers sat at a special table with Alex Morgan and the top 2 sat next to her.
Here’s a short one minute video of Alex Morgan talking about the event. In addition to this exclusive, I also have nine more minutes from my exclusive interview with @alexmorgan13 so keep up coming back to The Sports Bank this week for more Alex Morgan stories
And here’s some B-Roll footage of Alex Morgan playing soccer with the kids.
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