Alex Morgan didn’t retire so much as she shifted focus.

The two-time Women’s World Cup winner with the United States was always more than simply a soccer player, but since she stepped away from the game she’s thrown herself into her different business ventures.

“It didn’t feel like I was stopping being something and needing to start something else the next day,” she said. “I felt like I was stopping soccer, but a continuation of so many other parts of my life.”

The 36-year-old Morgan retired from soccer last year when she became pregnant with her second child. At the time, she and her husband, Servando Carrasco, already shared a daughter, Charlie, and Morgan was playing for the San Diego Wave.

Morgan was among the first players signed by the Wave after the club joined the National Wome

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