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Women's World Cup: Alex Morgan is happy and healthy and ready to lead the US to another title

REIMS, France - She's been on the cover of Sports Illustrated in a bikini, on the cover of Time in heavy makeup and on stage with Taylor Swift.

Her face is on giant billboards and in commercials hawking such diverse wares as soft drinks and deodorant and her name is on a series of books for middle-schoolers and a lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation.

But on Tuesday all that fades into the background when Alex Morgan arrives at the only place she's ever really wanted to be: on a soccer field at the Women's World Cup wearing a U.S. national team shirt.

And the pressure will be suffocating because if Morgan

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