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Morgan, 26, is now the face of an expansion NWSL franchise here in this rapidly growing soccer city in Florida, standing side-by-side with the star of the Major League Soccer team that just completed its first season, Kaka of Orlando City SC, and that happened because she wanted it to happen. "I want to continue to grow the women's game," Morgan told Yahoo Sports. "For Portland I felt they had done a great job bringing soccer to the city and the community.