Servando Carrasco Bio: Early Life, MLS, Alex Morgan & More

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Servando Carrasco is an American soccer player with Mexican roots who has played in the MLS in the United States for 8 years. He is a midfielder, and his professional career started in 2011 with the Seattle sounders. He has also played for Houston Dynamo, Sporting Kansas City, Orlando City, LA Galaxy, and Fort Lauderdale CF — a USL League One team.

Carrasco is mostly known for his relationship with one of the most famous athletes in women’s soccer: Alex Morgan.

Servando Carrasco Quick Facts

• Full Name: Servando Carrasco
• Birth Date: August 13, 1988
• Birthplace: San Diego, California
• Nickname: Mr. Morgan
• Nationality: American
• Siblings: 1 – 1 sister
• Children: 1 daughter
• Spouse: Alex Morgan
• Profession: Soccer player
• Salary: 70.25K (2019)
• Net worth: 300K
• Social media: @servacarrasco (Instagram)
• Awards: Lamar Hunt US Open Cup (2011),
• Last Updated: 06/15/2021

Servando Carrasco’s Birthplace and Early life

Servando Carrasco’s background comes from Tijuana, Mexico. His mother, Gloria, Servando Carrasco Sr, and the rest of his family lived in this city for several years during his childhood. Striving for better education and life for his son, Gloria decided that Servando had to be born on American soil, specifically in Coronado, California.

According to an interview the Carrascos held with Joshua Mayers from the Seattle Times, Servando’s early life wasn’t easy. He needed to mature faster than any other kid his age, mostly due to the poor and crimeful city they lived in. Servando and his family had to endure long-daily commutes across the border and unbearable traffic to get him to school and soccer training. Soccer became an escape to the now 32-year-old American midfielder.

Servando played for St Augustine high school and for San Diego Soccer Club. He played for 10 years in the latter. When adult life came for Servando, he decided to start making a career for himself. He went to different tryouts and camps to get prepared, but due to his mother’s sudden cancer diagnosis, he took a break from soccer.

But soccer found a way back to him: Through the Olympic development program and the Premier development program, Carrasco earned a scholarship from the University of California Berkeley, for which he played from 2007 to 2010. This was the scenery in which he and his tremendously successful and famous wife Alex Morgan met. He was known for his assists and his leadership skills. Even as a midfielder, he managed to score 13 goals during his time with the Golden Bears.

Servando Carrasco’s Professional Career

Seattle Sounders FC

Football takes another level in Servando’s life once the Seattle Sounders drafted him to play for the team from 2011 to 2013. He played for a total of 40 games. The goals were not on his side this time, as he was just able to score one — a penalty kick in June 2013 — and assisted on 1. Something every Sounders fan could miss from this player is his passing accuracy. He achieved an average of 81.8% pass accuracy during his 3 years on the team. His elegance, precision, and delicacy when passing the ball made the team have a natural flow and a very aggressive one.

Houston Dynamo

In September 2013, Seattle Sounders said goodbye to Carrasco in a trade that the team made with Houston Dynamo. The Texan team welcomed Servando until the following year came. He played in 20 games — 19 in the regular season and 1 in the MLS Cup Playoffs — but his time with the team was not as bright as he and the fans had expected.

Sporting Kansas City

Another rough patch came when Sporting Kansas City acquired his rights from Houston Dynamo in 2015. He only got to play for 9 matches before Orlando City took him under its wing in that same year.

Orlando City SC

Orlando City was a better match for Servando in terms of the number of games played and pass accuracy. He started to earn the coach’s trust and was a starter in 40 games out of the 58 in which he got to play for the team.  He even scored one goal, a rare header that ended up giving his team a win over the New York Red Bulls. His time on the team matched perfectly with his wife’s soccer schedule. At that time, Morgan happened to play for the Orlando Pride, the women’s team affiliated to Orlando City.

LA Galaxy

Eventually, The American midfielder’s time in Orlando came to an end. Sigi Schmid and the LA Galaxy squad came to his rescue in 2018. Schmid had already coached Servando during his time in Seattle Sounders. The German remembered the depth the midfielder used to provide for Seattle and wanted to bring exactly that to his team.  Carrasco played for Los Angeles from 2018-2019 in a total of 36 games. He got to play alongside and even assist the Swedish sensation, Zlatan Ibrahimović.

Fort Lauderdale CF

Servando’s last history with soccer was brief and uneventful. It happened in 2020, from July to December to be precise, when he was signed by Fort Lauderdale CF, the USL League One team. He played in 13 games for a total of 1118 minutes.

Servando Carrasco’s Plays

Now, few Servando Carrasco’s highlights during his time in Seattle Sounders. His long passes, delicacy, and stealthiness across the midfield were key to the team and his personal improvement. When Carrasco made a pass, it was certain that the play would end in an aggressive attack or goal.

Carrasco’s first goal in his professional career with the Seattle Sounders: a penalty kick as cold and accurate as his passing skills in the midfield. 

No one is offside when Carrasco makes a pass. The LA Galaxy created this video with the midfielder’s best appearances while playing for Seattle Sounders and Orlando City. His precision and style really made him stand out to the crowd.

Servando Carrasco’s retirement and post professional

It is not entirely known if Servando Carrasco has chosen to retire from playing soccer at a professional level. After his time with Fort Lauderdale CF, he has not played for any other team.

Servando Carrasco’s family: Spouse and kids

Servando Carrascos wife is widely known and especially talented womens world cup winning Football player Alex Morgan. They have known each other since their time playing college soccer at UC Berkeley. They got married in 2014 in a beautiful ceremony on the beach. His relationship to the World Cup and Champions League winner Alex Morgan is what gave birth to his “Mr. Morgan” nickname. Even though the critics and comparisons between them are hard to stand and are scattered all over social media, they keep growing stronger as a couple. Carrasco and Morgan had baby Charlie Elena Carrasco in May 2020.

Servando Carrasco’s net worth and career earnings

The midfielder’s net worth is estimated to be USD 300,000.00. According to the MLSPA, the democratic organization run by MLS players, his career earnings from all the seasons he played on the MLS are distributed as follows:

No information regarding his salary was found for his brief moment with Fort Lauderdale CF. Since Carrasco keeps his affairs quite private, there is nothing certain known about his professional future since his last team.

Frequently asked questions

References

• Servando Carrasco | MLSsoccer.com
• Servando Carrasco – Catholic High School San Diego (sahs.org)
• Servando Carrasco – Player profile | Transfermarkt
• Fort Lauderdale CF – Squad statistics (Detailed view) | Transfermarkt
• Alex Morgan, Servando Carrasco announce the birth of their first baby | MLSSoccer.com
• MLS Players Salary Guide | MLS Players Association

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