Jordan Perry Morris (born October 26, 1994) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a winger and forward for Major League Soccer club Seattle Sounders FC and the United States national team. He grew up on Mercer Island, Washington and joined the Sounders youth academy before playing college soccer at Stanford University.
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Full name | Jordan Perry Morris[1] | |||||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1994-10-26) October 26, 1994 (age 28) | |||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Seattle, Washington, United States | |||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | |||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Winger | |||||||||||||||
Club information | ||||||||||||||||
Current team | Seattle Sounders FC | |||||||||||||||
Number | 13 | |||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||
2004–2012 | Eastside FC | |||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | Seattle Sounders FC | |||||||||||||||
College career | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2013–2015 | Stanford Cardinal | 54 | (23) | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2014 | Seattle Sounders FC U23 | 4 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2016– | Seattle Sounders FC | 136 | (42) | |||||||||||||
2021 | → Swansea City (loan) | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||||
National team‡ | ||||||||||||||||
2013 | United States U20 | 3 | (1) | |||||||||||||
2014–2016 | United States U23 | 13 | (6) | |||||||||||||
2014– | United States | 49 | (11) | |||||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of October 9, 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of September 23, 2022 |
Morris won the Hermann Trophy in his senior season at Stanford and was called up to the United States national team, scoring in a friendly against Mexico. He signed for Seattle's senior team in 2016 as a Homegrown Player.
Morris, from Mercer Island, Washington, began his youth career with Eastside FC, where he played from 2004 to 2012, from U11 to U17, with the Eastside FC B94 Red team, coached by Dan Strom, and helped the team to six of its seven Washington State titles as well as two third-place finishes at the US Youth Soccer National Championships in 2011 and 2012: he was named to the Best XI in 2011, and was the Golden Ball winner in 2012. Morris was also named NSCAA Washington State Player of the Year and NSCAA High School All-American in 2012.[2]
He joined the Sounders FC youth academy and played in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy for one season.[3]
On February 6, 2012, Morris signed a letter of intent to play college soccer at Stanford University.[4][5]
In his freshman year with the Cardinal, Morris appeared in all 21 matches and led all Pac-12 freshman with seven assists and 19 points and tied for the lead with six goals and helped lead his team to their first NCAA Tournament since 2009[6] where they would eventually fall 1–0 to #2 seed Washington in the Round of 16.[7] He went on to be named first team All-Pac-12 that year.[8] Morris also spent time with Seattle Sounders FC U-23 in the Premier Development League.[9] In his sophomore year, Morris helped lead Stanford to its first Pac-12 championship since 2001.[10]
In his junior year, Morris scored 13 goals and had 3 assists. He led the Cardinal to both the Pac-12 and the NCAA Championships. In the NCAA tournament, Morris scored 5 of Stanford's total of 12 goals. In the championship game against Clemson, Morris scored his first of two goals in the game only 87 seconds into the contest.[11] On January 8, 2016, Morris was awarded the Hermann Trophy as the best player in NCAA Division I soccer.[12]
In January 2016, Morris trained with German club Werder Bremen at their winter camp, which Bremen chief executive Thomas Eichin described as "an opportunity for us to get to know the player better." Later in January, Bremen extended Morris' trial who then played in a friendly match against Inter Baku PIK and recorded an assist.[13][14] Bremen offered a contract to Morris and Eichin expressed confidence that they would sign him, but Morris turned down the German club's offer in favor of returning to play in the United States.[15][16][17]
After winning the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship, there was speculation that Morris would begin to play professionally. Coach Jürgen Klinsmann stated that Morris "obviously has to" turn pro.[18] On January 5, 2016, Morris announced he decided to forgo his senior season at Stanford to turn pro. It was widely speculated that Morris would sign with the Sounders, the club for which his father works, and also holds his amateur rights.[19] On January 21, 2016, Morris signed with Seattle Sounders FC, being given MLS's highest-ever Homegrown Player contract worth roughly $250,000 a year.[20][21] He joined the Sounders' preseason training camp in Arizona, debuting in a friendly against Celaya F.C. on February 9, 2016.[22] On February 23, 2016, Morris made his professional debut against Club América in the CONCACAF Champions League, starting the match.[23] The following week, he debuted in the Sounders' first Major League Soccer game of the season against Sporting Kansas City.[24]
Morris scored his first Major League Soccer goal for the Sounders on April 16, 2016, against the Philadelphia Union.[25] He then went on to score in his next three consecutive games, matching the Seattle rookie scoring record, his next goal then surpassed the rookie goalscoring record which had been set by Steve Zakuani in 2009.[26] He has since helped his team to win the MLS Cup after a run from ninth place into fourth, along with the help of Nicolas Lodeiro, a new midseason acquisition made by Seattle.
On February 22, 2018, while playing in El Salvador against Santa Tecla in the Sounders' first match of the 2018 CONCACAF Champions League, Morris collapsed untouched in the 85th minute with a torn ACL.[27] He was reported to likely miss 6–9 months.[28] After missing the entirety of the 2018 MLS season, Morris was signed to a five-year contract extension with the Sounders in December 2018.[21]
Morris returned for the 2019 season and scored 10 goals during the regular season and a hat-trick in the playoffs to help the Sounders win a second MLS Cup title. He was named MLS Comeback Player of the Year for his recovery.[29]
On January 22, 2021, Swansea City announced that they had signed Morris on a loan for the remainder of the 2020–21 EFL Championship season.[30] He made his debut on January 30 as a substitute against Rotherham United.[31] During a match against Huddersfield Town on February 20, Morris suffered an ACL injury to his left knee and was stretchered off in the 66th minute. The injury forced him to miss the rest of the Swansea City season as well as national team fixtures.[32] As a result, his loan stint was prematurely terminated.
In May 2013, Morris was one of 22 players named to the U.S. under-20 squad for the Toulon Tournament where he made three appearances.[33] He also made appearances for the U.S. under-23 national team on August 6, 2014, and scored in a 5–1 win over Barbados.[34]
On August 28, 2014, Morris received his first senior call up to the U.S. men's national team for a friendly against the Czech Republic, making him the first college player to be called into squad since Chris Albright was called up in 1999 while he was still playing at the University of Virginia.[35][36] Although he was left on the bench for that match, he made his international debut in November in a 4–1 defeat to Ireland.[37]
On April 15, 2015, he scored his first U.S. men's national team goal against Mexico in an international friendly.[38] In the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final, Morris scored the winning goal for the United States, assuring a victory over Jamaica and becoming joint top scorer of the tournament with three goals.[39]
On January 21, 2022, Morris received his first World Cup Qualifying call up since September 2017 after a lengthy injury recovery.[40]
Morris was born in Seattle, Washington, to Michael and Leslie Morris. His father, Dr. Michael Morris, is the chief medical director of Seattle Sounders FC.[41] He has three siblings named Christopher, Julian and Talia.[42] He attended Mercer Island High School, where he played high school soccer prior to joining the Sounders Academy.[43]
Morris was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of nine and is one of the few professional athletes with the condition to play. He said that having diabetes has helped shape him. His tattoo "T1D" on his inner arm is a tribute to the armband people with diabetes have to wear.[44][45]
Club | Season | League | National cup[lower-alpha 1] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Seattle Sounders FC | 2016 | MLS | 34 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 6[lower-alpha 3] | 2 | 44 | 14 |
2017 | MLS | 23 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | 2[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 25 | 3 | ||
2018 | MLS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||
2019 | MLS | 26 | 10 | 0 | 0 | — | 4[lower-alpha 3] | 3 | 30 | 13 | ||
2020 | MLS | 22[lower-alpha 4] | 10 | — | 2[lower-alpha 2] | 1 | 5[lower-alpha 5] | 1 | 29 | 12 | ||
2021 | MLS | 2 | 0 | — | — | 1[lower-alpha 3] | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
2022 | MLS | 29 | 7 | — | 8[lower-alpha 2] | 3 | — | 37 | 10 | |||
Total | 136 | 42 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 169 | 52 | ||
Swansea City (loan) | 2020–21 | Championship | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 5 | 0 | ||
Career total | 140 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 18 | 6 | 174 | 52 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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United States | 2014 | 1 | 0 |
2015 | 6 | 1 | |
2016 | 5 | 0 | |
2017 | 12 | 4 | |
2018 | 1 | 0 | |
2019 | 14 | 5 | |
2021 | 1 | 0 | |
2022 | 9 | 1 | |
Total | 49 | 11 |
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | April 15, 2015 | Alamodome, San Antonio, United States | Mexico | 1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
2 | February 3, 2017 | Finley Stadium, Chattanooga, United States | Jamaica | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
3 | July 12, 2017 | Raymond James Stadium, Tampa, United States | Martinique | 2–0 | 3–2 | 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup |
4 | 3–2 | |||||
5 | July 26, 2017 | Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, United States | Jamaica | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup Final |
6 | September 10, 2019 | Busch Stadium, St. Louis, United States | Uruguay | 1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
7 | October 11, 2019 | Audi Field, Washington, D.C., United States | Cuba | 3–0 | 7–0 | 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League A |
8 | November 15, 2019 | Exploria Stadium, Orlando, United States | Canada | 1–0 | 4–1 | 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League A |
9 | November 19, 2019 | Truman Bodden Sports Complex, George Town, Cayman Islands | Cuba | 2–0 | 4–0 | 2019–20 CONCACAF Nations League A |
10 | 3–0 | |||||
11 | June 14, 2022 | Estadio Cuscatlán, San Salvador, El Salvador | El Salvador | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2022–23 CONCACAF Nations League A |
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