U.S. soccer star Alex Morgan will be the first woman to appear on a FIFA video game cover

Alex Morgan FIFA 2016
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The triumph of the U.S. women's national soccer team continues.

For the first time in its 22-year history, FIFA the video game will feature a woman on its cover — and that woman is Alex Morgan, forward for the world champion U.S. women's soccer team. Behold:

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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.