Albuquerque Journal

Morgan apologizes for the incident at Disney World

- BY ILIANA LIMON ROMERO ORLANDO SENTINEL

Alex Morgan apologized for a Disney World spat that led to her and some Orlando City Soccer Club players being booted from Epcot Sunday.

Morgan was described as “highly impaired” and shouted she knew the Orlando SWAT team when Orange County sheriff’s deputies tried to escort her and a group of others away from the park Sunday, according to an incident report released Tuesday.

Morgan posted on her Twitter account Wednesday, “I want to apologize for my actions that occurred over the weekend. I will learn from this make sure it does not happen again. (Hashtag) live and learn.”

Morgan and Orlando City players Donny Toia and Giles Barnes were among six people listed on an Orange County Sheriff’s Office incident report documentin­g why they were escorted of the park and accused of trespass.

No charges were filed in connection with the incident after the players and their friends left the park.

Orlando Pride coach Tom Sermanni deferred to Orlando City SC for an official response during a National Women’s Soccer League conference call, but he did say he didn’t think the incident was a major issue and expected Morgan to play as usual Saturday during the Pride’s semifinal match on the road against Portland.

Morgan, Toia and his wife, Courtney, were escorted out after meeting with deputies and accused of trespass. Barnes also was given a trespass warning, according to the report. The other two people are listed on the report as witnesses.

According to the Orange County incident report, Epcot managers called deputies to trespass several individual­s who were “impaired and verbally aggressive.”

Barnes cut in front of another guest inside the U.K. pub and they later got into a verbal argument, the report says. He used curse words and was escorted out of the pub to be trespassed. As he was being taken out, the deputies were called back to help with other individual­s.

The incident report described difficulty escorting Morgan, Donny Toia and Toia’s wife to a conference room and recalled them “being belligeren­t, with screaming and yelling” once inside the room.

All three were eventually escorted out of the park.

Orlando City is idle during the internatio­nal break and players were given four days off from training, with the team likely to resume training Thursday or Friday. A club spokesman said Tuesday that officials were reviewing the incident.

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