--- title: Sepp Blatter Files: Alex Morgan Goes Unrecognized At FIFA Event description: Morgan calls Blatter's failure to recognize her at FIFA World Player of the Year event "shocking" canonical: https://time.com/3893949/sepp-blatter-alex-morgan/ author: Sean Gregory article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-22T17:19:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:34:01.957Z article:section: Sports og:title: Sepp Blatter Files: Alex Morgan Goes Unrecognized At FIFA Event og:description: Morgan calls Blatter's failure to recognize her at FIFA World Player of the Year event "shocking" og:url: https://time.com/3893949/sepp-blatter-alex-morgan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt626df71cc001711d/6988515ce53aba394d4ddd76/alex-morgan-sepp-blatter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: FIFA president Joseph S. Blatter, Alex Morgan and French actor Gerard Depardieu during the red carpet arrivals at the FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala 2012 at the Kongresshaus on Jan. 7, 2013 in Zurich. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sepp Blatter Files: Alex Morgan Goes Unrecognized At FIFA Event twitter:description: Morgan calls Blatter's failure to recognize her at FIFA World Player of the Year event "shocking" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt626df71cc001711d/6988515ce53aba394d4ddd76/alex-morgan-sepp-blatter.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Soccer Star Alex Morgan: Sepp Blatter Didn't Know Who I Was > Sponsored content. Supplied in partnership with Ally. 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Blatter, Alex Morgan and French actor Gerard Depardieu during the red carpet arrivals at the 2012 FIFA Ballon d'Or Gala in Zurich.Alexander Hassenstein—FIFA via Getty Images  by [Sean Gregory](https://time.com/author/sean-gregory/)  ## Sean Gregory Senior Correspondent May 22, 2015 5:19 PM UTC Controversial FIFA president Sepp Blatter, whose tenure atop world soccer’s governing body has been pockmarked by [scandal](http://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2015/05/22/fifa-scandals-while-sepp-blatter-has-been-president), recently called himself [“a godfather”](http://www.si.com/planet-futbol/2015/05/07/sepp-blatter-womens-soccer-godfather) of women’s soccer. That’s particularly amusing, considering that a group of top women’s players recently sued FIFA for gender discrimination. And that U.S. star Alex Morgan–who has nearly 1.7 million Twitter followers, tops among women soccer players–says she once went unrecognized by Blatter at an event honoring the world’s top players. In an interview with TIME, Morgan was asked if she’s had to deal with sexism and misogyny. “I have experienced sexism multiple times, and I’m sure I will a lot more,” she said. “I feel like I’m fighting for female athletes. At the FIFA World Player of the Year event \[in 2012\], FIFA executives and FIFA president Sepp Blatter didn’t know who I was. And I was being honored as top three in the world. That was pretty shocking.” The women sued FIFA and the Canadian Soccer Association because the upcoming World Cup, which kicks off June 6, is being contested on artificial turf. Many players detest this surface, saying it leads to more injuries, and disrupts the tempo of the game. No men’s World Cup has even been played on turf. The players dropped the complaint in January. Their attorney said they wanted to shift the focus from the controversy to World Cup preparation. Morgan’s full interview — _10 Questions With Alex Morgan_ — appears in the June 1 edition of TIME, on newsstands now. Subscribers can read it [here](http://time.com/3892038/10-questions-with-alex-morgan/). Subscribe to TIME [here.](http://on.time.com/storefront/subscribe-to-time/site/td-srs52for400215.html?fpa%5Fcrid=27124460774&fpa%5FsiteName=cm.tim&fpa%5FdartType=tout&link=1019511&fpa%5Foc=TIME.com+Gated+Placements+05%2F15&fpa%5Fadid=113366894&fpa%5Fch=sports&fpa%5FdartPosition=subscribeabv) FIFA’s presidential election is May 29; [Blatter](http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-sepp-blatter-fifa/) is running for a fifth term. 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