ALY WAGNER BIO

FIFA World Cup™ veteran and two-time Olympic gold medalist Aly Wagner is FOX Sports’ lead match analyst for the network’s coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup™ and the U.S Women’s National Team (USWNT).

Wagner made her match analyst debut as part of the network’s coverage of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015™ before becoming lead analyst for the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019™.  During the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018™, Wagner made U.S. English-language television history as the first woman to call a men’s FIFA World Cup™ match. She returned to the World Cup broadcast booth in 2022 as a match analyst with FOX Sports in Qatar.

Playing for the USWNT from 1999 to 2008, she scored 21 goals and recorded 42 assists in 131 international matches. She was a midfielder on the U.S. 2003 and 2007 World Cup squads and the 2004 and 2008 Olympic teams.

Wagner began her professional career in 2003 after being selected as the number-one pick at the Women’s United Soccer Association Draft by the San Diego Spirit. She went on to play for the Boston Breakers, Olympique Lyonnais and Los Angeles Sol.

Wagner was a star player at Santa Clara University, where she earned the Hermann Trophy as the best women’s player in the country. As a junior, Wagner led the Broncos to their first NCAA Championship and scored the game-winner against North Carolina. She also earned an NCAA Top VIII award, an honor handed out to the top eight student-athletes across all NCAA divisions and sports. Wagner earned first-team All-America status as a senior and junior and was honored as the conference’s Freshman of the Year in 1999.

Wagner was born in San Jose, Calif. Her husband, Adam Eyre, played professional soccer with the Miami Fusion and MLS’s New England Revolution. Wagner and Eyre have triplet sons, Griffin, Daeven and Lincoln, and a daughter, Blake.