Meanwhile following the cancellation of the WPS Marta moved back to the Swedish league Damallsvensken in 2012, signing a two-year contract with Tyreso FF, Marta’s contributions to the team won Tyreso FF the Damallsvensken league for the first time as she went on to win her fifth title. Her stint with the American-based team helped them to win the Championship title and also won the Puma Golden Boot award edging out Christine Sinclair. Marta returned to Santos for the second time didn’t also last long, as she went on to join Western New York Flash which was her third Women’s Professional Soccer team in three years. Marta left FC Gold Pride in 2010 as a free agent after the team folded without any headways, which made her return to Santos. Playing for FC Gold, she appeared in all of their 24 games and scored 19 goals which won her the league Most Valuable Player and the Golden Boot for the second year in a row in Women’s Professional Soccer. READ ALSO: Top Ten Female Football Players As At 2005 Till Dateįollowing her return from Santos, Los Angeles Sol ceased operations, and as such her right was made available in the 2010 WPS Dispersal Draft to FC Gold Pride. Sol lost to Sky Blue FC in the final in her first season with the American team before she was loaned back to Brazil with Santos during the off-season on a three-month loan contract, and she went on to help Santos in the Libertadores Feminino final and the Copa do Brazil final. Her move to Umea IK made her achieved a lot with the Swedish giant winning four consecutive Swedish Championships and a European Cup with over 103 appearances and 111 goals from 2004-2008.Īfter her triumph in winning the FIFA World Player of the Year in 2009, Marta moved to Los Angeles Sol in the Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) the USA, on a three-year contract where she won the league, came out as the highest goalscorer with 10 goals and also reached the WPS Championship final with Sol. In the year 2000, Marta started her professional career at Vasco De Gama, thereafter two years later she left for Santa Cruz a very small club in the state of Minas Gerais where she played for over two seasons before going on a move that defines her career in Sweden with Umea IK at the age of 17 or thereabout. Marta as a young lady who is very much in love and interested in the round leather game of football while growing up back in her town Dois Riachos, Alagoas Brazil, as a 14 years old girl was discovered by a Brazilian female coach Helena Pacheco after playing for the CSA Youth Team. She had to hide that she was playing from her brother, who didn’t want her to participate - not because he had anything against her playing, but because he wanted to protect her from bullies. I was the only girl and every time I played I had to try something so that I could be better,” “I played with the boys out on the street without shoes. This even makes many other footballing countries envy the great talents in their team likewise same can be said of the Brazilian women’s team.Īmong the great talent that Brazilian soccer did produce is Marta, a great icon and legend of women’s footballin Brazil and the world, the Brazilian female Pele is no doubt the great flagbearer for Brazil women’s football.Įven despite the harsh environment in terms of giving women football the opportunity to develop a large chunk of women football stars like Daniela, Cristiane, and most importantly Marta has shown to the world that the game of soccer doesn’t only belong to men.Īccording to reports, Marta spoke about her childhood back in North-Eastern Brazil, in the backwater of Dois Riachos where she usually played football with the boys in a state that was synonymous with poverty and illiteracy in Brazil before she went to Vasco De Gama to kick start her career. The Brazilian national team has produced great legends in the mode of Pele, Garrincha, Carrera, Zico, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, and Kaka among many other fantastic footballers that the country also possessed. It is no doubt that Brazil is one of the best and finest football nations on the globe.
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