Memorable moment: Marta magic

As a universe of football depends down to a exhibit of a FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019 central button and aphorism – in Paris on 19 Sep – we are counting down a 10 Most Memorable Moments in FIFA Women’s World Cup history.

The background
There was no jealous a star of a uncover on 27 Sep 2007 during a Dragon Stadium in Hangzhou, as Brazil took on USA in a semi-final of a FIFA Women’s World Cup China™. And not for a initial time, it was Brazilian fable Marta who took all a plaudits. Every time a round arrived during her feet, a striker had a throng on a corner of their seats, concerned to see what sorcery she would conjure adult next.

Why so special?
One of her ‘victims’ that evening, Carli Lloyd, looked behind during a opening of a opposition’s No10: “She lifted a stadium, all on her own”. And it was not usually since of a dual goals that helped her side to a 4-0 victory, during a time a heaviest better ever suffered by a American inhabitant team. Marta treated those benefaction to her full repertoire of dribbles, bursts of speed, apt touches and interplay. And she even scored in samba character – utterly literally! – as she left a infirm Tina Ellertson in a spin and weaved by a counterclaim to nick A Seleção’s fourth goal. Marta’s opening on a night was a football masterclass, and one that bears examination again and again. What’s more, it saw a Brazilians by to a initial World Cup Final in their history.

What she said
“My favourite Women’s World Cup memory is from 2007, when we kick a United States in a semi-final. we cruise that compare was not usually my best impulse as a footballer, though also a Brazilian team’s best impulse during a World Cup. On that night, we scored what we cruise to be a best idea of my career [Editor’s note – a fourth goal]. So it unequivocally is a ideal memory.”

Relive Marta’s idea on video, and click here for some-more on this ancestral moment.

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