![]() ![]() ![]() While women’s football has struggled to gain its share of the limelight in Brazil, the sport is booming across the globe. There’s still a percentage that thinks like in the old days.”įootball in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport even with a lot of people accepting the female sport. “Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport. Women have shown they have capabilities in every sense better than men a lot of time, but it’s that whole macho thing. “Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don’t have the ability and aren’t strong enough. “There’s still prejudice and that resistance regarding women not only on female football but in various activities. “I think it has changed a bit but that mentality still exists,” she said. On the club front, the UEFA European Women’s Champions League has been gaining in popularity since its inception in 2001.Īnd yet still Marta believes that attitudes towards women within football have remained stuck in the past. Three years later, over 90,000 people were packed into the Pasadena Rose Bowl, California, for the 1999 World Cup as the U.S. Like Marta, women’s football has come a long way too since it held its debut at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where nearly 80,000 watched the U.S. Today, despite the disparidade salarial (wage gap) in relation to male players, she still se destaca (stands out) and was the only female player honored in the largest stadium in Brazil, Maracanã.Not bad for a girl who grew up in Dois Riachos, playing football on the streets against boys twice her size and without any formative coaching until the age of 14.įast forward to 2013, and the 27-year-old is one of the most recognizable faces in the sport, starring for Swedish side Tyresö FF in Stockholm. This is another fight Marta has been leading against preconceito (prejudice) since her infância (childhood), when people thought she was weird or even scolded her because they thought a woman should not be playing soccer. With each goal and celebration in the World Cup, her feet go up in the air and she flashes the logo, reminding everyone of her reivindicação (claim). Instead of the sponsor’s logo, she bears the symbol of the “Go Equal” movement, which fights for equidade de gênero (gender equity). Just so you have an idea, the amount spent with Neymar’s season is 91.5 million euros, while Marta received only 340 thousand euros, less than 1% of her fellow countryman’s pay. She recently declined um patrocínio (a sponsorship deal) because her value was much lower than the salaries offered to male players. Despite having achieved this historic record, Marta has used the world tournament as a platform to lutar contra (fight against) gender inequality in the soccer market. With 17 goals scored during the tournaments she was in, she is the leading artilheira (top scorer) in the history of the World Cup, overrunning stars like the Polish Miroslav Klose (16 goals) and Brazilian Ronaldo “Phenomenon” (15 goals). Today, she is considered the best soccer player of all time and was voted six times as the a melhor jogadora do mundo (best player in the world) by FIFA.Īs if that was not enough, last Tuesday (June 6), Marta earned an unprecedented título (title). She often skipped school to play with boys or even face her Physical Education teachers who did not let her practice it. Born in a small town in the Brazilian sertão (backlands), Marta had to “dribble” her family that tried to keep her from jogar (playing) soccer. If you’ve been keeping up with the Women’s World Cup, you’re probably already familiar with Marta. O Brasil perde nos pênaltis e vai disputar o bronze (Fernando Frazão_Agência Brasil) Seleção brasileira de futebol feminino disputa semifinal com a Suécia, no Maracanã. ![]()
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