It may solely be her.
Marta received the inaugural FIFA award for finest objective in ladies’s soccer, named after the Brazilian nice.
The 38-year-old obtained the Marta Award at FIFA’s “The Best” awards on Tuesday for her objective for Brazil within the worldwide pleasant towards Jamaica in June.
Before this 12 months, the Puskas Award lined all of soccer, however the determination was made to award it to one of the best objective within the males’s sport – received this 12 months by Manchester United striker Alejandro Garnacho – and to create the brand new Marta Award for the sport feminine.
“To compete towards so many nice gamers, we had some superb objectives,” he mentioned. “This has additionally been a beautiful season. But I’m even happier to obtain an award that bears my title: that is undoubtedly the best honor.”
Marta is broadly thought-about the best footballer of all time and has received the Footballer of the Year award a document six occasions.
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He scored a document 119 objectives for Brazil in 185 appearances for his nation, in six World Cups and 6 Olympics, earlier than retiring from worldwide soccer after the Paris Games, the place Brazil misplaced to the United States within the last .
Marta received the primary NWSL title of her profession final month when the Orlando Pride beat the Washington Spirit 1-0 within the last. He had scored within the semi-final.
Marta was requested the day earlier than the title match if she thought it might be doable to current the award to herself.
“You guys need to resolve, as a result of who votes for one of the best objective of the 12 months? It’s you. It’s the individuals within the public. So it must be actually attention-grabbing, just like the Marta Award goes to Marta!” he mentioned with fun.
The Marta Award was voted on by followers and a jury of FIFA legends.
Associated Press reporting.
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