Women's Football Legend: Marta Vieira da Silva

Marta was born on the 19th of February 1986 in Dois Riachos, Brazil. Marta is widely considered the greatest female footballer ever. She has won the FIFA World Player of the Year award six times from 2006-2010 and 2018. At her first Women's World Cup in 2003 she was 17 years old. It was Brazil vs South Korea and 14 minutes into the match she scored a penalty for Brazil. The game finished 3-0 with two other goals from Kátia Cilene Teixeira da Silva. 

This is what Marta said in a press conference ahead of her side's match with Jamaica: "When I started playing, I didn't have an idol, a female idol. You guys didn't show any female games. How was I supposed to see other players? . . Today, when we go out on the street, people stop. The parents stop and say, Oh my daughter loves you, she wants to be just like you. . . This wouldn't have happened if we had stopped at the first obstacles we faced. So it's a continuous persistency and it didn't just start with me, but with a lot of women back then. But we are all very proud and we ask a lot of our generation to continue to do that, to inspire more girls, more boys".