Brazilian ahead Marta has gained an inaugural award that’s named after herself. The FIFA Marta Award was launched to The Greatest FIFA Soccer Awards this yr to be able to recognise the very best purpose in girls’s soccer.
The award is much like the FIFA Puskas Award, for the very best purpose in males’s soccer, which was gained by Alejandro Garnacho this yr for his bicycle kick towards Everton in November 2023.
Final evening at The Greatest FIFA Soccer Awards ceremony Marta collected the trophy for the accolade that’s, considerably bizarrely, named after herself.
Marta wins Marta Award for strike towards Jamaica
Marta’s award-winning purpose was a beautiful solo strike towards Jamaica in June of this yr. The Brazilian took the ball down neatly, rounded a participant with a sensible stepover and let fly from the sting of the field seeing her strike arrow into the highest nook.
Marta retired from worldwide soccer a couple of weeks later after the 2024 Olympic gold-medal match during which Brazil have been defeated 1-0 by USA.
It needed to be her…Marta wins the first-ever Marta Award! 🇧🇷💫December 17, 2024
The Brazilian ahead has performed for Orland Satisfaction within the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League since 2017, however gained her award for a purpose while taking part in for a nationwide facet.
Marta has a whopping 119 objectives for Brazil and can also be the Girls’s World Cup all-time prime purpose scorer with 17 objectives.
Marta’s strike was voted for by followers and pundits alike, beating 10 different objectives to the award.
Amongst the opposite strikes was Beth Mead’s roller towards West Ham in November 2023.
