Brazilian ahead Marta has received an inaugural award that’s named after herself. The FIFA Marta Award was launched to The Finest FIFA Soccer Awards this yr with a purpose to recognise the most effective purpose in ladies’s soccer.
The award is just like the FIFA Puskas Award, for the most effective purpose in males’s soccer, which was received by Alejandro Garnacho this yr for his bicycle kick towards Everton in November 2023.
Final night time at The Finest 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
Brazil’s ladies Olympics 2024 squad celebrating Marta’s purpose (Picture credit score: Getty Photographs)
Marta’s award-winning purpose was a gorgeous solo strike towards Jamaica in June of this yr. The Brazilian took the ball down neatly, rounded a participant with a wise 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 through which Brazil have been defeated 1-0 by USA.
The Brazilian ahead has performed for Orland Pleasure within the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League since 2017, however received her award for a purpose while enjoying for a nationwide aspect.
Marta has a whopping 119 targets for Brazil and can be the Girls’s World Cup all-time prime purpose scorer with 17 targets.
Marta’s strike was voted for by followers and pundits alike, beating 10 different targets to the award.
Amongst the opposite strikes was Beth Mead’s roller towards West Ham in November 2023.
