Brazilian ahead Marta has received an inaugural award that’s named after herself. The FIFA Marta Award was launched to The Greatest FIFA Soccer Awards this 12 months with a view to recognise the very best aim in ladies’s soccer.
The award is much like the FIFA Puskas Award, for the very best aim in males’s soccer, which was won by Alejandro Garnacho this year for his bicycle kick against Everton in November 2023.
Final night time 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 in opposition to Jamaica
Marta’s award-winning aim was a stunning solo strike against Jamaica in June of this year. 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 through 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 Pleasure within the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League since 2017, however received her award for a aim while enjoying for a nationwide aspect.
Marta has a whopping 119 objectives for Brazil and can also be the Girls’s World Cup all-time prime aim 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 curler against West Ham in November 2023.