In 2011, after a teenage Neymar played with her in a charity match, he called her “the best in the world". During the 2007 World Cup, Pele said Marta was “Pele with a skirt". It is a peculiar situation: While her country cares little about women’s football, Marta herself is highly popular in Brazil for her playing skills. She has played for eight professional teams in her career, seven of which went defunct. The 23-year-old helped Barcelona win the Champions League and the Spanish cup and the league this season, after helping drive host Brazil to the semi-finals of last year’s world cup before missing that match-a 7-1 drubbing by eventual champion Germany-with an injury.Īnd while Neymar is now one of football’s biggest success stories, Marta has hopped from one team to another around the world, trying to find a steady gig. Neymar moved to Barcelona in May 2013 for what the Spanish team said was €57 million (around ₹ 410 crore). Her national coach, Oswaldo Fumeiro Alvarez, known as Vadao, says the forward is as important to his team as Barcelona’s Neymar is to the men’s squad. “It’s very difficult when you enter a war: you live or you die." “It’s a war," Marta, whose given name is Marta Vieira da Silva, said in an interview. It’s unclear whether Marta’s disclosed income included her sponsorship deals.īrazil is in a group that includes Spain and Costa Rica, apart from Korea, and is fourth favourite to win the tournament, according to UK bookmaker William Hill, with the US, Germany, and France ahead of them. ![]() That’s about a week’s salary for Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo or Barcelona’s Lionel Messi, the last two men to win Fifa’s player of the year. According to the Swedish tax authority, Marta earned 1.58 million kronor (around ₹ 1.2 crore now) in Sweden in 2013 when she was playing for Tyresoe. ![]() It’s incredible the lack of attention and the need for survival for these ladies."įarah wouldn’t disclose her income. “It’s a big gap from Marta to average players, who are not known. Brazilian players on eastern Europe clubs make much more than Marta without making appearances for the Selecao, as the national team is known. “It’s not close," says her manager, Fabiano Farah, who used to represent Brazil men’s team star Ronaldo. What she isn’t, her agent says, is highly paid. She’s arguably one of the greatest ever in the sport. Marta has also been league champion six times in Sweden, where she plays for Rosengård, and twice in the US.
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