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Who is Marta?
Like so many other great Brazilian players, Marta Vieira Da Silva needs only one name. To Brazilians, she is simply Marta, one of the best women soccer players ever. Thrice voted FIFA World Player of the year (2006, 2007, 2008), she was a member of the Brazilian National Teams that won the silver at the Olympics in 2004 and 2008. In the 2007 Women’s World Cup, she won both the Golden Ball award as the best player and the Golden Boot award as the top scorer.
Wins by Country for the Women’s World Cup
Country Wins
Germany 2 United States 2 Norway 1Why did Maribel Dominguez’s childhood friends call her Mario?
Growing up in Mexico city, Maribel Dominguez was surrounded by streets filled with boys playing soccer. Wanting to join in, she pretended to be a boy herself. She had the thin physique to pass, and kept her hair short. It wasn’t until her friends saw in the newspaper that their chum “Mario” had made it onto the Mexican sub-national women’s team that the penny dropped. She went on to eventually captain the senior Mexican women’s team and was top goal scorer for them at the 2004 Olympics.