It's no secret here at Futbolita that we consider Brazil's Marta to be the greatest female footballer of all time. In the words of our great mates, "She's a legend!" and really, you haven't much of a case against a five-time Ballon D'or Champion!
The word 'awkward' does not exist in the Brazilian dictionary, which is why everyone from Marta to Bebeto and Ronaldo legends of the game were more than happy to pose with the official Brazil 2014 Poster at an event yesterday.
Japan, the 2011 Women's World Cup champ, plays Brazil at noon ET on NBCSN and inhabit on
NBCOlympics.com in the Matchup Spotlight of the tomorrow. Vote nowadays to say us who you consider
will romp.
Its Monday 30th July 2012 4 days into the Olympics and the Spanish football team already going
home, 1 more match then nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah hheeeeyyeeyyy goodbye!!! That actually
ruined the beginning of this blog as I started writing yesterday that Spain lost their 1st match at
the World 1-0 [.
Marta is affect something dissimilar this clip. She can say by the manner her teammates are acting.
She can tell by how she is acting. This clip, she and her teammates are converted affairs won't go
wrong.
Brazil expressions New Zealand in Group E charwomen's soccer thing. Brazil and Marta trounce
Cameroon 5-0 on Wednesday, while New Zealand fell 1-0 to emcees Great Britain and hope to recoil
against the Brazilians.
Great Britain 1 0 New Zealand Stephanie Houghton at 64 minutes Cameroon 0 5 Brazil 7 mins
Francielle 11 mins R. Costa 73 mins Marta (penalty.) 80 mins Cristiane 88 mins
Marta
Lauren Sesselmann (Green Bay Notre Dame) and the Canadian women's national team
lost to Brazil 2-1 on a last-second goal Tuesday in their final warmup match before the London
Olympics.
It was a wild finish to the Match world Women's Cup in Savièse, Switzerland. Canada seemingly
forced penalty kicks on Christine Sinclair's equalizer deep into stoppage time,
but the Brazilians raced down the field after the restart and Grazielle poked in a
cross from five-time reigning women's world player of the year Marta to win
it.
Hay momentos en la vida de un hombre que no se olvidan,que marcan a millones, que se esperan a
veces cada cuatro años, a veces toda una vida.
Para unos pocos de entre millones la oportunidad de ser llevados a la victoria y recibir en su cara
las mieles de la victoria es minima. Uno de los elegidos para tocar la copa de la vida, la copa
mundial y alzarla como campeón del mundo es Marcos Evangelista de Moraes mejor conocido
como Cafu lo hizo para su país en el 2002.
"I'd rather be at Michel Telo's next concert than sit here answering your questions. By the way,
what colour does my hair look like under the light?" - Brazil's Marta at the FIFA Ballon d'Or
earlier last month!
It's Friday our Women's Football Day! This week, read on as the women's football elite trio of Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Marta dish out valuable and inspiring life advice to young women as part of the FIFA 'Live Your Goals' campaign. Vamos, chicas!
"Any young women out there that want to live their goals, I would personally tell them to challenge themselves and to do something that scares them every single day.
Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan (seen above) and Hope Solo were the Futbolitas representin' at the FIFA Ballon d'Or last night. USA women's team captain Wambach also admitted that she was surprised to receive the award from her own teammate, Hope Solo, as she had expected Morgan to pick it up instead.
U.S. WNT FORWARD ABBY WAMBACH NAMED FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD PLAYER OF THE YEAR; PIA SUNDHAGE NAMED WORLD COACH OF THE YEAR FOR WOMEN'S SOCCER Alex Morgan Voted Third in Women's World Player of the Year Voting; Wambach's Honor Marks Third Time American Woman Named World Player of the Year Following Mia Hamm's 2001 and 2002 Selections CHICAGO (Jan.
Announced whenever (or yesterday, I think), here's FIFA's short shorts...uh, short LIST of women footballers for this year's big award: Camille Abily (France), Miho Fukumoto (Japan), Carli Lloyd (USA), Marta (Brazil), Aya Miyama (Japan), Alex Morgan (USA), Megan Rapinoe (USA), Homare Sawa (Japan), Christine Sinclair (Canada), Abby Wambach (USA).
If you've wondered what Alex Morgan has playing on her iPod or what music Megan Rapinoe dances to in the locker room, wonder no more. How about what Swedish National Team Captain, Caroline Seger, is blasting in her headphones? Or what five-time FIFA world player of the year, Marta, sings along to in the car [.
The US women kick off their quest for medals next Wednesday against France. Games follow against
Colombia and North Korea. Team USA has played in every Olympic final since 1996, hanging gold
around their necks on all but one occasion, says writer Alan Black.
She was recently in the running to pick up the FIFA Women's Ballon D'or award,
but although it was teammate Abby Wambach who ended up in the top three (with
Homare Sawa and Marta), USA goalkeeper Hope Solo
still treasures her Golden Glove for an outstanding performance at the Women's
World Cup.
Que triste! It isn't a good week for fans of the US Women's Professional Soccer (WPS)
league. The board announced it would be "suspending play" this year due to complex legal issues
involving a former club owner. This matters because some of the world's best female players ply
their trade there including Abby Wambach,Marta, Alex Morgan and
Hope Solo.
U.S. head coach Pia Sundhage, forward Abby Wambach and goalkeeper Hope Solo have arrived in
training camp after attending the annual FIFA Awards Gala in Zurich, Switzerland on Monday
night.
Sundhage finished second in the voting for FIFA Women's World Cup of the Year and Wambach finished
third in the voting for FIFA Women's World Player of the Year behind Marta of Brazil and winner
Homare Sawa.
Sawa potentially begins her Ballon d'Or reign as Messi continues his own, picking up his third
in as many years.
If history is anything to go by, expect 2011 Women's World Cup winner Homare Sawa to be
collecting her second Ballon d'Or prize this time next year. Marta had won five years running as
the top female player in the world, but no more.
Japanese World Cup winner Homare Sawa beat out a strong field that included Brazilian Marta and
Abby Wambach to win the FIFA Women's World Player of the year 2011.
Marta who was looking to win the award for a 6th consecutive time had to contend with a second
place finish while Abby Wambach of the USA came in in third place.
Having faced uncertainty about its future in recent weeks and months, WPS appears to have
avoided doomsday. At least for now.
WPS reportedly received conditional Division 1 sanctioning for 2012 from U.S. Soccer's board of
directors on Monday evening despite it only having five teams and the minimum for Division I status
typically being eight.
Will this be the year that Marta will be dethroned as FIFA's women's world player of the year?
The Brazilian striker has won the award for the past five years and was among the 10 players
nominated for the 2011 award.
The United States has three players on the list all of whom played for the WNT at last
summer's Women's World Cup in Germany.
Danny Mwanga is back and healthy for the playoffs. Nice timing, Danny!
The Shin Guardian gives the Union 7 to 1 odds at winning the MLS Cup. That puts the Union as
the 4th most likely team to win, behind Seattle, LA and Real Salt Lake.
Uma das coqueluches deste blog - responsável por um dos posts com maior número de visualizações (3.837) – mudou nesta época de clube. A espanhola Ana Buceta transferiu-se do El Olivo, onde foi uma das melhores apesar da despromoção da equipa da Iª Divisão, para o Levante, onde está a ter um excelente desempenho.
En la actualidad, aproximadamente 30 millones de mujeres juegan al futbol en todo el mundo. Es el deporte más popular entre el género femenino y se juega en todos los rincones del planeta. México no es la excepción. Lo que si me parece excepcional es lo poco que se sabe sobre el mismo.
Despite their 0-1 loss to a resilient Great Britain Olympic side yesterday, the
'selecao feminina' (Brasil women's team) have made it to the
quarter-finals of the Women's Football tournament. However, the task will not be any easier as they
will face current World Champions, Japan.
In what could be a seminal moment for women's football in the UK, a crowd of over 70,000 saw
Team GB take on and beat the mighty Brazil by a 1-0 scoreline, a result that sees Hope Powell's
side top Group E (with three wins out of three) and face Canada in the knockout stages.
Look for the Philly Soccer Show podcast with guest Sebastien Le Toux later this
morning.
Philadelphia Union
The Union had a live feed of Peter Nowak's weekly press conference on Wednesday on the club
website, which is the first time that's happened as far as I can remember.
Peter Nowak says, "I think we have been working on some really good stuff in Florida. Now it's
just a matter of improving. Now it's working on fitness, formations and getting guys ready for the
season. Because of the Olympic qualifiers, it's kind of hard to determine what our set lineup with
will be.
Chesterfield United Soccer Club has expanded south and are looking to make a big splash in the Tri Cities. Over the last two years, Chesterfield United has experienced phenomenal, climbing from 25 to 38 travel teams in the space of just 2 years as well as increasing their UDP program numbers from 2 to 200 annually.
Por fin sabemos quienes son las tres finalistas que entrarán por la contienda del Balón de Oro, pues FIFA acaba de dar a conocer a un trio de jugadoras de talla mundial. Se trata de la infaltable Marta, quién ya posee cinco galardones, Abby Wambach, una de las máximas goleadoras del futbol femenil y Alex Morgan, una joven figura que ha sabido brillar, ser mediáica y volverse indispensable en cuanta escuadra juega.
Tal parece que la Federación Brasileña de Futbol está haciendo una reestructuración en varias de sus categorías, pues la selección femenina se suma a la varonil, estrenando mando.
Jorge Barcellos presentó su renuncia luego de no cumplir con el objetivo de subirse al podio en los Juegos Olímpicos de 2012, en donde las brasileñas comandadas por Marta y Cristiane, no pudieron colarse entre los mejores equipos del torneo.
Colombia frontwards Yoreli Rincon is a lifting virtuoso in womanhoods's football, so full that many
have started naming her the "New Marta."And yet she hasn't played a Min so far in Colombia's two
grouping-stage exits at the Olympics and many fans back home are enquiring why.
Believe it or not, not every girl is a damsel in distress looking for Prince Charming. The days
when girls were expected to play with dolls, wear pink dresses, have perfect hair, and be quiet and
clean are long gone. For many girls, role models aren't delicate princesses but kick-butt women
who surf twenty- foot waves, dunk basketballs, sail off vert ramps, hit homeruns, beat guys on the
motor track and more.
The decision to suspend the 2012 WPS season drove Marta to join Tyreso in Sweden's
Damallsvenskan in February. Marta scored 111 goals in 103 matches with Umea before moving to
America, so the Swedes are already very familiar with her talents, but, as you might've guessed,
she's wasted no time in giving them another glimpse of her brilliance.
El día 8 de Marzo se llevó a cabo en la Ciudad de México el evento mundial adidas
Training Academy para representantes de los medios de comunicación.
Periodistas y bloggers de diferentes partes del mundo tendrían la oportunidad de vivir en un
día la experiencia de entrenar con embajadores mundiales de la marca adidas.
As 2011 comes to a close, 2012 will be a big year for the USA's youth women's national teams as
both the Under-17s and Under-20s prepare for regional qualifying for their respective FIFA Women's
World Cups, which will be held toward the end of the year after the Olympics.
