Battling conventions and misogyny off the pitch while transforming perceptions on it, Marta’s skill and emotive cries helped revolutionise women’s football
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This feature is part of Virtuoso After the game against Czechoslovakia in the group stages of the 1970 World Cup, when he audaciously tried to chip opposing goalkeeper Viktor from the halfway…
PELÉ, RONALDO, SÓCRATES, GARRINCHA: Brazil has had its fair share of legends, players so great a nickname in Portuguese is enough to identify them the world over. But there’s another who sits as equal…