![]() That’s a huge increase from 1971, when three international teams played just two matches – by 2011 there were 129 teams playing 514 games.īut while the women’s game has grown in the U.S. Read: London 2012 changed everything and nothingĪccording to the latest figures published by FIFA, the world’s governing body, 29 million women and girls play football worldwide. While women’s football has struggled to gain its share of the limelight in Brazil, the sport is booming across the globe. ![]() There’s still a percentage that thinks like in the old days.”įootball in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport even with a lot of people accepting the female sport. “Football in Brazil is seen as a masculine sport, even with a lot of people accepting the female sport. Women have shown they have capabilities in every sense better than men a lot of time, but it’s that whole macho thing. “Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don’t have the ability and aren’t strong enough. “There’s still prejudice and that resistance regarding women not only on female football but in various activities. “I think it has changed a bit but that mentality still exists,” she said. On the club front, the UEFA European Women’s Champions League has been gaining in popularity since its inception in 2001.Īnd yet still Marta believes that attitudes towards women within football have remained stuck in the past. Three years later, over 90,000 people were packed into the Pasadena Rose Bowl, California, for the 1999 World Cup as the U.S. Like Marta, women’s football has come a long way too since it held its debut at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, where nearly 80,000 watched the U.S. And that’s what we’ve been striving for, isn’t it? The ability to make our announcements without hesitation or fear and to be celebrated and loved the same as anyone else.”Ĭongratulations, Marta and Toni from all of us at Outsports!įollow Marta on Instagram by clicking here, and for her fianceé Toni Deion Pressley click here.Not bad for a girl who grew up in Dois Riachos, playing football on the streets against boys twice her size and without any formative coaching until the age of 14.įast forward to 2013, and the 27-year-old is one of the most recognizable faces in the sport, starring for Swedish side Tyresö FF in Stockholm. Some players still do today, but you get the sense that more and more, it’s coming from a simple desire to remain private rather than out of fear. The years when LGBTQ female players went to such great lengths to obscure their identities to the point where even privately whispering about it between individuals felt hushed and taboo - those years grow increasingly distant. Marta’s own NT teammate Cristiane got married and is having a baby with her partner. ![]() Players are kissing their girlfriends in the stands during World Cups in front of hundreds of cameras. “But as more players have come out, the landscape has changed. Players stay in the closet for a variety of reasons, a lot of them societal and systemic.” women’s national team stars Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris, who married one another one year ago.Īs SB Nation’s Stephanie Yang wrote in All For XI, “It feels like this would have been unimaginable ten, maybe even five, years ago. Once married, Marta and Pressley will become the second lawfully wedded couple currently playing on the Orlando Pride, joining the U.S. Both Marta and Pressley play together for the NWSL’s Orlando Pride, which recently welcomed back Pressley after she overcame her breast cancer diagnosis last year. A post shared by martavsilva10 is widely considered one of the greatest soccer players of all time, and last year she became the first player - man or woman - to score in five different FIFA World Cups.
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