“Over the course of twenty-one years, Marta wore Brazil’s yellow shirt in 183 games and scored 119 goals, making her Brazil’s top scorer among both men and women. She even surpassed Pelé, Ronaldo, and Zico. She played in six World Cups, but never lifted the World Cup trophy. Too bad for the Cup. The Dois Riachos star produced infinite openings to new universes and inscribed the greatest wealth in our society: the chance to wish. Marta did what she did without being given the right to dream. She did it out of spite, anger, defiance, and passion. She threw subservient femininity to the wind and taught us that playing football is every woman’s right. She made her revolution without knowing exactly where she was going—as revolutions usually happen.”
Milly Lacombe