Women's Soccer United's Blog Posts Tagged 'Marta' (8)

FIFA have revealed the final nominees for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year award 2012 and the FIFA World Coach of the Year for Women’s Football 2012 in a press conference today attended by FIFA President Joseph Blatter.

 

The three nominees for FIFA Women's Player of the Year are Abby Wambach (USA), Alex Morgan (USA) and Marta (Brazil)

They were selected from the …

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Marta took part in the Abbey Road interview where she talks about growing up playing football in Brazil and her move to Sweden.

 

The interview video is linked below. Thank you to Izzy for the video translation:

 

Marta: Hi



Reporter: Hi, how are you?



Marta: I'm…

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In December 2011, SporTV News showed the story of former defender of Brazil women's national football team Carol Basilio overcoming a motorcycle accident where she lost both her legs.

After the accident Carol Basilio showed extreme courage and strength as she began to practice swimming. She dreams of a medal at the London 2012 Paralympic…

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Marta's agent Fabiano Farah has told Swedish Eurosport she has spoken to four clubs in Sweden, Tyresö FF, Malmö, Linköping and Umeå.

 

Two clubs in Sweden have openly expressed interest in signing five times winner of FIFA World Player of the Year, Göteborg…

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Marta, Sawa and Wambach are all contenders for this year's FIFA Ballon d'Or Award for the Women's World Player of the Year 2011 award.

 

Ten women from the World of women's football were short-listed for the prestigious…

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FFC Frankfurt are the latest club to express interest in the 5 times consecutive World Player of the year, Marta.

 

Only last week, we reported that Swedish side Göteborg were interested in bringing the Brazilian player to the Damallsvenskan.

 

FFC manager…

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Image: Getty Images

 

The results from the FIFA Ballon d'Or Award ceremony are being announced.

Significant awards for the women's football World are:

 

Fifa Fair Play Award 2010: Haiti U17 National Women's Team 

Women's Coach of the Year…

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© Image Howard C. Smith | isiphotos.com CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (May 14, 2010) – FC Gold Pride (5-1-0, 15 points) won its fifth straight game, a new WPS record, by defeating the Boston Breakers (1-2-3, 6 points), 2-1, Friday evening at Harvard Stadium in front of 5,283 fans. Brazilian star Marta scored both goals for the Bay Area side.



"This was a difficult game on the road because we played a very tough team in front of a great home… Continue