![]() Marta's manager at Rosengaard in Sweden said she's added focus and drive to the team, once he convinced her to shoot more. The 23-year-old helped Barcelona win the Champions League and Spanish cup and league this season, after helping drive host Brazil to the semifinals of last year's World Cup before missing that match – a 7-1 drubbing by eventual champion Germany – with an injury. Neymar moved to Barcelona in May 2013 for what the Spanish team said was 57 million euros ($64 million). Her national coach, Oswaldo Fumeiro Alvarez, known as Vadao, says the forward is as important to his team as Barcelona's Neymar is to the men's squad. "It's very difficult when you enter a war: you live or you die." "It's a war," Marta, whose given name is Marta Vieira da Silva, said in an interview. Several of Brazil's long-time players retired before this year's Women's World Cup, and Marta is looking to pass on some of her experience to help younger teammates realize what they're in for at the tournament, which ends July 5 in Vancouver. It's unclear whether Marta's disclosed income included her sponsorship deals. That's about a week's salary for Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo or Barcelona's Lionel Messi, the last two men to win soccer player of the year. According to the Swedish Tax Authority, Marta earned 1.58 million kronor ($190,000) in Sweden in 2013 when she was playing for Tyresoe. It's incredible the lack of attention and the need for survival for these ladies."įarah wouldn't disclose her income. "It's a big gap from Marta to average players, who are not known. Brazilian players on Eastern Europe clubs make much more than Marta without making appearances for the Selecao, as the national team is known. "It's not close," said her manager, Fabiano Farah, who used to represent Brazil men's team star Ronaldo. What she isn't, her agent says, is highly paid. ![]() She's arguably one of the greatest ever in the sport. She was league champion six times in Sweden, where she plays for Rosengaard, and twice in the U.S. The list of accomplishments for the 29-year-old include the sport's top player between 20 and the highest scorer in the 2007 tournament, when Brazil finished second. Like many skillful Brazilians, five-time world soccer player of the year Marta has traveled to pursue her career.
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