Marta waves to the crowd after being presented with her silver medal during the women’s football medal cermony at the Paris 2024 Olympic at Parc des Princes in Paris, France. (Photo Credit: Ane Frosaker / SPP)
PARIS — Shortly after the United States women’s national team won the gold medal match at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Saturday Aug. 10, the medal-awarding ceremony took place. The winners of bronze, Germany; silver, Brazil, and gold, the US, lined up on a makeshift podium on one end of the field and received medals, one-by-one, as the announcers read out their names.
Players like Alexandra Popp from Germany and Mallory Swanson of the United States, who scored the game-winning goal to clinch the gold medal, received notable applause. But the crowd, made up almost evenly of U.S. and Brazil fans, roared loudest together for one player – Marta.
Marta Vieira da Silva, the 38-year-old Brazilian phenom who plans to retire from international soccer at the end of the year, has led a monumental career that will be…
