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Marta soccer player girlfriend1/15/2024 ![]() ![]() Tacto started coaching women’s soccer a decade ago when he frequented local pickup games along the beach and thought the women played well against him. ![]() Their team, Criciuma, competes each weekend in Rio and has become a crusader on the local circuit of women’s tournaments, where many teams form and dissolve quickly over lack of cohesion and support. The stylish high schooler with a nose ring and cropped haircut slumps over the table with her eyes trained toward the screen alongside her teammate Tamyres Placias, 27. She then asks the bar owner to turn up the volume. Popular political scientist and commentator Mauricio Santoro tweeted: “My current utopia for Brazil: a country in which all of our institutions function as well as our women’s team.”Īs the women’s team filed into the Nova Amazonia stadium for a Tuesday night match against South Africa, Dandara da Silva, 20, an ambitious amateur indoor soccer midfielder, mutters the name of each player as she files into the full stadium: Aline, Érika, Raquel. Brazilians shared memes like forward Neymar’s face pasted over Miss Colombia, who last year was accidentally crowned Miss Universe before the pageant’s presenter corrected himself and had the tiara put on Miss Philippines (who in the meme was, of course, a smiling Marta). Glee over the comparison ensued on social media, with the hashtag #SaiNeymarEntraMarta (#OutWithNeymarInWithMarta) trending in the country. At the same time, Brazil’s men’s soccer team had scoreless draws against South Africa and Iraq and beat Denmark late Wednesday night to advance to the elimination rounds. Arguably Brazil’s most accomplished athlete, Marta Vieira da Silva - who won FIFA World Player of the Year honors five times in a row - scored two goals in a 5-1 victory over Sweden on Saturday. The next day Brazilian rugby player Isadora Cerullo received a marriage proposal from her girlfriend on the pitch. The first week of the Games so far has been a good one for Brazilian female athletes: The first gold medal for Brazil went to judoka Rafaela Silva, a young Navy sergeant from the City of God favela. Friends gather late into the evening over tall dewy glasses of draft beer while a couple digs into a plate of ribs and the evening soap opera concludes on the TVs around them.Įduardo Tacto, a coach as enthusiastic as he is hard nose about women’s soccer, sits down with two of his athletes to watch what for Brazilians has flashed as a source of national pride at the Summer Olympics: their women’s national team. RIO DE JANEIRO - This botequim, as corner bars are called, in the shadow of Rio’s Maracanã stadium is as quintessentially Rio as the Sugarloaf Mountain and the Ipanema beach. Watch Video: Rio Daily: Sugarloaf Mountain ![]()
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