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Marta is a Brazilian soccer player born in 1986 who is widely recognized as one of the greatest female footballers of all time. She matters because of her exceptional skill, record-breaking career achievements, and significant impact on women's soccer globally.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 36
Top works
- Mummy Fairy and Me
- Fairy Mom and Me #3
- Fairy Mom and Me #4
- Fairy Mom and Me #2
- Headless Ghost
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Czechia
- Active from
- 1942-11-01
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 84,653
- Total plays
- 670,484
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(1) Marta Złakowska is a Polish singer who started her career in 2017 after meeting Tricky and becoming a part of his band. In 2023, she released her debut album When It's Going Wrong. (2) Marta is a band, consisting of Simon Lacouture and Joachim Baumerder, blending techno with acoustic influences. In 2025, they released their first EP Room. (3) MARTA is a garage- and blues-punk band based in Vienna, Austria. MARTA features Paul Plut, Günther Paulitsch and Julia Hager while performing liv
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,793x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 11,606x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
· 2021 · cited 5,574x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,480x
- The GTEx Consortium atlas of genetic regulatory effects across human tissues
· 2020 · cited 5,055x
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Quotes
- “Cry in the beginning, so you can smile at the end.”
- “This shows that women’s soccer has been growing. This shows that women’s soccer is a product that gives profit, that gives enjoyment to watch.”
- “Women’s football is relying on you to survive. Think about it, value it more.”
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Sports profile
- Sport
- American Football
- Team
- _Retired American Football
- Position
- Wide Receiver
- Nationality
- United States
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Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 58
- Official website
- www.marta10.com
- Image
- NC Courage vs Orlando Pride (Jun 2024) 073 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 162
Show 6 more facts
- sport number
- 10
- Commons category
- Marta Vieira da Silva
- date of birth
- 1986-02-19
- birth name
- Marta Vieira da Silva
- Commons gallery
- Marta Vieira da Silva
- start of work period
- 2000-00-00
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:59, 25 April 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 10 August 2024
Marta Vieira da Silva ( Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈmaʁtɐ viˈejɾɐ dɐ ˈsiwvɐ]; born 19 February 1986), known mononymously as Marta, is a Brazilian-Swedish professional footballer who plays as a forward for National Women's Soccer League club Orlando Pride and captains the Brazil women's national team. Regarded by many as the greatest female footballer of all time, she has been named FIFA World Player of the Year six times, five of them being consecutive (2006—2010), with the latest award coming in 2018.