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2. Marta

BRAZIL

Named the best female
player in the world by
FIFA a record-breaking
six times, Marta has
earned a status reserved
for the most exalted
Brazilians: being known
by a single name. The
33-year-old is the most
famous women’s player
in a soccer-mad country
that largely dismissed
the women’s game
before her. But Marta’s
rare talent as a small
and nimble striker has
commanded international
respect, even earning
her comparisons to the STORIES TO WATCH
Brazilian legend Pelé.
Marta holds the From new teams to new kits to a new host, here’s
record for most goals your cheat sheet for this year’s World Cup
scored in the Women’s
World Cup—a stunning By Siobhan Morrin
15 in 17 matches. Count
on her to extend the mark
in her fifth World Cup. Eyes of the excellence of the
the world women’s game. In April,
Women’s soccer is more FIFA reported more than

popular in the U.S. than 720,000 tickets had been
anywhere else in the sold, over 50,000 more
world. The dominance than at the same point for
MARTA: ROBIN AL AM — GET T Y IMAGES; CROWD: MAT T JACQUES — AL AMY
of the men’s game nearly the previous World Cup,

everywhere else was the and the opening match
reality Germany’s women sold out within 48 hours.
archly pointed up in a TV viewership promises
video noting that the prize to be in the hundreds
for the first of their eight of millions; in Europe,

European championships national broadcasters like
was a tea set. But the the BBC are showing more
rest of the world is finally of the matches live on
starting to catch on to mainstream channels.