An emotional Marta, wearing her signature red lipstick and sunny yellow Brazil kit, with sweat slicking back her hair, took a deep breath before looking directly at the camera. Her team had just been booted from the 2019 Women’s World Cup, but Marta had loftier things on her mind, and this post-match interview was now her bully pulpit.
"It's wanting more. It's training more. It's taking care of yourself more. It's being ready to play 90 plus 30 minutes. This is what I ask of the girls. There's not going to be a Formiga forever. There is not going to be a Marta forever,” she said, beginning to point down the barrel.
