After her team’s 3-2 loss against Chicago on Sunday, Marta flipped the script and asked the reporters at the post-game press conference a question of her own.
“What are the two fundamentals if you want to play soccer?” she asked, holding up her hands in an exasperated shrug. “Trap the ball and pass the ball. When you can’t do that in a game, especially in the [dangerous] areas … we kill ourselves.”
The game came only a week after the Brazilian national team fell in a 2-1 loss to France in the Round of 16. Marta started and played a full 90 on Sunday, pushing her runs at full speed into the final minutes of the game.