Marta: Brazil icon nears international retirement

The six-time FIFA Women's Player of the Year is set to retire from Brazil duty at the end of 2024

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00:00My biggest achievement is being able to change my mother's life and that of my brothers, of my family.

00:08We are not a family, let's say, we are not what people believe we are.

00:15Oh, Marta is rich. No, I have a very great wealth, which is precisely these achievements,

00:21of being able to give a better life to my mother.

00:30Marta is one of the football players who was the most, how can I say, exposed when I was younger.

00:36And I think the fact that a player can win FIFA the best five years in a row,

00:42something about the character and the football player, that it was not only one season she was good,

00:48but it was over five years, six years, where she kept on performing.

00:53My face, the queen, my face, the icon, and just to be around her is contagious.

01:00She is generous and she has a lot of energy.

01:04She was the type of player who could win a game on her own, just a moment of brilliance.

01:10The type of player that you would want in your team and not up against you, and she's still shown that.