Six-time world player of the year Marta has signed a new, undisclosed-length deal with American team Orlando Pride.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 33-year-old Brazil forward has been with the Florida-based outfit – who are coached by English ex-Birmingham City Women boss Marc Skinner – since 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It’s wonderful for the club and the fans to have Marta, whose career speaks for itself, back with the Pride next season,” Skinner told the club website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n “She is effervescent. Nothing compares to her experience and passion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n She has scored 23 goals and provided 10 assists in 54 Pride appearances – more goals and assists than anyone else in the team’s four seasons in America’s National Women’s Soccer League [NWSL].<\/p>\n\n\n\n This summer she became the first player – male or female – to score at five different World Cups and then moved above Germany men’s striker Miroslav Klose’s 16 career World Cup goals, with her 17th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Six-time world player of the year Marta has signed a new, undisclosed-length deal with American team Orlando Pride. The 33-year-old Brazil forward has been with the Florida-based outfit – who are coached by English ex-Birmingham City Women boss Marc Skinner – since 2017. “It’s wonderful for the club and the fans to have Marta, whose career speaks for itself, back… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}