Brazil and the U.S. will have a showdown at the final of women’s soccer at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Marta (38) of Brazil, who is competing at the last Olympics, is only one shot away from winning the title after her sixth attempt. However, the U.S., which already defeated Marta’s Brazil twice in the final, is determined to win the title once again.
Brazil won 4-2 in the semifinals against Spain at the Marseille Stade de Marseille in France on the 7th (local time) and will try to win the Olympic title for the first time in 16 years. Brazil, which led by an opponent’s own goal in the eighth minute of the first half, scored its second goal in extra time in the first half to finish 2-0. In the second half, the team won in a battle of two goals each. Brazil’s opponent is the U.S., which defeated Germany 1-0 in overtime. The final will be held at 00:00 a.m. Korean time on the 11th at the Parc de Princes in Paris, the sacred place of French soccer.
It could be the last Olympics, but Marta was absent from the quarterfinals and semi-finals. He was sent off for displaying violent play during a ball competition in the final group match against Spain, and was banned from two matches. Marta is a legend who scored 17 goals in six FIFA Women’s World Cups. No female soccer player has scored more goals in a World Cup than Marta.메이저놀이터
Despite this, Brazil has only won the runner-up prize twice (2004-2008) and the fourth place three times (1996, 2000 and 2016) in past Olympics, but has yet to win a gold medal. This is because Brazil has repeatedly lost the top spot to the U.S. The U.S. is the only team that won the gold medal at the 2004 Athens Games and 2008 Beijing Games, where Marta competed. Brazil, which will have a showdown in the finals for the first time in 16 years, has earned an opportunity to recover its fame along with Marta.
Since winning the title at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, the U.S. has achieved three consecutive gold medals from the 2004 Athens Olympics to the 2012 London Olympics, bringing four gold medals. At the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the U.S. team was eliminated in the quarterfinals, and at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, it ended up with a no-medal victory, holding back in the semifinals. The U.S. is renewing its commitment, saying, “I will never miss the opportunity to win the title again in eight years.”