The Orlando Pride and midfielder Marta have agreed to a new two-year contract, signing the free agent to the Pride through the 2026 season, it was announced today. Marta returns to the Pride after captaining Orlando to both the 2024 NWSL Shield and the 2024 NWSL Championship last season.
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“ Coming off the most successful season in our Club’ s history and, personally, one of the best of her professional career, re-signing Marta was a key business priority for us during this offseason,” said Orlando Pride VP of Sporting Operations and Sporting Director, Haley Carter.“ The impact she has made on our team, our locker room and our community is evident, of course through her incredible skill as a
“ This is a team where everybody works for each other, player, but even more so through her selfless and where everyone believes in each other, and I’ m so excited to
exemplary leadership style. We are thrilled to have continue this journey with this Club. Last year we proved everyone wrong and did something so special, as a team, and that’ s secured her as a member of the Pride for the next two years and look forward to seeing what more we why I’ m so happy to have the opportunity to sign for two more will accomplish during her tenure.” years. Personally, it also means a lot to me that I will reach 10 seasons as an Orlando Pride player, a special number for me as
Marta’ s 2024 season I have worn the No. 10 jersey most of my career,” Marta said. was one of the most successful“ As I have said many times, I love living in Orlando, I love the seasons of her eight-season Pride community, and I love the way that people embrace and enjoy career. In addition to leading the
Orlando Pride soccer. I can’ t wait for the season to start.” City of Orlando to its first-ever professional league title, Marta was named a finalist for both NWSL Most Valuable Player and NWSL
Internationally, Marta is the only women’ s player to Midfielder of the Year, along with landing on both be named FIFA World Player of the Year six times, and the the 2024 NWSL Best XI First Team and the 2024 lone player— men’ s or women’ s— to win five in a row. She FIFPRO Women’ s World XI. She finished the 2024 also holds the record for most career goals at the FIFA World season with 11 goals across all competitions, which Cup with 17 for Brazil and was the first player in the sport’ s was the fourth most in the NWSL, the most history to score at five different World Cup tournaments. At amongst NWSL midfielders and the most goals she the Tokyo 2020 Olympics she also became the first player to has scored in a single season since 2017. Marta score in five-consecutive Olympic Games and, this year, won scored in both the quarterfinal and semifinal the first-ever“ Marta Award”, the trophy named in her honor matches for the Pride on their way to becoming for the year’ s best goal in women’ s soccer. 2024 NWSL Champions, with her semifinal goal against Kansas City serving as a game winner to put
Since joining the Club in 2017, the Brazilian the Pride in the title match. international has made 128 appearances Marta also became a three-time silver medalist in 2024 and recorded 42 goals- 14 of those gamewinners- to go along with 19 assists while after helping Brazil reach the Final in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. That silver medal goes along with the ones she won at donning the Pride kit, all of which lead the the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
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