Friday, March 4, 2016 at 1:00 PM – KHSU Homepage Segment: Marta

Join Doc and host Danielle Orr for for their monthly feature on great athletes and sport from the Americas and Caribbean and their connection to popular culture and politics.

She is Marta, Marta Vieira da Silva – five-time female soccer player of the year. In a country that lives and breathes soccer, Brazil, she had to fight to play the game as a young girl. She hopes to showcase her talents on Brazil’s national team in the upcoming 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janiero, an event already fraught with political, economic and social controversy.
Marta is an artist, a magician. Here’s a compendium of some of Marta’s great goals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTGWlCjEPTM
click to hear the interview