{"id":2600,"date":"2024-07-31T17:23:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympic-womens-football-marta-goes-off-in-tears-after-red-card\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T17:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:23:44","slug":"olympic-womens-football-marta-goes-off-in-tears-after-red-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympic-womens-football-marta-goes-off-in-tears-after-red-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic women&#8217;s football: Marta goes off in tears after red card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Brazil&#8217;s all-time leading goalscorer Marta walked off the pitch in tears after being shown a straight red card against Spain in the Olympic women&#8217;s football tournament.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marta, who will retire from international football this year, was sent off for narrowly missing Olga Carmona&#8217;s head with a dangerous high-footed tackle during the group stage game in Bordeaux.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 38-year-old will miss the quarter-finals at Paris 2024 should her side qualify. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marta won Olympic silver at Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008, losing to the United States on both occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She is the all-time leading scorer in World Cups, men&#8217;s or women&#8217;s, with 17 goals in 23 appearances across six tournaments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cj50l9jz034o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil&#8217;s all-time leading goalscorer Marta walked off the pitch in tears after being shown a straight red card against Spain in the Olympic women&#8217;s football tournament. Marta, who will retire from international football this year, was sent off for narrowly missing Olga Carmona&#8217;s head with a dangerous high-footed tackle during the group stage game in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}