{"id":118677,"date":"2026-05-20T20:32:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/marta-returns-to-the-brazilian-womens-national-team-to-face-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T20:32:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:32:59","slug":"marta-returns-to-the-brazilian-womens-national-team-to-face-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/marta-returns-to-the-brazilian-womens-national-team-to-face-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Marta Returns to the Brazilian Women&#8217;s National Team to Face the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Marta Returns to the Brazilian National Team to Face the United States<\/h2>\n\nThe iconic Marta, six-time winner of the Best Player in the World award, returns to the Brazilian national team for the friendly matches in June against the United States. The announcement was made this Wednesday by coach Arthur Elias, marking a milestone in the team&#8217;s preparation.\n\nThe matches will take place on June 6 at the Neo Qu\u00edmica Arena in S\u00e3o Paulo and on June 9 at the Castel\u00e3o stadium in Fortaleza.\n\n<h2>Arthur Elias Faces the United States with Experience<\/h2>\n\nCoach Arthur Elias has revealed that this call-up is close to the group he envisions for the World Cup that Brazil will host in 2027, although he emphasized that the selection &#8220;remains open&#8221; and the final decisions will depend on the performance of each player.\n\nI want to repeat more names, but they must also show in their clubs that they deserve to be here.\n\nAmong the new features, the return of Marta, currently at the American Orlando Pride, stands out. Arthur Elias highlighted Marta&#8217;s invaluable experience on the field, crucial for facing the current Olympic champions.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It&#8217;s a pride.<\/p><cite>Arthur Elias<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Expanding the Observation of Female Talent<\/h2>\n\n\nIn addition to the list for the friendlies, the coach presented a second squad with 30 players for a training period in the metropolitan region of S\u00e3o Paulo between June 15 and 20, with the aim of expanding the observation of talent.\n\nAmong those called up for the friendlies, in addition to Marta, stand out forwards who play in international clubs such as Kerolin (Manchester City), Ary Borges (Angel City), Rafaelle (Orlando Pride) and Yaya (PSG).","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marta Returns to the Brazilian National Team to Face the United States The iconic Marta, six-time winner of the Best Player in the World award, returns to the Brazilian national team for the friendly matches in June against the United States. The announcement was made this Wednesday by coach Arthur Elias, marking a milestone in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[926,2073,2065,4197],"class_list":{"0":"post-118677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-friendly-matches","10":"tag-marta","11":"tag-womens-football"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}