{"id":21399,"date":"2025-08-03T12:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/marta-guides-brazil-to-victory-in-the-womens-copa-america-epic-duel\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T16:46:59","slug":"marta-guides-brazil-to-victory-in-the-womens-copa-america-epic-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/marta-guides-brazil-to-victory-in-the-womens-copa-america-epic-duel\/","title":{"rendered":"Marta Guides Brazil to Victory in the Women&#8217;s Copa Am\u00e9rica! Epic Duel!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0803%2Fr1527214_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nBrazilian legend Marta led her team in an exciting defense of the Women&#8217;s Copa Am\u00e9rica title on Saturday, defeating Colombia in a penalty shootout after a final full of dramatic twists that ended in a 4-4 draw.\n\nColombia took the lead three times, but Brazil responded valiantly, equalizing the match each time at the Estadio Rodrigo Paz Delgado. The most crucial tie came in the 96th minute, thanks to a goal by Marta, which forced extra time.\n\nMarta scored again in the 105th minute, in a goal that could have been the winning one. However, Colombia showed great resilience and managed to tie again, taking the match to a penalty shootout, where Brazil won 5-4.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think women&#8217;s soccer has been growing a lot. The trend is for it to be more competitive. Everyone here deserved a match like this. Congratulations to Colombia as well.<\/p><cite>Amanda Gutierres, Brazilian player<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nGutierres also commented on the importance of this triumph:\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This means a lot. I think it&#8217;s the work of Brazil. It&#8217;s that never-give-up mentality. That&#8217;s a source of pride for Brazil. I think it means a lot to Brazilians.<\/p><cite>Amanda Gutierres, Brazilian player<\/cite><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian legend Marta led her team in an exciting defense of the Women&#8217;s Copa Am\u00e9rica title on Saturday, defeating Colombia in a penalty shootout after a final full of dramatic twists that ended in a 4-4 draw. Colombia took the lead three times, but Brazil responded valiantly, equalizing the match each time at the Estadio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[926,6747,2015,2065],"class_list":{"0":"post-21399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-colombia","10":"tag-copa-america","11":"tag-marta"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399","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=21399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}