1 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: It's the twenty sixteen Olympics in Brazil. At first, the 2 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,639 Speaker 1: Brazilian men's futie bowl team is doing poorly and the 3 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: women's is putting on a show. When the men failed 4 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:28,400 Speaker 1: to score against traditionally weak opponents Iraq and South Africa, 5 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:35,839 Speaker 1: the fans start to chant Marta, Marta, Marta on the 6 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:39,200 Speaker 1: back of their brazil jerseys. Above the number ten. Kids 7 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 1: cross out Neymar and scrawl Martyr in magic marker. This 8 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:45,880 Speaker 1: is not just to make a statement. If you want 9 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,120 Speaker 1: a shirt with martyr on the back, this is the 10 00:00:48,159 --> 00:00:51,400 Speaker 1: only way to do it. The sports stores, t shirt 11 00:00:51,440 --> 00:00:54,280 Speaker 1: shops and street vendors who walk up and down Copacabana 12 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: carry endless Neymars, but no one has a Martyr. This 13 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,320 Speaker 1: is shocking for a global fugibole icon to not have 14 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,320 Speaker 1: a jersey with her name on it in her own country. 15 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,200 Speaker 1: Marta has won FIFA World Player of the Year six times, 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 1: and yet you can't buy a shirt with her name 17 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,200 Speaker 1: on it. How is that even possible. This is one 18 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,399 Speaker 1: of the questions Gwen who actually played for Santos FC, 19 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,160 Speaker 1: set out to answer when she wrote her book Under 20 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:25,640 Speaker 1: the Lights and in the Dark, which inspired this docuseries. 21 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: So come with us to the most fugibole mad country 22 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,399 Speaker 1: in all the land. As we follow the trail of 23 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:35,520 Speaker 1: the magicians. Some you may have heard of, some you haven't. 24 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: We'll head to Santos, the most storied club in Brazilian history, 25 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: where the women attempt to win the hearts of their country. 26 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:48,960 Speaker 1: I'm Hannah Waddingham and this is hustle Rule. This episode 27 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: is Brazil's number ten. Cry in the beginning, smile in 28 00:01:52,920 --> 00:02:11,760 Speaker 1: the end one monte. Nobody now of it to Gwin 29 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 1: to understand Brazil's relationship with footchiebo feminino, Here's some history. 30 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,959 Speaker 1: It first appeared during the traveling circuses of the nineteen twenties, 31 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:26,799 Speaker 1: for women's soccer matches took place alongside magic tricks. By 32 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: ninety the women's game had spread like wildfire, a thousand 33 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:36,280 Speaker 1: reported matches a day, but then Brazil banned footchieba feminino 34 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,320 Speaker 1: in nineteen forty one. The law, which remained in place 35 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: until nineteen eighty one, stated that women will not be 36 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 1: allowed to practice sports which are considered incompatible to their 37 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: feminine nature. Enter Sisle Lima d Amore, known as CC. 38 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,960 Speaker 1: She was born in Espanada in nineteen sixty seven and 39 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: she was one of Brazil's first footie off from Anino magicians. 40 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,000 Speaker 1: There's a generation of us out there who swooned over her, 41 00:03:05,440 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: Yet she disappeared before anybody knew what happened to her, 42 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: and when she was growing up, it was illegal for 43 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:15,640 Speaker 1: her to play. It was a crazy law. I was 44 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:19,120 Speaker 1: born in a small town and not of Brazil, so 45 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:23,960 Speaker 1: of course I ignore completely. But it was complicated because 46 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: my parents, especially my dad, he didn't like the idea 47 00:03:28,080 --> 00:03:32,919 Speaker 1: of me playing soccer because I was a girl. One day, 48 00:03:32,960 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 1: I was so upset that I decided, okay, so since 49 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,840 Speaker 1: they are not let me play, so I went to 50 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:43,240 Speaker 1: my room, I grabbed my dolls and I took my 51 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:47,240 Speaker 1: doll's head off. So that's when I started basically play 52 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:50,960 Speaker 1: soccer with my doll's head. My older sister she was 53 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 1: getting already, you know, upset, because she started like, okay, 54 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 1: I have to hide all my dolls as well. So 55 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: my dad one day after, I think he saw all 56 00:04:00,800 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: my dogs with our heads and he's like, this is insane. 57 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 1: Finally he decided to give my first soccer ball. Probably 58 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 1: was the best day of my life, to be honest, 59 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 1: When he finally recognized this girl was born with a gift. 60 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:24,040 Speaker 1: I remember going to the backyard and my goodness, and 61 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,039 Speaker 1: I remember hearing him talk to my mom and my 62 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:30,840 Speaker 1: mom said, do you know what you're creating over here? 63 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,640 Speaker 1: And he's like, let's see. I've been saying no for 64 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:40,039 Speaker 1: the past couple months, so let's see it. Soccer for 65 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:43,680 Speaker 1: me is magical. It is hard to put in words, 66 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: but that's where I could be sissy, you know, the 67 00:04:47,560 --> 00:04:51,760 Speaker 1: little girl with a huge, big dream that it was 68 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:58,159 Speaker 1: to show something special. By the time she's sixteen years old, 69 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: Cecie gets a first all up to the national team 70 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: and she's given jersey number ten, the number reserved for 71 00:05:06,040 --> 00:05:10,839 Speaker 1: the gods of her country. I remember crying like a baby. 72 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,040 Speaker 1: Bay was the best feeling because I'd say, oh my gosh, 73 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: number ten, number ten, Zequel I had butterflies, for sure. 74 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: It was crazy. It was crazy and as it was 75 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:36,280 Speaker 1: a dream come true. In World Cup CC, number ten 76 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:40,040 Speaker 1: was my favorite. She was all my friends favorite. She 77 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: was this tiny fairy with a shaved head who took 78 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,800 Speaker 1: these astonishing little touches and played balls we would never 79 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 1: have thought of. In World Cup she wowed the entire 80 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,920 Speaker 1: World and won the Golden Boot, tied for the most 81 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: goals scored. The next year, she captains the Olympic team, 82 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:02,359 Speaker 1: and in two thousand and one, she's invited to play 83 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:04,800 Speaker 1: in the new US Pro League had for the Bay 84 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 1: Areas Cyber Ray as well the US as assistant leader CC. 85 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:09,719 Speaker 1: What can you say about her but one of the 86 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: best playmakers in the world. That very same year, the 87 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 1: Salpollo Fucci Ball Federation also started a league, but what 88 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 1: at first seemed like progress was actually more like going backwards. 89 00:06:21,640 --> 00:06:26,479 Speaker 1: To play you had to have long hair ponytails. Only. 90 00:06:26,880 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: Keep in mind, this isn't the nineteen eighties, this is 91 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:33,800 Speaker 1: two thousand and one. This is after Mia Hamm has 92 00:06:33,839 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: already arrived on scene and changed the game in the 93 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 1: United States, and the girl should wear ponytails, makeup, blah 94 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:47,279 Speaker 1: blah blah. And I couldn't believe that Obur Confederation was 95 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 1: going that far and I decline. So there was a 96 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:54,520 Speaker 1: lot of players that they could not participate on that tournament. 97 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,720 Speaker 1: I thought this was not okay. Back in the US, 98 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:01,200 Speaker 1: she leads the Bay air As Cyber Raised to the 99 00:07:01,320 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: US Pro League Championship. She's at the top of her game, 100 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:09,840 Speaker 1: and wants more respect for FOOTIEBLL Feminino. Of course I 101 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: became more vocal, you know, fighting more for our rights 102 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:19,640 Speaker 1: that are structure financially especially, and I don't think that 103 00:07:20,040 --> 00:07:25,200 Speaker 1: was it was okay with Confederation right after the Olympics. 104 00:07:25,760 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: Pay a high price because I was no call anymore 105 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,600 Speaker 1: for the national team, even though I thought I was 106 00:07:32,640 --> 00:07:38,560 Speaker 1: playing my best soccer. Let's take this in for a second, CC, 107 00:07:39,280 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 1: quite possibly the best in the world, is cut from 108 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: the team, no explanation. I remember watching the World Cup 109 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:50,600 Speaker 1: in two thousand and three and looking for her, scanning 110 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: the field, like where is she? Where is CC? Like 111 00:07:55,240 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 1: everyone else, I assumed she'd retired, but that wasn't what happened. 112 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: I think it was physically mentally on the best shape 113 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: of my life, to be honest, and I think this 114 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:13,120 Speaker 1: is the only thing that I too unto today bothered 115 00:08:13,160 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: me because I didn't have a chance to close the 116 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,480 Speaker 1: chapter with the national team the wade I think I deserve. 117 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,160 Speaker 1: I always try to leave everything on the field and 118 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: make my country proud. What's extra infuriating for both the 119 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: fans and the players is that two thousand and three 120 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 1: is their Marta via da Silva, the five four phenomenon 121 00:08:35,679 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 1: from Deisiachos arrived on the national team scene, which means 122 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:46,840 Speaker 1: we would have had CC playing alongside Marta exactly can 123 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 1: you imagine? And just like that, Brazil's first footieball feminino 124 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: magician fades out, so Marta ccs number ten successor picks 125 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: up the fight to when the heart of their country. 126 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: She was already crazy, crazy good. You knew right away 127 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: at that two thousand and three World Cup Marta was astonishing. 128 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:18,160 Speaker 1: I sat on my coffee table in Pensacola, Florida, getting 129 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,960 Speaker 1: as close to the screen as I possibly could, unable 130 00:09:22,040 --> 00:09:25,960 Speaker 1: to believe what I was seeing. Her Jinga, the Brazilian 131 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 1: word for some blend of magic and imagination with the 132 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:34,200 Speaker 1: ball is extraordinary on its own, but she has another power. 133 00:09:34,640 --> 00:09:39,240 Speaker 1: She scores. Many Brazilian male stars have been gifted in 134 00:09:39,280 --> 00:09:42,599 Speaker 1: the art of the dribble, but only one ended the 135 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 1: dribbling sprays with goals play. Brazil's greatest goal scorer of 136 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 1: all time. Now nearly fifty years later, a new goal 137 00:09:53,640 --> 00:09:56,920 Speaker 1: sorcerer had arrived. In her first six games with the 138 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:02,439 Speaker 1: national team, Marta scored six team goals. That's two point 139 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:06,680 Speaker 1: five goals per game in her first World Cup. Her 140 00:10:06,679 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 1: performance feels like a meteor shower. Every touch and explosion 141 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:15,040 Speaker 1: of magic, and anyone watching would a test to have 142 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 1: witnessed something rare. But in Brazil, no one was watching. 143 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 1: Here's Brazilian sports journalist Frederico Battalia. In two thousand and three, 144 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:34,439 Speaker 1: the ratings of the FBI were very small because women's 145 00:10:34,440 --> 00:10:38,400 Speaker 1: soccer was not wildly known. It was not publicized to 146 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 1: hear in Brazil. Two years after Martha lit up the field, 147 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: I got an email Brazilian team looking for American goal scorer, 148 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:51,240 Speaker 1: even though I was an outside mid who almost never 149 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:55,480 Speaker 1: scored goals. I emailed back, yes me because I couldn't 150 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:59,199 Speaker 1: resist the chance to go to Santos, home of Plea, 151 00:11:04,720 --> 00:11:07,880 Speaker 1: and I had the memory of Marta burnt into my mind. 152 00:11:08,280 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 1: I wanted to go to this country that had created her, 153 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 1: the most dazzling player I'd ever witnessed. That summer, no 154 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:19,840 Speaker 1: one came to our games or even new a women's 155 00:11:19,880 --> 00:11:23,520 Speaker 1: side existed. We lived two hours outside of Santos. We 156 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:27,280 Speaker 1: hitchhike to practice, shared our field with a horse, and 157 00:11:27,360 --> 00:11:30,920 Speaker 1: washed our jerseys by hand. We often trained on the 158 00:11:30,960 --> 00:11:34,679 Speaker 1: beach and when there were high tides, we ran sprints 159 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,920 Speaker 1: on the main highway. But what blew my mind the 160 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,000 Speaker 1: most was that even though she was widely known in 161 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: the US, the Brazilian general public had never heard of Marta. 162 00:11:46,480 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 1: Anytime I talked to anyone outside of my team, the 163 00:11:49,679 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: taxi drivers, the waiters, the sie vendors, the kids on 164 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,280 Speaker 1: the beach, I had to know, do you know who 165 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:01,679 Speaker 1: Marta is? The answer was always no. It would be 166 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 1: two more years before that changed. In June two and seven, 167 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,960 Speaker 1: Brazil hosts the Pan American Games, which means Martha will 168 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: play for the national team on home soil. This is 169 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:20,080 Speaker 1: the first chance her country has to witness her in person. 170 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 1: They will talk on your fun. Martha scored five goals 171 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: against Canada. She scored four goals against Ecuador. In the 172 00:12:39,440 --> 00:12:42,960 Speaker 1: final match against the US, she scored two goals. Not 173 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:47,600 Speaker 1: only that, she had two assists and they got these 174 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:52,520 Speaker 1: historic scored defeating the US five nil, ensuring the gold medal. 175 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 1: Stories started to spread of the girl who scored as 176 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:00,000 Speaker 1: many goals as play and who does so in equal 177 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,679 Speaker 1: at least spectacular fashion. Here's Brazilian national team player on 178 00:13:04,800 --> 00:13:08,440 Speaker 1: Dressa Alves, who watched those games when she was fifteen 179 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:14,440 Speaker 1: years old, seven in the Pan American Games in Rio 180 00:13:14,520 --> 00:13:18,800 Speaker 1: de Janeiro. She was incredible, the things she did, how 181 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:21,640 Speaker 1: she played. I couldn't imagine that someone would be able 182 00:13:21,679 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 1: to do that. First of all, I was like, I 183 00:13:24,480 --> 00:13:28,280 Speaker 1: couldn't believe that women's soccer was on TV, and seeing 184 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,040 Speaker 1: the girls right, it made me believe in my dream. 185 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,240 Speaker 1: And I told my dad that I would be there someday, 186 00:13:34,240 --> 00:13:38,440 Speaker 1: that he would see me on TV. Months later, in 187 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,959 Speaker 1: the two thousand and seven Women's World Cup, she again 188 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:47,520 Speaker 1: electrifies in the semifinal, once again facing the United States. 189 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: Martet back He'll juggles the ball around one side of 190 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:56,000 Speaker 1: the defender, Pirouett's around the other, then slots the ball 191 00:13:56,080 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: into the back of the net, the most spectacular, ridiculous 192 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:11,280 Speaker 1: goal you've ever seen in your life. All of Brazil 193 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,600 Speaker 1: takes notice. The morning after the game, I was back 194 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:18,960 Speaker 1: in Brazil making a documentary called Pelata, the Portuguese word 195 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: for pickup games, and this time Marta and consequently Fuccibo 196 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: femanino is everywhere. The headlines read Marta, Marta, Marta. In 197 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:35,640 Speaker 1: the neighborhood Bars, dozens gathered around television's watching the highlights 198 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:41,120 Speaker 1: as they waited for their coffee to brew in the morning, reacting, whistling, appreciating. 199 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: Two years earlier, no one had heard of her. Now 200 00:14:45,560 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: I no longer needed to ask about her, because everyone 201 00:14:49,040 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: from the grandpas to the little girls were chanting her name. 202 00:15:06,240 --> 00:15:09,440 Speaker 1: But in spite of the hunger to watch her play, 203 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: to make her living, Marta couldn't stay in our home country. 204 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,920 Speaker 1: She had to continue playing for teams in far away 205 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:20,560 Speaker 1: places like Sweden and the United States. This meant Brazilian 206 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:25,640 Speaker 1: still had no way to witness her play professionally in person. Still, 207 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: even with Marta gone, that World Cup performance left an aftershock, 208 00:15:31,280 --> 00:15:35,720 Speaker 1: a lingering magic that's spread beyond her, which brings us 209 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:38,880 Speaker 1: back to Santo SEFC, the club I played with three 210 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: summers earlier. Seeing the reaction to Marta and the women's 211 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:47,040 Speaker 1: team in the World Cup, Santos management was suddenly thinking 212 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,120 Speaker 1: maybe we should pay a bit more attention to the 213 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 1: women's side. On the Santos website, the club posts an 214 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: invitation to an open tryout for the women's team. Here's Clayton, 215 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: my old coach, who had pretty much single handedly created 216 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:14,960 Speaker 1: the women's team at Santos na uh nintern etch. So 217 00:16:15,040 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: we had a call on the internet for the tryouts, 218 00:16:17,320 --> 00:16:21,720 Speaker 1: and in two days we had eleven hundred applications. From 219 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,960 Speaker 1: the eleven hundred girls that applied, about nine hundred and 220 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 1: eighty came. At the time, in two thousand and seven, 221 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,160 Speaker 1: the internet was not that sophisticated here in Brazil. We 222 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: had just email, so we also received many physical letters 223 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,640 Speaker 1: of girls that wanted to apply, and they would come 224 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:41,960 Speaker 1: from all corners of Brazil, from the northern region, from 225 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: the northeastern region, from the Amazon region, like thousands of 226 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,520 Speaker 1: miles away from Santos. Some of them couldn't afford to 227 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:53,360 Speaker 1: cover the traveling expenses, and it was really buzzing with 228 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:57,600 Speaker 1: commotion because when I was about to arrive at eight am, 229 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:01,360 Speaker 1: that was the time scheduled for the trial, there were 230 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: like two thousand people in front of the gate because 231 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:08,199 Speaker 1: they were like a thousand girls plus their families and 232 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 1: their coaches. From the thousand girls, they were used to 233 00:17:12,080 --> 00:17:15,560 Speaker 1: playing pickup matches, they were used to playing on the 234 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: streets at school. They had no formal coaching. Our team 235 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,560 Speaker 1: was quite strong, so we had to hire people who 236 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: were ready to become professionals if they were skilled only 237 00:17:27,640 --> 00:17:30,679 Speaker 1: and they had talent to be developed. This was not 238 00:17:30,920 --> 00:17:34,680 Speaker 1: enough for us. So from the thousand girls, just one 239 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:39,879 Speaker 1: of them became a professional soccer player. That one player 240 00:17:40,200 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 1: was Catlin Wiggers, who traveled over twelve hours from Rio 241 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:48,639 Speaker 1: Fortuna in the state of Santa Catarina. She was fourteen 242 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: years old. Ever since I was a child, I heard 243 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 1: the stories. My grandmother was a supporter of Santa's club. 244 00:17:59,280 --> 00:18:01,439 Speaker 1: There was NOIV in her time, so she had a 245 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,719 Speaker 1: small radio, a battery radio, and she would listen to 246 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:07,480 Speaker 1: all of the matches on the radio. She would use 247 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:20,960 Speaker 1: the radio to listen to Pelz goals, Continus goals. She 248 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,359 Speaker 1: will say before My grandmother played and my mom also 249 00:18:24,400 --> 00:18:28,120 Speaker 1: played soccer. This passion was something that came down from 250 00:18:28,200 --> 00:18:31,960 Speaker 1: generation to generation. So I heard the stories and then 251 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: I fell in love with Sensus ever since I was 252 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:37,400 Speaker 1: a child, because I wanted to live a little bit 253 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:41,960 Speaker 1: of my grandmother's dream. So I got there with my suitcase. 254 00:18:42,119 --> 00:18:45,080 Speaker 1: I said goodbye to all of my friends in my city. 255 00:18:45,359 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: When the doors opened to me, I grabbed and made 256 00:18:48,280 --> 00:18:54,159 Speaker 1: the dream come true. The talent at Santos is undeniable 257 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:57,840 Speaker 1: and like Catlin, each of them has a story of 258 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: finding a way to play. Here's Erika Cristiano Dos Santos, 259 00:19:03,440 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 1: known on the field only as Erica. As a kid, 260 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 1: she used to take three different buses just to get 261 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: to practice from her home in South Paula does every day, 262 00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: I would have to earn the money for the bus, 263 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:22,400 Speaker 1: and my mother would bake cakes and pies and candies 264 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:26,120 Speaker 1: and I would sell them at school and with that money, 265 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: I would then buy the ticket. Sometimes when I did 266 00:19:30,119 --> 00:19:32,720 Speaker 1: not sell anything, I didn't have the money, and my 267 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,840 Speaker 1: mother asked, do you have the money today for the 268 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,960 Speaker 1: bus to go to the practice, And then I said, yes, yes, 269 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 1: it's your with me. Okay, it's a lie. You know. 270 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:47,399 Speaker 1: My father is a bus driver. I knew all the 271 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:52,399 Speaker 1: other drivers, you know, and I would go under the 272 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,320 Speaker 1: turn still because I asked my the bus drivers who 273 00:19:56,320 --> 00:19:58,240 Speaker 1: are my father's friend, let me go under the turn 274 00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 1: still has said yes, yes, you can go. My hair 275 00:20:01,240 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 1: was really lone montox and then I feel my hair 276 00:20:06,160 --> 00:20:09,639 Speaker 1: passing through the floor like this, you know. But I 277 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 1: didn't care. The only thing that I wanted us to 278 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 1: play soccer. I wanted to follow my dreams. So the 279 00:20:16,280 --> 00:20:19,880 Speaker 1: santist does come from all over Brazil and they dazzle 280 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 1: with their flowing, beautiful football. The city comes to their 281 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:27,359 Speaker 1: games to see what they refer to locally as football 282 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 1: arte football art, largely because of the beauty of the 283 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:36,199 Speaker 1: Santos footie ball. Clayton is named head coach of the 284 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:40,199 Speaker 1: Brazilian national team, and this is the moment when he 285 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:45,000 Speaker 1: convinces Martha to come home. In the press conference announcing 286 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:54,080 Speaker 1: Martha's arrival, the Santos Football Club president says, Santos Santos 287 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: already had play and marked the history of world men's football. 288 00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: Now with the arrival of Marta, we will also mark 289 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:05,439 Speaker 1: a time in the history of women's football. We hope 290 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:11,199 Speaker 1: that she'll repeat the steps of the King. Marta adds 291 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:17,639 Speaker 1: from I'm wearing number ten, that was Play's number. The 292 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 1: expectations are really high and I'm hoping to have the 293 00:21:20,840 --> 00:21:25,800 Speaker 1: same success as him. It will be like a dream 294 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:28,439 Speaker 1: for me from my mom to be there. Now that 295 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:33,320 Speaker 1: I'm closer and it's possible. Catlin, the one out of 296 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: the thousand who made the team, is now seventeen and 297 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:43,080 Speaker 1: teammates with Marta, and she's pretty much beside herself so 298 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,400 Speaker 1: my dream has always been, you know, playing next to her, 299 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 1: playing with her. So when I saw Marta next to me, 300 00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,399 Speaker 1: I couldn't speak to her. I was speechless. She's the 301 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,080 Speaker 1: queen here in Brazil. Marta has come to play for 302 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:01,879 Speaker 1: Copa Libertadores the South American Final, which is a huge deal. 303 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:06,040 Speaker 1: It's the champions League of South and Central America. Santos 304 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: hasn't won since play was with the team back in 305 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three. It's been over forty years. The women 306 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 1: are playing in the famous Villa Belmiro stadium, something we 307 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: were never allowed to do when I was on the 308 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:25,000 Speaker 1: team five years earlier. Back then, we had only a 309 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,960 Speaker 1: dozen or so curious onlookers show up at our games, 310 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:36,560 Speaker 1: but now twelve thou people are here to see Feminino. 311 00:22:37,520 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 1: This is the strength of Marte, the force of the 312 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:47,240 Speaker 1: best in the world. She was playing for Santos. Marta 313 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: had the opportunity to see her mother watching her play 314 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:53,880 Speaker 1: in the stadium. She had never had this opportunity before 315 00:22:53,960 --> 00:22:57,440 Speaker 1: and also had never seen all of the fans cheering 316 00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,679 Speaker 1: for her. It was very, very moving. That was like 317 00:23:00,920 --> 00:23:04,320 Speaker 1: fulfilling a dream for her. At a press conference, Martha 318 00:23:04,440 --> 00:23:09,959 Speaker 1: says what I'm saying. It's a very special moment for 319 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,920 Speaker 1: me to play in Brazil with my mom here, because 320 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,160 Speaker 1: my mom has never had the opportunity to see me play. 321 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,680 Speaker 1: I left my house when I was fourteen, and she's 322 00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 1: never seen me play. So it was very emotional. After 323 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: Martha the Queen scores, she runs her mother and the 324 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 1: crowd and makes a heart shape with her hands. Her 325 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:36,479 Speaker 1: mother cries and says, that's my daughter. She scored, she 326 00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:43,440 Speaker 1: did it. Come here, my baby, And here's Erika's reaction. 327 00:23:44,119 --> 00:23:50,879 Speaker 1: And before that, nobody really cared, you know, nobody really 328 00:23:50,920 --> 00:23:57,160 Speaker 1: watched our matches. And at the Libertades it was so crowded, 329 00:23:57,359 --> 00:24:01,040 Speaker 1: you know, it was backed with people. Then people were 330 00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:04,159 Speaker 1: on the streets set when we started to grow in 331 00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: the women's soccer even men's teams, of fans, the parents, 332 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,920 Speaker 1: the grand parents, children, and everybody knew us. They would 333 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 1: cause better names. They would never forget this moment. And 334 00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 1: while you couldn't buy a national team jersey with Martha's 335 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:25,440 Speaker 1: name on it, you could buy a Santos Marta jersey. 336 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,639 Speaker 1: We made the jersey with her name and her number 337 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: number ten, and we also made a man's cut because 338 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,360 Speaker 1: men were also demanding to wear her jersey, so it 339 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,080 Speaker 1: was a men's fit with Martha's name on the back 340 00:24:40,119 --> 00:24:43,680 Speaker 1: of the jersey. It's sold like hotcakes and with each 341 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: game the crowd grew. Martha would cry in the dressing 342 00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,760 Speaker 1: rooms because we had audiences coming to the stadium of 343 00:24:56,840 --> 00:25:01,000 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand people, twenty thousand people, and they would 344 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: all scream for her. Santa scores showers of goals. Not 345 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:21,400 Speaker 1: only do they have Marta, they have Christianity too, who 346 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: is spectacular. She scores five goals in a game, another 347 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 1: five goals in the next game. They sailed through to 348 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: the championship. That Villa bel Meda stadium was full. It 349 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,240 Speaker 1: was crowded, so we felt the vibration, the love of 350 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 1: the supporters. I went into the second half of the game. 351 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: That's when I played, and I could fulfill another dream. 352 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:56,520 Speaker 1: I scored the goal of the final match for Liberta, 353 00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,840 Speaker 1: and it was MARTA's past. I was there in the 354 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,240 Speaker 1: final match of the liber getting a pass from of 355 00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:08,199 Speaker 1: the Queen. So these were two dreams coming true in 356 00:26:08,200 --> 00:26:13,960 Speaker 1: a single moment. It was a magical moment in my life. 357 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:28,960 Speaker 1: Paper some thos scum. After the final When the reporters 358 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 1: talked to Martha, she cries, he I think this win 359 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,360 Speaker 1: is for her mom, for the Santos nation, and for 360 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,520 Speaker 1: all of the Brazilian people who came. It's like a dream, 361 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:48,600 Speaker 1: she says. I don't believe it. It's so emotional, and 362 00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,040 Speaker 1: I'd like to thank from the bottom of my heart 363 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,920 Speaker 1: all the people who came to the games, all who 364 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,280 Speaker 1: came to lift up Focibo Feminino. I pray to God 365 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:02,639 Speaker 1: that this key is happening, that it goes on for 366 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 1: the girls that remain here in Brazil after this season. Santos, 367 00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: we had won that cup in nineteen sixty three with 368 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,840 Speaker 1: the least team, so we took a long time for 369 00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:22,040 Speaker 1: that to happen again. The trophy finally came back to Santos. Meanwhile, 370 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:26,480 Speaker 1: that same year, two thousand and nine, another Brazilian magician 371 00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: is making their Santos FC professional debut, Seventeen year old 372 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 1: neymar Da Silva Santos Jr. The gifted teenager, will score 373 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 1: fourteen goals and show fabulous promise in spite of a 374 00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:44,120 Speaker 1: lackluster season by the men's side Santo. At that time 375 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:47,080 Speaker 1: in two thousand and ten, Santos had the best players 376 00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,000 Speaker 1: in the world. Pellet was an icon. He was also 377 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,199 Speaker 1: a spectator. We could see him in the stadium. We 378 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,880 Speaker 1: had Martha, the best in the world, and we had 379 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: Neymar who was becoming one of the best in the world. 380 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 1: So we had all of the icons that year. In 381 00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,479 Speaker 1: two thousand and eleven, Marta comes back again for another 382 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 1: Copa Libertadores, which they will again win. Marta will score 383 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:16,320 Speaker 1: twenty six goals in fourteen games. By now, on the 384 00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: men's side, Naymar is a shining star, the leading scorer 385 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 1: as he takes the men to their first Copa Libertadores 386 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:31,639 Speaker 1: championship since pal In December of that year, Marta and 387 00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:35,000 Speaker 1: Namar played together in a charity match. After the game, 388 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: Neymar sees Marta walk by and his face lights up. 389 00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,640 Speaker 1: He interrupts the reporter to call out to her. The 390 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:46,000 Speaker 1: pair high five, then lace their hands together. In their faces. 391 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:49,120 Speaker 1: You can see they are mutually awe struck. When the 392 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:53,120 Speaker 1: reporter said, here we are with two crack players, crack 393 00:28:53,360 --> 00:29:00,560 Speaker 1: being the ultimate compliment in Portuguese, Marta responded shyly, He's 394 00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,720 Speaker 1: more crack. He says, Na Na, She's the best in 395 00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:12,520 Speaker 1: the world. Just when you think you found FOOTI ball utopia. 396 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:17,400 Speaker 1: Then come the rumors the new Santos president is considering 397 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:25,720 Speaker 1: cutting the women's side. Here's Rika and Catlin being cut 398 00:29:25,760 --> 00:29:29,200 Speaker 1: off if you were winning everything, So that's the way 399 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: it's lend. And even so we kept on working, you know, 400 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:41,120 Speaker 1: winning cups, winning trophies and titles. But those rumors become reality. 401 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 1: The new Santos president announced the women's team was done. 402 00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:53,520 Speaker 1: I wept, I cried a lot. My childhood dreams simply disappeared. 403 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: And the press conference announcing that they were cutting the team, 404 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,040 Speaker 1: Erica cried, we played because we love to play. We 405 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:09,320 Speaker 1: just want to play. Over protests, the people rebelled against 406 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:13,160 Speaker 1: this decision. People graffited the walls of the club stadium. 407 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: People could not resign to the idea of the fact 408 00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:19,920 Speaker 1: that the women's team was coming to an end because 409 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: of the political turmoil, because after all, Santos had been 410 00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,360 Speaker 1: the best in the America's So this caused a lot 411 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:31,720 Speaker 1: of demonstration and marches out in the streets at the president. 412 00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:39,360 Speaker 1: Fuzzy the president had this meeting with us. He said 413 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: that he loved women's software. He adored us because he 414 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,440 Speaker 1: had a daughter who really loved sockers. Everything that a 415 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:51,080 Speaker 1: president usually says at these occasions. You know, it's just 416 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: because we don't have the sponsors now for the girls. 417 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: You know, they don't want to support you anymore. And 418 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:07,360 Speaker 1: some of the directors are also unhappy because the costs 419 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,840 Speaker 1: are too high and we could not understand what this 420 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,000 Speaker 1: is coming from. At the time, the women's team was 421 00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:18,400 Speaker 1: asked its entire operating budget was one point five million 422 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,240 Speaker 1: hayi's a year, which in two thousand and twelve was 423 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: around eight hundred and twenty six thousand dollars. The club 424 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,080 Speaker 1: was can currently paying Neymar a million hayes a month, 425 00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:32,880 Speaker 1: or around five hundred and fifty eight thousand two months 426 00:31:32,920 --> 00:31:36,400 Speaker 1: of Neymar's salary would run the women's team for more 427 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:44,400 Speaker 1: than a year. You know, what are the expenses? One 428 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 1: sponsorship at the time paid for the whole pay roll. 429 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:51,200 Speaker 1: He would always always mention, but the directors, the members 430 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: of the board, you know, oh, it's really complex. But 431 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:59,760 Speaker 1: Rika was not ready to give up. She asks the president, 432 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:04,760 Speaker 1: if we can get sponsors, can you continue to the 433 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:07,880 Speaker 1: women's soccer will we? He said yes, yes, Well, well 434 00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:10,760 Speaker 1: then go on. If you get the sponsors, then yes, 435 00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:16,040 Speaker 1: the whole thing feels like a movie. The protagonists faced 436 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:19,360 Speaker 1: with finding huge sums of money to stave off disaster. 437 00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:24,320 Speaker 1: Eric is not someone who is easily dissuaded. She's used 438 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 1: to hustling, even if that means fighting the fight. After 439 00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,800 Speaker 1: she's forced to move back home with her mom and 440 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:36,880 Speaker 1: Saalpolloa mine, my mother was all the time with me. 441 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:41,640 Speaker 1: She was like calling the banks, calling stores, Please don't 442 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,480 Speaker 1: you want to help the girls? But that was on 443 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: the other phone talking to other people, other players. I 444 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,080 Speaker 1: didn't want to eat, I wouldn't sleep, I don't give up. 445 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,120 Speaker 1: I go to the end. Everybody was saying that the 446 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:57,560 Speaker 1: media was saying that that's why women soccer was being 447 00:32:57,600 --> 00:33:02,600 Speaker 1: canceled because Neymar it attracted all the sponsors. All the 448 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:06,400 Speaker 1: sponsors wanted to sponsor Namar. In a press conference, when 449 00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: a reporter asked Nymar if he felt bad that his 450 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:13,160 Speaker 1: high salary had resulted in the dissolution of the women's team, 451 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:19,040 Speaker 1: president Louise Alvero grabbed the mic before Neymar could respond. Later, 452 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:22,840 Speaker 1: Neymar would say, of course I was sad. If it's 453 00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:26,360 Speaker 1: possible to help all help not just me. I think 454 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,520 Speaker 1: all the players could help just a little so that 455 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,880 Speaker 1: Fujiball Feminino can return. The women have won titles for 456 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,080 Speaker 1: us too, and the women's team takes him at his word. 457 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,000 Speaker 1: So the first thing that I thought is he likes 458 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: women's soccer. He has always liked us. And it's not 459 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:51,880 Speaker 1: that like we are nobody's you know, we have always 460 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:57,640 Speaker 1: been friends. So he would always watch our matches. We 461 00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:01,320 Speaker 1: were playing the base category as it's time in Santos, 462 00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:05,240 Speaker 1: and what was talked. We were getting the same bus. 463 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:10,400 Speaker 1: We were playing in uh places that were very close 464 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,439 Speaker 1: to each other. And the first thing that I thought, well, 465 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 1: he's very powerful. Maybe they can help us somehow. I 466 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,480 Speaker 1: was not asking for money. I was asking for an idea, 467 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,759 Speaker 1: a guidance to help women succer not to be canceled. 468 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 1: And Namur call me and they said, Erica, we are 469 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,919 Speaker 1: going to help you stay calm. And I would say, 470 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:37,279 Speaker 1: how can we stay calm? Everybody is unemployed, we don't 471 00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,080 Speaker 1: know what to do. And then he told me, my 472 00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,839 Speaker 1: father is going to get in touch with you and 473 00:34:42,880 --> 00:34:46,719 Speaker 1: he's going to solve whatever it's necessary. He's going to 474 00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,320 Speaker 1: help you. So she and a teammate or talk with 475 00:34:49,520 --> 00:35:00,279 Speaker 1: Namar's father. Prakilly follow Edica, because there's no bodies either. Keith. 476 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,000 Speaker 1: I told him everything that happened, and he said, Erica, 477 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:08,759 Speaker 1: you cannot go away. And it's not because of name are. 478 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,000 Speaker 1: That's because the president he doesn't want women's team anymore. 479 00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 1: The board doesn't want anymore. But you must fight. And 480 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 1: then I told him we don't have the power. The 481 00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 1: president says they need sponsors. Can you help me? And 482 00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,239 Speaker 1: then he said, yes I can. I'm going to get 483 00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:29,719 Speaker 1: your sponsors for you. You You girls in four days. Called 484 00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,759 Speaker 1: me back and then he said, Erica, I managed to 485 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:38,440 Speaker 1: get a bank as a sponsor, and also clothes brands 486 00:35:38,480 --> 00:35:43,000 Speaker 1: are close brands. I think it for four or five sponsors. 487 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:46,239 Speaker 1: That would add up to even more of what we 488 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,600 Speaker 1: had in the past. He said, Erica, it's going to 489 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,080 Speaker 1: work out. That's going to work. Rest assured. When I 490 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 1: went to the president with the news, smiling, and he 491 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: was said, Erica, this is not going to work, you know, 492 00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 1: because the members of the board and he was like this, 493 00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,480 Speaker 1: and he said, well, it's good to be hard. I 494 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:12,800 Speaker 1: don't know to have a women's team because many members 495 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:15,880 Speaker 1: of the board they don't like women soccer, you know. 496 00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,640 Speaker 1: And then I was crying and I said, why did 497 00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:21,920 Speaker 1: you lie to me? I asked him, why did you 498 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:23,880 Speaker 1: like me? And my mother was with me, you know, 499 00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:28,080 Speaker 1: in the room, and my mother she almost attacked him, 500 00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:31,640 Speaker 1: you know, she always flew in his neck because she 501 00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:35,319 Speaker 1: was like indignant, you know how he was wearing that 502 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:40,040 Speaker 1: face and telling us on our faces. And I said, 503 00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,359 Speaker 1: that's not possible, that that's what I'm hearing. And I 504 00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:47,480 Speaker 1: felt like that someone had pulled the rug from my feet. 505 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,719 Speaker 1: So the women not only won everything championships out of 506 00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:56,400 Speaker 1: the city, they also raised a million hay eyes to 507 00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:00,640 Speaker 1: bring back Footibo Feminino. And yet that's still told no, 508 00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:04,480 Speaker 1: you cannot have a team, you cannot play here. And 509 00:37:04,520 --> 00:37:08,120 Speaker 1: as for Marta, the greatest player in the world, this 510 00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,200 Speaker 1: is not the only time her team has gone under 511 00:37:10,520 --> 00:37:14,719 Speaker 1: Her very first team, Vasco da Gamma, it folded her 512 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:19,000 Speaker 1: second team, Minas cher Ice folded. When she went to 513 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 1: the US and led her l A Soul to the championship. 514 00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,800 Speaker 1: It too folded her second U S team, the FC 515 00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,239 Speaker 1: Gold Pride, she also led to a championship, and they 516 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,960 Speaker 1: too folded. Her third US Pro team, the Western New 517 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,799 Speaker 1: York Flash, also wins the Championship, and then the entire 518 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:40,160 Speaker 1: league folds. She heads to Sweden to play with tour 519 00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,479 Speaker 1: So and at the end of they too fold. That's 520 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:48,279 Speaker 1: seven teams that have gone under the best player in 521 00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:51,520 Speaker 1: the world struggle to find a team that could stay afloat. 522 00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,160 Speaker 1: But that's not where the story ends. They're simply foul. 523 00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:02,239 Speaker 1: Always tellman their fews. Any people will throw stones on 524 00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:06,120 Speaker 1: your way, you know, big stones, small stones. If you 525 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:09,280 Speaker 1: want to stumble on those stones and fall to the ground, 526 00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:13,080 Speaker 1: or if you want to get these stones, put them 527 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,400 Speaker 1: in your pocket and build your castle. Don't give up. 528 00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:19,280 Speaker 1: Go to the end. Erica has gone on to play 529 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,480 Speaker 1: all over the world and just won the Brazil Championship 530 00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:26,520 Speaker 1: with Corinthians. Three years after they cut the team. Santos 531 00:38:26,560 --> 00:38:28,960 Speaker 1: FC gets a new president and one of the first 532 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:32,759 Speaker 1: things he does is reinstate the women's team. Catlin, the 533 00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:34,960 Speaker 1: fifteen year old kid who traveled a dozen hours with 534 00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:36,680 Speaker 1: the suitcase to have a chance to play for her 535 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 1: grandma's team. She returned to Santos tortually became a star. 536 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,480 Speaker 1: She had records on top of records, and she's one 537 00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 1: of the best forward players that we have today in Brazil. 538 00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,360 Speaker 1: She goes on to become the leading goal scorer in 539 00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:56,000 Speaker 1: Santos FC women's history, joining Pele as one of the 540 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,319 Speaker 1: only players to score more than a hundred goals. To 541 00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,040 Speaker 1: mark the Asian, they painted a huge mural of her face. 542 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:07,359 Speaker 1: It stretches across the wall of the training center beside Pele. 543 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,400 Speaker 1: I was leaving the training session, walking by the wall, 544 00:39:12,760 --> 00:39:14,879 Speaker 1: and I looked up and I wondered, is that me? 545 00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:18,319 Speaker 1: That's my face on the wall? What is it doing there? 546 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,040 Speaker 1: And that's me? So my friends began screaming, you know, 547 00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:26,520 Speaker 1: celebrating together with me. I cried. So every day I 548 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:29,320 Speaker 1: go by the wall and I see my grandmother's idols 549 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:33,799 Speaker 1: bill called China, and I'm right next to them. And 550 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:38,040 Speaker 1: Martha She's found her home with the Orlando Pride. Two 551 00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,040 Speaker 1: is her sixth season with the team. It's the longest 552 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,680 Speaker 1: she's gone without a team folding on her. The Brazilian 553 00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:47,960 Speaker 1: women continue to fight for the game they love in 554 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,200 Speaker 1: when they are knocked out of the World Cup, and 555 00:39:51,280 --> 00:39:57,080 Speaker 1: emotional Martyr spoke to the camera, get a myth, my 556 00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:01,279 Speaker 1: it's wanting more. It's training more, it's taking care of 557 00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:05,720 Speaker 1: yourself more. It's being ready to play ninety plus thirty minutes. 558 00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:08,319 Speaker 1: This is what I ask of the girls. There's not 559 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,960 Speaker 1: going to be a martyr forever. There's not going to 560 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,600 Speaker 1: be a Christianity forever. There's not going to be a 561 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:18,200 Speaker 1: for Meger forever. The women's game depends on you to survive, 562 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,480 Speaker 1: So think about that. Value it more. Cry in the 563 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:27,000 Speaker 1: beginning so you can smile in the end. That may 564 00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,640 Speaker 1: be the entire journey through Fujibul Feminino in Brazil, summed 565 00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,600 Speaker 1: up in eleven words. Cry in the beginning so you 566 00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:37,080 Speaker 1: can smile in the end. Join us next week for 567 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:41,400 Speaker 1: the final episode of Hustle Rule, Shape Shifters, Side Hustlers 568 00:40:41,840 --> 00:41:01,759 Speaker 1: and the New guard Staff for nobn Haustle Rule is 569 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:06,720 Speaker 1: a production of Waffle Iron Entertainment, Range Media Partners, Observatory Audio, 570 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:10,040 Speaker 1: UP Media, and I Heart Radio, written and directed by 571 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:13,480 Speaker 1: Gwendolyn oxen Um, hosted by me Hannah Waddingham, and is 572 00:41:13,520 --> 00:41:15,799 Speaker 1: based on the book Under the Lights and in the Dark, 573 00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:19,440 Speaker 1: written by Gwendolyn oxen Um. The executive producers are Justin 574 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:23,920 Speaker 1: Biskin from Waffle Iron Entertainment, Bo Alligan from Range Media Partners, 575 00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,920 Speaker 1: and Shaan Titan from iHeart Radio. Co written by Ruth Hilton, 576 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:32,320 Speaker 1: Produced by Gwendolen oxen Um, Ruth Hilton and Jordana Glick Franzheim. 577 00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:36,480 Speaker 1: Co produced by Jimmy Jellinek and Jared Goodstadt, Edited by 578 00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:40,240 Speaker 1: Carry Colfield, Eric sound design and mixing by Jeremiah's Immerman. 579 00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,840 Speaker 1: Music by Jeff Peters and Bill mart Theme song performed 580 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,520 Speaker 1: by a One La Flair. You'll find more podcasts from 581 00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,759 Speaker 1: iHeart Radio on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or 582 00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:57,560 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Good