Marta inconsolable after red card at Paris 2024 Olympics

Marta's Olympic football career is in the balance, following her red card against Spain in Brazil's final group game on Wednesday (31 July).

Competing in her sixth Games at Paris 2024, the 38-year-old was dismissed for a high-footed challenge on Olga Carmona.

Earlier this year, the legendary no.10 to feature again.announced that she will retire from international football at the end of 2024 and this incident left her visibly emotional as she made her way off the pitch.

At Tokyo 2020, she became the first player to score at five consecutive Olympic Games and currently holds the record for the most goals scored in World Cup appearances - men or women - with 17.

The South Americans still have a chance to progress to the quarter-finals, and if they win that match, to extend two-time Olympic silver medallist Marta's Olympic career.

Fellow third-place teams in their respective groups, Canada and Australia, are still to play, and the result of those matches will determine Brazil's fate at Paris 2024.

• Why there will never be another like Marta

Marta’s international honours

Brazil

• Pan American Games – 2003, 2007
• Sudamericano Femenino – 2003, 2010, 2018
• FIFA Women’s World Cup runner-up – 2007
• Olympic silver medallist – 2004, 2008

Individual

• FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year – 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2018
• FIFPro World XI – 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021
• FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Golden Ball – 2004
• FIFA Women’s World Cup Golden Boot – 2007
• FIFA Women’s World Cup Golden Ball – 2007
• FIFA Best (Special Award) – 2023
• IFFHS World’s Best Women’s Playmaker – 2012
• IFFHS Women’s World Team – 2018
• IFFHS Women’s Player of the Decade – 2011-2020
• IFFHS CONMEBOL Women’s Player of the Decade – 2011-2020
• IFFHS Women’s Team of the Decade – 2011-2020
• IFFHS CONMEBOL Women’s Team of the Decade – 2011-2020