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Her earlier years, growing up in Salvador, were especially painful. Formiga has played in 15 matches across all competitions for PSG, completing the full 90 on 12 occasions. “My mother always supported me,” she says. “It’s hard to say, really, what goes through my head, but it’s a bit like a film going through my mind,” she explains, “with key people that had an influence. Chelsea Women can attest to the hostility of the Stade Jean-Bouin, PSG Feminine's home adjacent to the Parc des Princes, which in 2019 showed the London club the full gamut of flares, flags and shirtless fans. Formiga will extend her professional career into a 27th season after signing a one-year contract extension with Paris Saint-Germain's women side. Players like Thaisa, Andressinha and Poliana have put together solid careers, but have never quite managed to fill Formiga’s shoes. “That was one thing that was lacking in my career. She’s much more of a holding player now, and she’s gotten so good at positioning herself in a defensive role that she can stifle opposition attacks and run the show in midfield without having to move much at all. She is also still yet to have her first major injury. Formiga Data de aniversário 3 de março de 1978, Salvador (Brasil) Nacionalidade Brasileira Perfil 162cm / 55kg Características Dextra Assinatura pelo PSG 31 de janeiro de 2017 Posição Meio-campistas. Centrocampistas Carrera.
42-year-old Formiga still rules and isn’t quitting anytime soon, made headlines during the World Cup with a speech, As my colleague Sam Gregory pointed out to me. For the first 20 years of her career, Formiga was a highly active box-to-box midfielder who provided a serious goal-scoring threat. She’s not good enough!
She’s the oldest player to ever appear at the World Cup at 41, and she’s the only player to play at seven World Cups. My mother was number one in that respect.”, Now she is a mother herself, of sorts, to PSG’s young players. Somos juntos Formiga ✍ #Formiga2021 pic.twitter.com/ykh5ud0lpr. There’s been a Formiga in professional soccer for 27 years, and she’s still a vital player for club and country. Dax is about 100km from San Sebastian, where PSG will face Arsenal - the final English team remaining in the competition - over one leg in the quarter finals. Meio-campistas Carreira. No one thought she’d still be this good at 42. While I’m still healthy, I’m still going to carry on.”. Marta, who has been Formiga’s teammate for 18 years now, made headlines during the World Cup with a speech in which she said “there’s not going to be a Formiga forever.” As my colleague Sam Gregory pointed out to me, she might have been wrong. It was really my mum’s strength that got me here. Champions League quarter-final between her Paris St-Germain side and Arsenal in nearby San Sebastian, the final English team remaining in the competition. I’d like to win trophies here. 18-year-old Yaya Vitoria looks like a massive talent, but far from ready to marshal the midfield for the Seleção. My mother supported my dream to play for the Brazil national team.”, Formiga thinks of her mother each time she plays. “To play in the Women’s Champions League was a major motivation [for joining PSG],” she says. By the time Marta and her teammates took the World Cup by storm in 2007, Formiga was already an established 29-year-old veteran, leading a team of exciting youngsters. Incredibly, Formiga seems up to the task of sticking around for at least one more year while coach Pia Sundhage gets Yaya or another youngster up to speed.
The first time Formiga stepped onto the pitch for a senior club match was 1993. All my career, I knew I couldn’t give up from what she taught me. I was planning to retire from playing for the national team after the Rio 2016 Olympics - then I carried on.
Maybe I’ll go back to Brazil and play another year. And before moving on, let’s just marvel at the fact that a 37-year-old still possessed the level of athleticism that Formiga showed off in this goal against South Korea. “The body is my tool for my job,” she says, simply. I still have goals that I want to achieve. “My brothers didn’t. It is, rather, a nickname, meaning ‘ant’ in Portuguese, inspired by Formiga’s graceful, unselfish playing style that is akin to how ants work in a colony.
Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. I have just asked the oldest goalscorer in the history of the Women’s Champions League if anyone in her family is still going like this at her age.
On Thursday, Paris Saint-Germain announced that it had extended Formiga’s contract for another season. On Saturday, against Arsenal, PSG will hope likewise to become greater than the sum of their parts. 'I’m in the prime of life. She told me to say strong, to be true to myself, to be honest. Formiga might not have quite the same burst of pace that she did a few years ago, but she’s finding ways to contribute without it. Before Les Parisiennes alighted the train that would take them to Dax this week, they were greeted by a light show from a pack of ultras unleashing flares outside the station.