Ma Li (footballer)

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Ma Li
马莉
Personal information
Full name Ma Li
Date of birth (1969-03-03) 3 March 1969 (age 52)
Height 171 cm (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Beijing
Matsushita Denki
National team‡
China
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15 June 2015
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 June 2015

Ma Li (Chinese: 马莉; born 3 March 1969) is a Chinese former footballer who played for the China women's national football team.

International career[]

At the 1991 FIFA Women's World Cup, central defender Ma played the full 80 minutes in all four of China's games. The hosts reached the quarter-finals before losing 1–0 to Sweden.[2] Ma scored the first ever goal at a FIFA Women's World Cup after 22 minutes of the opening match; China's 4–0 win over eventual finalists Norway on 16 November 1991.[3] She headed Wu Weiying's free kick from the right flank past Norway's goalkeeper Reidun Seth.[1]

Personal life[]

Ma later emigrated to Brazil, where as of April 2016 she was working as a businesswoman.[1]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Ma: Scoring first Women's World Cup goal was special". FIFA. 9 April 2016. Archived from the original on June 29, 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
  2. ^ "FIFA Women's World Cup China '91 - Technical Report & Statistics" (PDF). FIFA. p. 66. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 27, 2011. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  3. ^ "1 day to go". FIFA. 5 June 2015. Archived from the original on June 7, 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2015.

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