2023-07-28 10:30:11
In her first match ever in the World Cup, the 23-year-old, who defends the colors of American Racing Louisville, achieved an achievement that the legends of the men’s national team, from the late Pele to Neymar, through Ronaldo and Ronaldinho, might not.
Not only did Borges score a hat-trick, but she also provided the assist for Beatriz’s third goal in the match once morest Panama.
The pass was the most beautiful of the three goals it scored, as it delivered the ball to Beatriz with a distinguished technical movement with the heel of the foot, as a result of a wonderful group game that brought back to mind what the Brazilian football was like in the past.
And the inability of any player or player to score three goals in the first match in the World Cup, which makes Borges’ achievement engraved in the minds of Brazil fans, who are still searching for their first world title for women, while their last crowning for men dates back to 2002 when they won the world title for the fifth time. .
For Borges, the match once morest Panama was “one of the best days of my life”.
“like fire”
The magical evening of the daughter of São Luís, in Maranhão (northeast Brazil), was completed when she came out a quarter of an hour before the end to the applause of the crowd, to be replaced by her role model Marta, who is competing for the sixth and last time in the finals since she is thirty-seven years old.
For Marta, who hopes to win the title in her last appearance, “scoring three goals in her debut is not easy. But she was on another level. With her assist, it can be said that she scored almost four goals. I am honored to have come on as a substitute.” A tribute that carries a lot of significance and pride for Burgess.
Burgess hopes to continue to shine when Brazil meets France on Saturday in Brisbane, in a meeting through which she will guarantee the final price tag in the event of victory, especially since her opponent tied negatively in the first round with Jamaica.
In order to reach the top, Borges, whose full name is Ariadna Alves Borges, quickly burned the stages, starting from her childhood and having to stay with her grandmother away from her parents who left in search of a better life in Sao Paulo, all the way to joining the American Professional League to defend the colors of Racing Louisville for the season 2023.
Between the two periods, the player passed through Centro Olimpico, one of Sao Paulo’s clubs, then Sport Recife, Sao Paulo FC and finally Palmeiras, where she scored 34 goals in 83 games over the past three years and won the Copa Libertadores title, parallel to the European Champions League.
In an interview with the Australian “Optus Sport” network, American Jess McDonald spoke regarding her colleague in Louisville, saying, “I am happy for her. I long for the world to know who she really is. She was like a burning fire since pre-season.”
“I will never forget her first training session with us in Louisville. She scored a great goal with a great acrobatic backhand,” she added.
In the renewed and ambitious Brazilian national team once once more under the leadership of the inimitable Swedish coach Pia Sundhage, who led it to the 2022 Copa America title, Borges became a symbol following one match on the world stage.
For the player herself, “It’s really moving for me to look back on what I’ve done so far.” There were smiles, there were tears. It’s a dream to be here.”
Against France, Bourges will never refuse any more tears of joy.
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