2023-08-02 12:39:12
Marta Cox definitely experienced intense first minutes during this Panama-France. Visibly very moved, in tears when the Panamanian anthem resounded in the Sydney Football Stadium, the number 10 of the Canaleras distinguished herself from the 2nd minute of play by opening the scoring with a simply magnificent free kick.
#FIFAWWC | ????????⚡???????? MARTA COX’S EXCEPTIONAL FREE KICK FOR PANAMA!
☄ The captain scores the 1st goal in the history of the Canaleras in the World Cup on this missile, she is in tears! The Blue ones are already carried out!
???? The live game: pic.twitter.com/4fVfp8onWN
— francetvsport (@francetvsport) August 2, 2023
A goal that she signed 100%, since it was also she who had got the fault in the very first seconds of the game, in the duel with Léa Le Garrec about thirty meters from the cages of Pauline Peyraud-Magnin. The rest is an alliance of power and control: a dry, brushed strike, which rose in the Australian sky to come down just as dry in the skylight of the French goalkeeper. The clock shows 1:08 when Les Bleues are already behind in this third and final group match of their World Cup.
The celebration of Cox, who slipped to her knees before lying on the pitch, in tears, and being submerged under her teammates who came to celebrate her, says it all about the importance of this goal, the very first of the history for this small football nation in the World Cup, for the player as well as for the team, already eliminated. Before the competition, Cox confided on the FIFA website that she had lost her mother during the qualifying campaign for the tournament. This goal will serve as a beautiful tribute, and an exit with heads held high for the Panamanians of the adventure in Oceania. Before Bleues reacted, we never got tired of the slow motion of this opener.
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