The Brazilian women's soccer team has never won a World Cup or an Olympic title. Until the gold medal match between the United States and Brazil in the women's soccer event at the Paris 2024 Olympics (taking place on August 10), Brazilian women's soccer was still far behind the illustrious achievements of their opponents. The best achievement of the Brazilian women's soccer team at the World Cup was only second place in 2007. In the Olympic arena, Brazil won silver medals twice in 2004 and 2008, but has never won a gold medal. Compared to their opponent in the final match of the Paris 2024 Olympics, the United States team, Brazil is far behind. The US women's soccer team has won the World Cup four times (1991, 1999, 2015 and 2019), and won the Olympic gold medal four times (1996, 2004, 2008 and 2012).

Compared to the US women's soccer team, the Brazilian women's soccer team is like a "tiny girl". This is a completely opposite situation when comparing the stature of the Brazilian men's soccer team and the US men's soccer team. The reason for this phenomenon is because the nature of men's soccer is very different from women's soccer. Brazilian soccer has long emphasized the role of improvisation and the individual role of the stars in the team. They once had a player named Marta da Silva who was sometimes called "the Pele of women's soccer". But even during Marta's golden age a few years ago, the Brazilian women's team had never reached the highest podium of major tournaments such as the World Cup and the Olympics.

If in men's football, there are still players capable of single-handedly changing the game, even the tournament, like Brazil's "king of football" Pele, Argentina's "golden boy" Maradona in the past, or Argentina's Lionel Messi at the 2022 World Cup, then in women's football, due to the physical characteristics and limited flexibility of women in general, female players cannot do this. Therefore, teams that are too dependent on the role of individuals, depending on improvisation like Brazil, Argentina in South America, or Portugal, Netherlands in Europe are not strong teams on the world stage. On the contrary, teams that play scientifically , closely, and have a high team spirit like the US, Germany, and Japan are extremely successful teams.

The Brazilian women's team at the 2024 Paris Olympics is also changing in the direction of promoting team spirit and collective play, instead of waiting for the stars to shine. Thanks to changing their style, being willing to accept playing as an "underdog" against some opponents (such as the matches against current World Cup champions Spain and former World Cup champions Japan), instead of insisting on pushing up the attacking formation in every match, Brazil at the 2024 Paris Olympics was able to enter the gold medal match. Facing the US team on August 10, Brazil probably also needs to know who they are, what their professional capacity is compared to the most successful team in the world, to have appropriate countermeasures, before aiming for the first noble title in the history of Brazilian women's football.

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