Ma Li (footballer) explained

Ma Li 马莉
Fullname:	Ma Li
Birth Date:	3 March 1969
Height:	171cm
Position:	Defender
Clubs1:	Beijing
Clubs2:	Matsushita Denki
Nationalteam1:	China
Club-Update:	15 June 2015
Nationalteam-Update:	15 June 2015

Ma Li (; 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.^[1] 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.^[2] She headed Wu Weiying's free kick from the right flank past Norway's goalkeeper Reidun Seth.^[3]

Personal life

Ma later emigrated to Brazil, where as of April 2016 she was working as a businesswoman.^[3]

Notes and References

Web site: FIFA Women's World Cup China '91 - Technical Report & Statistics . https://web.archive.org/web/20111227003624/http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/afdeveloping/technicaldevp/50/08/19/wwc%5f91%5ftr%5fpart2%5f260.pdf . dead . December 27, 2011 . FIFA. 16 June 2015. 66.
Web site: 1 day to go. https://web.archive.org/web/20150607174143/http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/news/y=2015/m=6/news=1-day-to-go-2617762.html. dead. June 7, 2015. FIFA. 16 June 2015. 5 June 2015.
News: Ma: Scoring first Women's World Cup goal was special. https://web.archive.org/web/20160629094610/http://www.fifa.com/womensworldcup/news/y=2016/m=4/news=ma-scoring-first-women-s-world-cup-goal-was-special-2779998.html. dead. June 29, 2016. 27 November 2016. FIFA. 9 April 2016.