Ma Li (footballer)

Ma Li
马莉
Personal information
Full name	Ma Li
Date of birth	3 March 1969 (age 55)
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
	Beijing
	Matsushita Denki
International career‡
	China
Medal record
Women's football
Representing China
Asian Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, 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]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	16 November 1991	Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou, China	Norway	1–0	4–0	1991 FIFA Women's World Cup

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

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

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