The iconic midfielder will don the Selecao's yellow-and-inexperienced jersey for the last time in a friendly in opposition to India on November 25 within the northern town of Manaus, stated the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF).
"With 233 caps to her name, the forty three-year-antique midfielder will return to the team for a farewell to the jersey she has so commemorated," the CBF said in a announcement.
"Formiga is one of the finest gamers Brazil has ever had," girls's countrywide crew coordinator Duda Luizelli told a news conference.
Formiga, who left Paris Saint-Germain in June to signal with Sao Paulo FC until December 2022, is the simplest participant to have taken element in all seven variants of the girls's Olympic football match.
The legendary variety eight won silver medals (2004 and 2008), and became still in the starting line-up for this 12 months's Tokyo Games, wherein Brazil misplaced to Canada within the quarter-finals.
When she got here off mid-healthy that day, Formiga become replaced by way of a participant 23 years her junior.
Formiga, whose nickname way "ant," became born Miraildes Maciel Mota in the northeastern metropolis of Salvador in 1978.
At the time, it become nevertheless unlawful for girls in Brazil to play soccer, a recreation deemed "incompatible with their nature" below a 1941 regulation that became repealed in 1979.
She made her debut with the national team in 1995, at age 17.
The indefatigable midfielder is the most effective footballer in either the guys's or girls's sport to play in seven World Cups (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019).
