The present study aims to analyze the history of Marta da Silva s intersectional leadership in the soccer world through a microhistorical lens. This research consists of an individual level case study regarding the career trajectory of the chosen subject. The methodology applied was of a qualitative nature, with the research;s data collection is based dominantly on secondary data retrieved from articles, newspapers, biographies and other media related to Marta da Silva. The primary data consisted of interviews with professional soccer players. The analysis discusses Marta s brief history and emergence in her career, in order to contextualize her ascendence to the status she currently holds as one of the main athletes in the sport. Then follows to a presentation of the facets of Marta s leadership as a woman; a soccer player; as a benefactor against poverty and the impacts she had on society and on the market. Finally, the research takes a turn into the intersectional analysis of those facets.