Brazil icon Marta scores record 15th Women's World Cup goal

Marta stands alone as the most prolific scorer in Women's World Cup history.

The Brazilian superstar, a five-time winner of FIFA's Women's World Player of the Year, scored her 15th World Cup goal Tuesday against South Korea, surpassing retired German legend Birgit Prinz for the most all-time.

The goal, a calmly slotted penalty into the bottom corner, was her 15th World Cup goal in as many matches. A tad anticlimactic, perhaps, but an incredible achievement nonetheless.

This year's competition, held in Canada, is Marta's fourth World Cup, as the 29-year-old had previously starred for the Selecao in 2003 (United States), 2007 (China) and 2011 (Germany). She scored three goals in her debut competition, following that up with a massive haul of seven in China - when she was voted the tournament's best player after leading Brazil to the final, where they would ultimately lose to Germany.

She then added a quartet of goals four years later, but victory eluded her yet again, as the South American juggernauts were denied their first World Cup title in disappointing fashion, losing to the United States on penalties in the quarterfinals.

With the individual honor now taken care of, the best female footballer on the planet will have one goal in mind, and one goal only: deliver Brazil the one football crown that has always eluded them.

Pressure? Not for the newly-minted queen of World Cup scoring.

"I do not see it as extra pressure because I am used to always being pressured," she said prior to the tournament.

"I am very competitive and throughout my whole life the biggest pressure on me is what I put on myself. In Brazil there is this common feeling that we always need to be first, we are very competitive. So this is something that is very normal to me."

So is scoring goals, and nobody in the history of the Women's World Cup does it better.