Edu Menezes

#GoEqual

The most decorated footballer alive went out at a World Cup with the logo on her boots blacked out.

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Client
Marta / Go Equal Movement
Agency
Africa Creative DDB
Role
Motion Design
Year
2019

The brief

No one in football, men’s or women’s, has won more individual titles than Marta. The sponsorship she was offered was a fraction of what the men were being paid, and she turned it down.

The idea

Black out the mark and put an equals sign where it was, in pink and blue. She wore them at the World Cup, scored the goal that made her the tournament’s all-time top scorer, and pointed down at her feet.
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The result

426 million impressions and US$11.6m in earned media value, and an argument about equal pay in sport that went global.

Credits

Creative LeadershipSergio Gordilho, Matias Menendez, Rodrigo Marangoni

CreativeChico Medeiros, Mateus Oliveira

Social MediaSabrina Teixeira, Dayana Teixeira

Motion DesignEdu Menezes

ProjectGo Equal Movement / Marta