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Her skills as a player inspired Dutch coach Roger Reijners to select her for the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup squad. Martens did not let Reijners down, as she became the first player to score a Women's World Cup goal in Dutch team history during that tournament. Later on, she scored three goals in the Netherlands’s 2017 UEFA Women's Euro campaign. Other titles she has helped her teams win over the years include the 2011 BeNe Super Cup, the Svenska Cupen in 2015–2016, the Svenska Supercupen in 2016, and the Copa de la Reina de Fútbol in 2018. The most prominent example of Martens’ playing excellence

After Martens joined the team, Barcelona won its league championship by a whopping 14-point margin.

came during her debut season with FC Barcelona in 2017. The club had been increasing its success over the previous few years before adding Martens's, but she helped to take them over the top. Just how much did they improve over that time? With Martens’s help, her squad won their first four games by a shocking goal differential of 23–0. That is just under a 6–0 scoring average and was, by far, the best differential in the league during that period. Barcelona ended the season as the top team in La Liga with ninety-three points, scoring ninety-nine goals versus twenty-nine scored against them. They won twenty-eight games, drew nine, and lost just one. Their closest competitor, Atlético Madrid, had only seventy-nine points and fifty-eight goals scored on twenty-two scored against with a record of 38–5–10.

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