Jamaica created historical past by qualifying to the second spherical of the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup Event once they held mighty Brazil 0-0 in entrance of 27,000-plus spectators contained in the Melbourne Rectangular Stadium on Wednesday morning.
The Jamaicans, in solely their second World Cup Event, had opened Group F with a 0-0 end result in opposition to group winners France, who hammered pointless Panama 6-3 within the different group recreation.
Jamaica then edged CONCACAF neighbours Panama 1-0 on an Allyson Swaby header to place the Reggae Girlz in pole place forward of Brazil for the second spot from the group.
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On Wednesday morning, Brazil have been a lot the higher staff in possession and possibilities created however the Jamaicans, as they’ve completed to this point within the three video games, stood resolutely and defiantly in any respect assaults thrown at them.
In dumping out the South American champions, the Reggae Girlz inflicted a extreme blow on Pia Sundhage’s Brazil, and definitely pulled the curtain on the profession of one of many best ladies’s participant of all time, six-time FIFA World Participant of the 12 months, Marta, who began the sport earlier than being substituted late within the second half.
It was Brazil’s earliest elimination on the group stage in over six World Cup cycles.
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Goalkeeper Rebecca Spencer was one of many excellent gamers for Jamaica, proving equal to the duty at denying all efforts on purpose and showing to be in the appropriate place always.
Jamaica will now face the winner of Group H, presently being led by South America’s Colombia on August 8 within the Spherical of 16 knockout. It’s the first time a Caribbean staff has superior to the knockout spherical of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup Event, a unprecedented accomplishment for a staff which had its ladies’s programme scrapped a decade in the past.