Reggae Girlz to face Brazil and France in Group F of the 2023 Girls’s World Cup

Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz will go up in opposition to Brazil and France within the group stage of the ladies’s soccer World Cup subsequent summer season.

The draw was made at a ceremony in Auckland on Saturday.

The Reggae Girlz have been drawn in Group F and also will face a playoff winner nonetheless to be decided in a event expanded for the primary time to 32 groups drawn into eight teams of 4.

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Jamaica booked their ticket to the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup with a commanding 4-0 thumping of Caribbean neighbors Haiti inside Estadio BBVA Bancomer in Monterrey, Mexico.

Captain Khadija “Bunny” Shaw led the best way with a brace, sandwiched by the opener from Trudi Carter and the nearer by Drew Spencer.

The win secured Jamaica second place within the aggressive Group A behind world champions the USA and confirmed qualification to the 2023 FIFA Girls’s World Cup Finals slated for Australia/New Zealand.

It was the second time in historical past {that a} Caribbean crew certified for a Girls’s World Cup.

Jamaica’s second qualification to the Girls’s World Cup got here 4 years after they created historical past in the US by changing into the primary Caribbean crew to succeed in the occasion.

The final time the Reggae Girlz went up in opposition to Brazil they have been crushed 3-0 with veteran ahead Cristiane scoring all of the targets.

4-time champion the USA have been drawn in Group E with Vietnam, the Netherlands and a playoff winner nonetheless to be decided.

The three playoff winners can be decided by means of inter-continental qualifying matches in Auckland in February.

The draw was performed in the identical method as the boys’s World Cup: groups have been divided into 4 “pots” of eight groups based mostly on FIFA world rankings.

Group A: New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Switzerland.
Group B: Australia, Eire, Nigeria, Canada.
Group C: Spain, Costa Rica, Zambia, Japan.
Group D: England, Group B playoff winner, Denmark, China.
Group E: United States, Vietnam, the Netherlands, Group A playoff winner.
Group F: France, Jamaica, Brazil, Group C playoff winner.
Group G: Sweden, South Africa, Italy, Argentina.
Group H: Germany, Morocco, Colombia, South Korea.

New Zealand will play Norway within the opening match of the event at Auckland on July 20 and Australia open later that day in opposition to first-time qualifiers Eire.

The draw was performed in entrance of an viewers of greater than 800 together with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Australia sports activities minister Anika Wells. Two-time World Cup winner Carli Lloyd of the US, former England striker Ian Wright and Brazil World Cup-winner Gilberto Silva have been amongst stars who assisted within the draw.