Brazil striker Cristiane became the oldest person to score a hat-trick in World Cup history as her treble handed debutants Jamaica a 3-0 loss.
The South American champions were missing legendary forward Marta, the all-time leading scorer in Women's World Cups, through injury in Grenoble.
But they got their Group C campaign off to a flying start as Cristiane headed the first before tapping home a second.
And a fine free-kick gave the 34-year-old the first hat-trick at France 2019.
Cristiane, who plays her club football in her home country for Sao Paulo, is the oldest player to score a World Cup hat-trick in either the men's and women's game.
Aged 34 years and 25 days, she beat the record held by Cristiano Ronaldo, who was 33 years and 130 days old when he scored a hat-trick in Portugal's 3-3 draw with Spain at the men's World Cup in Russia in June 2018.
wrapped
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jamaica’s gk, sydney schneider, is only 19 years old and still in college, yet has already made multiple critical saves against brazil in jamaica’s first wwc appearance
Ironkings
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Cristiane becomes the 9th player to score 10+ World Cup goals. In terms of major tourney goals (WC + OLY), she passes Abby Wambach and ties Birgit Prinz for second all time with 24. 🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩
Rosaboss
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Unlike the other lopsided results, this game has been more about Brazil being good than Jamaica being bad. Debinha and Andressa Alves have been excellent. Brazil CBs better than I expected.