‘Breath of contemporary air’: Haiti qualify for first Girls’s World Cup | Soccer Information

Haiti beat Chile to qualify for first FIFA World Cup match, which will probably be hosted by New Zealand and Australia.

Haiti’s nationwide soccer crew has crushed Chile 2-1 to safe the nation’s first-ever look at a FIFA Girls’s World Cup.

Melchie Dumornay scored twice throughout Wednesday’s match to make sure Fifty fifth-ranked Haiti will now play in Group D of the 2023 Girls’s World Cup alongside England, China and Denmark.

Previous to the 10-team qualifying match in New Zealand, midfielder Danielle Etienne advised ESPN “there’s numerous unhappiness within the nation and soccer is the enjoyment”.

Haiti has been hit with a raft of crises, with the assassination of President Jovenel Moise in 2021 including to the nation’s insecurity amid a sequence of pure disasters.

Haiti hit the griddy! 💃

We’ll see you on the #FIFAWWC! 😎@fhfhaiti | #FIFAWWC pic.twitter.com/YfJJFBAXJJ

— FIFA Girls’s World Cup (@FIFAWWC) February 22, 2023

Most lately, the United Nations human rights chief appealed to the worldwide neighborhood to think about deploying a specialised armed drive to the nation to revive order as accounts of killings, raping and pillaging dedicated by influential gangs, who management massive swaths of the nation, have soared.

“Having the ability to qualify for the World Cup can be main,” Etienne mentioned. “We wish that for the nation as an entire, to have a breath of contemporary air and sort of step except for something happening.”

Haiti is the primary of three groups to qualify for the finals in the course of the intercontinental playoff.

Cele on level from @fhfhaiti‘s Melchie Dumornay! 🔥#FIFAWWC | #BeyondGreatness pic.twitter.com/KSA5jb0goV

— FIFA Girls’s World Cup (@FIFAWWC) February 22, 2023

Portugal will play Cameroon within the Group A playoff afterward Wednesday and Paraguay will play Panama on Thursday for the final locations within the 32-team match which will probably be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand.

Haitian gamers shed tears of pleasure when the ultimate whistle blew. That they had defeated Senegal 4-0 of their opening match.

On Twitter, Haiti’s soccer federation hailed the “unforgettable night for our Grenadières in Auckland”.

Haïti ConcacafW: Qualification historique des Grenadières pour le mondial féminin Australie-Nouvelle-Zélande qui se tiendra du 20 juillet au 20 août de cette année.

Une soirée inoubliable pour nos Grenadières à Auckland après un lengthy match.#Grenadyealaso pic.twitter.com/Wq4pbueR4e

— Fédération Haïtienne de Soccer (@fhfhaiti) February 22, 2023

Star participant Dumornay, who was lately signed by seven-time Champions League winners Lyon, gained the race to a by way of ball in first-half stoppage time to provide Haiti a 1-0 lead on the break.

She added one other objective within the eighth of 11 minutes added on by the referee after Chile captain Christiane Endler had saved Nerilia Mondesir’s try from the penalty spot.

However Maria Jose Rojas scored within the eleventh minute of stoppage time to maintain Chile’s hopes alive – making a last few moments of nerve-racking play.