retinha and Sissi each scored three times and Brazil lived up to its reputation as the best non-seeded team at the Women's World Cup yesterday with a 7-1 rout of Mexico at East Rutherford, N.J.
Katia added a penalty kick goal as Mexico couldn't stay with Brazil.
Pretinha took only 130 seconds to score and put her side ahead, 2-0, after only 12 minutes. Sissi added two first-half goals in the final 22 minutes as Brazil put Mexico on the defensive almost from the start.
Played as the second game of the opening-day doubleheader after the United States beat Denmark, 3-0, many in the record crowd of 78,792 at Giants Stadium had left by the start of the second half.
Brazil, considered by many the fifth best team in the world behind the United States, Norway, China, and Germany, moved forward from the opening kickoff.
Pretinha sent a leftfooted blast past Linnea Quinones in the third minute. Maribel Dominguez tied it seven minutes later, sending a shot from 30 yards just past the outstretched arms of goalkeeper Maravilha and barely inside the far post.
It was the only shot on goal Mexico would get all half.
China 2, Sweden 1- Tight play, sharp passing and superb goalkeeping led China to a victory over Sweden in San Jose, Calif.
Swedish midfielder Kristen Bengtsson, the oldest player on the team at 29, scored the first goal just two minutes into the game - cracking a hard, high ball into the upper left corner of the net.
China's goalie, Gao Hong, got her hand on it but the ball slid in.
The second-fastest goal in Women's World Cup history - Sweden scored in the first minute in 1991 against Japan - was also Sweden's only goal of the game.
Fifteen minutes later, China came back when Liu Ying knocked a sweeping corner kick across the front of Sweden's goal and Jin Yan headed it down into the corner, just past the fingertips of diving goalie Ulrika Karlsson.
China's decisive goal came in the 68th minute when Liu Ailing kicked a low, fast shot into the middle of the net. Her goal, assisted by Liu Ying, came off a string of seven passes all the way down the field by China.
Japan 1, Canada 1- Nami Otake headed toward the goal as soon as she saw the shot. The rebound landed at her feet, and a moment later she tapped the ball into an open net, giving Japan a tie in its Cup opener in San Jose, Calif.
Silvana Burtini scored in the first half for Canada. Japan came out of its defensive shell in the second half, scoring the tying goal minutes after Burtini left the field with a reaggravated left hamstring injury.
Tamaki Uchiyama took a long shot with her left foot that slammed off the crossbar and ricocheted in front of the net. Canadian goalie Nicci Wright had no time to recover before Otake slid the ball into the net in the 64th minute.
