The Brazil women's national rugby union team are the national side of

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, representing them at

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. After several successful performances at Sevens rugby, they played their first 15-a-side fixture in May 2008 against Netherlands and lost 10–0. The team wasn't formed again until 2019, when Brazil visited Colombia for its first match against South American opposition. In 2020, Brazil and Colombia played again in

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, in a match that was the first one in a

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qualifiers.

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defeated Brazil by 23-19.

History

The first women's rugby match known in Brazil took place in 1987, during São Paulo Athletic Club's traditional end-of-year sevens tournament. Most of the players were the girlfriends and sisters of the men's team players, who always accompanied them to games and practices. In 1997, during Women's Day, another match took place in

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, in

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. Maria Mikaella, former captain of Brazilian National Team, played that match made a little statement about how it was

"''we didn't know the sport. In Brazil we didn't have rugby on TV or even a rugby ball to buy. We haven't heard about rugby until our friends began to play. We started just watching, but the sport seemed to be really cool to just watch. So we convinced the boys to teach us. The first game was messy. I just remember that we lost. However made us fall in love with rugby.''"

Results summary

''(Full internationals only)''

Results

Full internationals

References

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