Brazil will be the first South American nation to participate in a World Cup when they face England in only their third international match on Tuesday.
The Amazonas lost narrowly to France in their only warm-up match on Thursday, having started at international level with a 48-0 win over Argentina in 2018.
“We are so proud because we are making history for Brazil and South America,” captain Maria Graf said.
Coach Paul Grundy added: “We’ve come to play and we’ve come to win.”
He continued: “We haven’t played a lot but the girls learn at an extremely rapid rate.”
Despite their inexperience at international level, Brazil were selected as one of the eight teams to compete at the Rugby League World Cup based on infrastructure, plans for growth and potential impact at the delayed 2021 tournament.
With their national team only forming in 2018, the talent pool for selection is around 150 players deep and six of their 23-woman squad only took up the sport in the last 12 months.
The new-look squad contains players who have previously competed in football, basketball and handball.
Although nine of the squad hail from the full-time Melina club, Ana Loschi de Quadros was the only player with experience of playing overseas before their loss against France.
In contrast to the Women’s Super League competition in England and the full-time NRLW in Australia, domestic teams in Brazil face 1,000-mile-plus bus journeys to fulfil fixtures, while a number of players including captain Graf, a personal trainer in Florianopolis, travel for more than 24 hours just to meet in Sao Paulo.
Yet despite those constraints, Grundy believes his squad has the talent and samba flair to cause some surprises.
“Some of them will play in the NRLW easily,” Grundy added.
“A couple of them are probably well up to it and they constantly talk about living in England and Australia in places where they can develop their rugby league and they are in constant competition.
“At the moment they play when they can. To give you an idea, it took one team 27 hours to bus from their town to play a competition game.
“Flying a team is just not something you can afford. We have spoken to the girls about playing in the NRLW and there are girls I think that are up to it.” (BBC)