The New Zealand women's soccer team enjoyed a goal-feast, beating Singapore 14-0 in an Olympics warm-up in the city-state last night.
Strikers Amber Hearn, Emma Kete and Renee Leota each struck their first international hat-tricks with Hearn and Kete finding the back of the net four times.
MidfieldersKirsty Yallop, two, and Merissa Smith also netted as New Zealand ran riot in each of the match's three periods, scoring four goals in the first half hour and five each in the next two 30-minute spells.
It is the Football Ferns' largest in five years and eclipses a 9-0 victory over Thailand in 1991 as their biggest win against non-Oceania opposition.
New Zealand opened scoring through a back post Yallop header in the second minute and never looked back with long range efforts from Hearn and Kete the pick of the night's plentiful offerings.
New Zealand coach John Herdman praised the nature of the Ferns performance but quickly turned his attention to New Zealand's final Games warm-up against Canada also in Singapore before lining up against Japan in their Olympic opener on August 6.
" The key now is they take this into the Canada game on Friday," Herdman said.
"It's our last opportunity to scalp a top 10 team and send out a message before the Olympics.
" We've had the attitude in the games against Australia and China, but tonight they had the killer instinct and players were prepared to put their bodies on the line to score goals.
" It was a step we needed to take. We've worked hard on our finishing in the last few days and internally the team asked some questions of our attacking players. Tonight they all stood up."
The Football Ferns are in Group G of the 12-team Olympics tournament with Japan, Norway and Athens gold medallists the United States.
New Zealand 14 (Amber Hearn 4, Emma Kete 4, Renee Leota 3, Kirsty Yallop 2, Merissa Smith) Singapore 0
