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Brandi Chastain | It ’s Not About The Bra | Its Not About The Bra | Brandy Chastain | Brandi Chastain American Soccer Defender | Brandi Chastain Bra-baring Celebration | Brandi Chastain Game-Winning Penalty Against China

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Brandi Chastain | It ’s Not About The Bra | Its Not About The Bra | Brandy Chastain | Brandi Chastain American Soccer Defender | Brandi Chastain Bra-baring Celebration | Brandi Chastain Game-Winning Penalty Against China

Brandi Denise Chastain born on 21 July 1968, in San Jose, California is a professional American soccer defender and midfielder currently playing for FC Gold Pride of Women’s Professional Soccer and is a former member of the United States women’s national soccer team.

Chastain has played for San Jose CyberRays of the WUSA and California Storm of the WPSL. She is best known for her game-winning penalty against China in the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup final and her bra-baring celebration afterwards.

Chastain first represented her country on 1 June 1988, against Japan. She scored her first (through fifth) international goals on 18 April 1991 when she came off the bench as a forward to score five consecutive goals in a 12-0 United States win in a CONCACAF FIFA Women’s World Cup against Mexico. Team USA went on to win the World Cup, staged in China.

After that first World Cup, she played club soccer for one season in Japan in 1993, earning team MVP honors and was the only foreigner to be selected as one of the league’s top 11 players.

As a defender, she made the U.S. National team again in 1996 and participated in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, helping the Americans win the gold medal by playing every minute of every U.S. game, despite a third serious knee injury suffered in the semifinal against Norway. Of her 192 career caps, she played 89 primarily at defender during which she occasionally played midfielder.

On 10 July 1999 at the Women’s World Cup at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, after scoring the fifth penalty kick to give the United States the win over China in the final game, Chastain celebrated by peeling off her jersey and falling to her knees in a sports bra, her fists clenched. This image was featured on the covers of Time, Newsweek, and Sports Illustrated.

Chastain’s take on the incident was “Momentary insanity, nothing more, nothing less. I wasn’t thinking about anything. I thought, ‘This is the greatest moment of my life on the soccer field.’”

She appeared in the HBO documentary Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team.She was a broadcaster with ABC/ESPN on their coverage of Major League Soccer.Chastain’s website and her book about women’s competitive sports are titled It’s Not About the Bra.

She posed nude except for soccer cleats and a strategically-placed soccer ball in the lad’s mag Gear.Chastain served as an analyst for NBC Sports coverage of Soccer at the 2008 Summer Olympics.(Wiki)





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