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Brandi Denise Chastain (born July 21, 1968) is a 
soccer player who has been a member of the award
winning United States women's national soccer team
since 1991.

She attended Archbishop Mitty High School in San
Jose, California, helping take the team to three
state championships.

Chastain enrolled at the University of California,
Berkeley in 1986, where she was awarded the Soccer
America Freshmen Player Of The Year award. Soon
after this she underwent reconstructive surgery on
both her knees which caused her to miss much of
the 1987 and 1988 seasons. In 1989, she
transferred to Santa Clara University, leading
their soccer team to two final four NCAA
appearances before graduating in 1990.

Chastain first represented her country on April 18
1991 against Mexico. She came off the bench to
score five consecutive goals in a 12-0 United
States win, in what was a qualifying game for the
first FIFA Women's World Cup. Team USA went on to
win the World Cup, staged in China, in the same
year. Chastain next participated with the national
team in the 1993 CONCACAF championships of New
York, another tournament which the Americans won.
Later in 1993 she joined the West Team, which won
the gold medal at the Texas Olympic Festival. 

Her first era as a member of the national team
came to an end on August 8 of that year, but she
made the team once again in 1996 and participated
in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, helping the
Americans win the gold medal.

Chastain became a household name in 1999, when,
after helping the United States beat People's
Republic of China|China in the final game of that
year's Women's World Cup, she celebrated by taking
off her jersey and kneeling down in the middle of
the field with only her sports bra and her shorts
on. This action was seen by many as a
demonstration of female power by Chastain. She was
signed to a million dollar contract by Nike,
Inc.|Nike afterwards, and other companies, such as
Playboy Magazine, sought her presence on their
products.

Chastain played on the United States women's
national soccer team|US women's national team
until her last game on December 6, 2004. The
team's coach, Greg Ryan, recently revealed she was
no longer in the team's plans. She participated in
the Women's United Soccer Association from its
formation in 2001 until its suspension in 2003. 

==See also==
* Women's football (soccer)
* Women%27s_United_Soccer_Association|WUSA

==External links==

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