Brandi Denise Chastain was born on July 21,1968 and is an American retired soccer player, two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champion, two-time Olympic gold-medalist, coach, and sports broadcaster.
32 Facts About Brandi Chastain
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Brandi Chastain played for the United States national team from 1988 to 2004.
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Brandi Chastain scored a World Cup-winning penalty shootout goal against China in the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup final.
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Brandi Chastain was named to the USWNT All-Time Best XI in 2013.
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Brandi Chastain was born and raised in San Jose, California and began playing soccer at the age of eight.
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Brandi Chastain attended Archbishop Mitty High School and helped lead the team to three consecutive Central Coast Section championships.
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Brandi Chastain attended University of California, Berkeley where she played as a forward for the Golden Bears and scored 15 goals as a freshman.
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Brandi Chastain scored ten goals for the Broncos during the regular season.
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Brandi Chastain won the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top soccer player.
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Brandi Chastain scored her first international goal on April 18,1991.
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Brandi Chastain was not called for the 1995 FIFA Women's World Cup in Sweden, in which the US won the bronze medal.
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Brandi Chastain played every minute of the US' games despite suffering a third serious knee injury during the semifinal against Norway.
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Later on, Brandi Chastain who had missed a penalty kick in the Algarve Cup against China months earlier, scored the deciding penalty against the same opponent in the final, clinching the World Cup title for the US in the Rose Bowl, Pasadena.
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Brandi Chastain earned team most valuable player honors and was the only foreigner to be named one of the league's top 11 players.
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Brandi Chastain played for the San Jose CyberRays all three years of the league's existence.
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Brandi Chastain started in all 19 games in which she played during the regular season, scored 2 goals, and provided 5 assists.
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Brandi Chastain started in all 18 games in which she played, scored 4 goals, and provided 3 assists.
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In 2009 at age 40, Brandi Chastain played as a midfielder for FC Gold Pride in Women's Professional Soccer, the second professional women's soccer league in the United States.
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Brandi Chastain was selected in the seventh round of the 2009 WPS Draft.
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Brandi Chastain started in five of the ten games in which she played.
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In 2014 Brandi Chastain started coaching soccer at Bellarmine College Preparatory where she assisted the head coach.
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On July 10,1999, at the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup Final at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, after scoring the fifth kick in the penalty shootout to give the United States the championship, and the win over China in the final game, Brandi Chastain celebrated by spontaneously taking off her jersey and falling to her knees in a sports bra, her fists clenched, flexing her arms.
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Brandi Chastain acknowledged and congratulated Kelly, saying it put "a big smile on my face" and jokingly telling her to "enjoy the free rounds of pints and dinners for the rest of [her] life" from England fans.
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Brandi Chastain has been featured on numerous television shows including The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Show with David Letterman, and Good Morning America.
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In 2007, Brandi Chastain appeared in the HBO documentary Dare to Dream: The Story of the US Women's Soccer Team.
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Brandi Chastain appeared as Candy in the season 6 premiere of Fresh Off the Boat, an episode which included her World Cup winning goal in 1999.
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Brandi Chastain was the official spokesperson for Pfizer's multivitamin product Centrum Ultra.
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Brandi Chastain has appeared in television commercials for Nike, Bud Light, and Gatorade.
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Brandi Chastain has worked as a color commentator for soccer matches on two networks.
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Brandi Chastain married Santa Clara Broncos head coach Jerry Smith on June 9,1996.
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In March 2016, Brandi Chastain announced that she would donate her brain after death for concussion research.
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On December 10,2019, Brandi Chastain was inducted into the California Hall of Fame by governor Gavin Newsom.