It has been 25 years since Brandi Chastain's iconic World Cup moment. Now an owner of Bay FC, Chastain is representative of the progress that has been made.
It’s one of the most powerful images in women’s sports history. Brandi Chastain, after converting the penalty kick that gave the U.S. its second women’s World Cup title, dropped to her knees and ripped off her jersey in celebration, exposing her black sports bra to a live crowd of 90,000 and a national television audience that peaked at 40 million. Twenty-five years later it’s still celebrated as a moment of unbridled joy, but also one of liberation.
“We do ourselves a disservice,” Cooky said, “if we don’t recognize all the work and all the effort that women athletes have put in, both on and off the field, to make this moment happen.” There was a lot of patience involved, too. A year after Chastain’s penalty gave the U.S. a World Cup title, she joined 19 other national team players in forming the Women’s United Soccer Assn., the first in a series of short-lived women’s soccer leagues in the U.S.
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