Women's World Cup 1999

Opening day commemorative cover for the Women's World Cup, June 19, 1999 Giants Stadium East rutherford, NJ...signed by Brandi Chastain, US National Team 1988-2004,California Storm (WPSL), San Jose CyberRays (WUSA), FC Gold Pride (WPS). Chastain has made 192 appearances for the US National team.

On July 10, 1999 at the Women's World Cup at the Rose Bowl, Pasadena..Chastain scored the fifth kick in the penalty shootout to give the US the win over China in the final game...after both teams failed to score during regulation play.

Women's World Cup 1999

I had found the World Cup in 1994 to be exciting and expected the Women's World Cup to offer just as much fun...I was not disappointed.

I attended the opening day at Giants Stadium, with a crowd of 78,972, for a double-header USA v Denmark and Brazil v Mexico...Mia Hamm's response to the day was "The crowd was awesome, the noise was unbelievable.."

For the US Mia Hamm would score in the 17th minute, followed by Julie Foudy and Kristine Lilly for a 3-0 victory...

Pretinha and Sissi each scored 3 goals to lead Brazil over Mexico 7-1...

Just as with the Men's World Cup in 1994, games were played all over the US...Giants Stadium, NJ; Soldier Field, Chicago, Il; Foxboro Stadium, Mass; Stanford Stadium, Palo Alto, Ca; Rose Bowl, Pasadena, Ca.; Civic Stadium, Portland, Or; Spartan Stadium, San Jose, Ca.; Cooke Stadium, Landover, Md.

1999 - Women's World Cup

This is my game. This is my future. Watch me play.

Official program of the 1999 Women's World Cup, Mercy Akide, Nigeria on the cover photo by Dan Helms. The program featured articles on rising stars of US women's soccer, recaps of the previous Women's World Cup matches, performance notes on each of the 16 teams in the tournament, the US vs FIFA World All-stars preliminary game to the World Cup, information about the match venues and the complete tournament venues...