<P> 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 win over China in the final game , Chastain celebrated by spontaneously whipping off her jersey and falling to her knees in a sports bra , her fists clenched , flexing her arms . Removing a jersey in celebration of a goal is so common in men 's soccer that it has , at times , been cause for an automatic yellow card caution , according to the Laws of the Game . The image of her celebration has been considered one of the more famous photographs of a woman celebrating an athletic victory . Chastain described the celebration as `` momentary insanity , nothing more , nothing less . I was n't thinking about anything . I thought , ' This is the greatest moment of my life on the soccer field . ' '' </P>
<P> 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 win over China in the final game , Chastain celebrated by spontaneously whipping off her jersey and falling to her knees in a sports bra , her fists clenched , flexing her arms . Removing a jersey in celebration of a goal is so common in men 's soccer that it has , at times , been cause for an automatic yellow card caution , according to the Laws of the Game . The image of her celebration has been considered one of the more famous photographs of a woman celebrating an athletic victory . Chastain described the celebration as `` momentary insanity , nothing more , nothing less . I was n't thinking about anything . I thought , ' This is the greatest moment of my life on the soccer field . ' '' </P>
who took their shirt off in women 's soccer
who took their shirt off in women 's soccer
Chastain
Chastain