On July 10, 1999, over 90,000 people (the largest ever for a women's sporting event and one of the largest attendances in the world for a tournament game final) filled the Rose Bowl to watch the United States play China in the Final. With this win they emerged onto the world stage and brought significant media attention to women's soccer and athletics. It came when they defeated China 5–4 in a penalty shoot-out following a 0–0 draw after extended time. This 1999 World Cup final match was arguably the USWNT's most influential and memorable victory. And then, they traveled to Los Angeles to play China at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena for the final match which would decide the winner of this most prestigious tournament. and the USWNT then traveled to the San Francisco Bay Area to beat Brazil 2–0 at Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto. Going into the knockout stage, they then beat a fancied Germany 3–2 at Jack Kent Cooke Stadium just outside the American capital of Washington, D.C. In their group stage, they beat Denmark 3–0 at Giants Stadium just outside New York City, they then thrashed Nigeria 7–1 at Soldier Field in Chicago and finally they beat North Korea 3–0 at Foxboro Stadium near Boston. The USWNT won every game they played in this tournament. Those two women along with Julie Foudy, Kristine Lilly, and the 1999 team started a revolution towards women's team sports in America. In March 2004, two of its stars, Mia Hamm (who retired later that year after a post- Olympic team tour of the US) and Michelle Akers (who had already retired), were the only two women and the only two Americans named to the FIFA 100, a list of the 125 greatest living soccer players chosen by Pelé as part of FIFA's centenary observances.
The team played its first match at the Mundialito tournament on August 18, 1985, coached by Mike Ryan, in which they lost 1–0 to Italy.
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