An injured Brandi Chastain, with crutch, practices heading the ball during a team workout in Portland, Oregon, October 3, 2003. The USA will meet Germany in the semi-final of the Women's World Cup of soccer October 5. REUTERS/Andy Clark
(Reuters) - Retired U.S. football player Brandi Chastain, who scored the winning goal at the 1999 Women's World Cup, said on Thursday she will donate her brain posthumously to researchers studying the impact of concussions.
Chastain, 47, announced her pledge to the Concussion Legacy Foundation on Thursday and her brain will ultimately go to researchers at Boston University, pioneers in the study of CTE, a degenerative condition linked to head trauma.
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