SAN JOSE — Brandi Chastain, San Jose’s hometown soccer star, was inducted Friday into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame during a ceremony at Avaya Stadium before the United States faced Honduras in a World Cup qualifying game.

Chastain joined fellow U.S. national team player Shannon MacMillan and Soccer America editor Paul Kennedy for the class of 2016.

Chastain was joined by her husband Jerry Smith, the long-time Santa Clara women’s coach and their son Jaden and Smith’s son Cameron, among other family members.

Chastain won two World Cups and two Olympic gold medals with the U.S. national team after playing at Archbishop Mitty High, Cal and Santa Clara.

“It was love at first kick,” she said in her speech. “It’s serendipity that we’re here in San Jose. I’ve been going to Earthquakes games since the mid 1970s. My first team was the Quakettes. I think I wore the uniform every day.”

Also attending the ceremony were former national team coach Tony DiCicco, and American stars Joy Fossett, Mia Hamm, Kasey Keller and Johnny Moore, a Hall of Fame player for the Earthquakes of the 1970s.

U.S. soccer president Sunil Gulati said Chastain’s induction was overdo “because we couldn’t get Brandi to retire.”

In praising Chastain and MacMillan, Gulati said the players “set the framework for women’s sports for many years to come and that continues.”

Chastain scored 30 goals in 192 games, but became more famous for transforming into what DiCicco called the world’s best left fullback.

Chastain’s biggest moment, though, was scoring the winning penalty in the 1999 World Cup final at the Rose Bowl against China.

“Brandi for the thousandth time of her life stood up to score the winning kick,” DiCicco recalled. “The other 999 were on the practice field or in her mind.”

Then he added that the goal came on a left-footed shot, something Chastain had practiced after getting stopped earlier that year with her normal foot.

Chastain thanked her coach for bringing her back to the national team in 1995 and then converting her into a defender.

“It probably was one of the greatest moments I’ve had in my soccer career,” she said. “Change, though scary, is good. Boy did you change my life.”