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SAN FRANCISCO — Brandi Chastain’s bust has again stirred a national debate. This time it’s the South Bay soccer icon’s supposed likeness on her new Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame plaque that’s created a social media frenzy.

The plaque honoring Chastain upon her enshrinement into the BASHOF on Monday evening was so widely panned — featuring a bronze face that not only didn’t look much like her but didn’t even look female — that a new one was already being planned on Tuesday.

“We’re going to redo it,” said Kevin O’Brien, the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame president and chief executive officer. “We weren’t happy with the rendering. It was not a great job.”

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Sure, Brandi Chastain’s plaque is a bust, but others have been worse Luckily, Chastain already left fans with an indelible image. Because fans thought her new bronze plaque looked more like the black plague.

The problem? The likeness was wildly off. On Twitter, fans suggested the image looked more like Jimmy Carter … or Gary Busey … or Bill Belichick … or (for the old school crowd) Mickey Rooney.

“It’s not the most flattering,” Chastain said, diplomatically, while standing on the stage at the lavish ceremony at the Westin St. Francis Hotel. “But it’s nice.”

One onlooker wondered if they based the plaque on John Elway instead of Chastain. Ann Killion, the San Francisco Chronicle columnist, took it a step further.

Killion, whose prose accompanied the plaque, got her first look at the likeness Monday night and was not pleased.

“Brandi Chastain is one of the most beautiful athletes I’ve ever covered,” she tweeted. “How this became her plaque is a freaking embarrassment for BASHOF.”

Brandi Chastain is one of the most beautiful athletes I’ve ever covered. How this became her plaque is a freaking embarrassment for BASHOF. Makes Cristiano’s look perfect. pic.twitter.com/hta6c0cmSo — Ann Killion (@annkillion) May 22, 2018

Chastain, of course, left a far more glorious picture during her playing days. The two-time Olympic gold medalist drilled the game-winning penalty kick in the 1999 World Cup, then celebrated by falling to her knees, ripping off her jersey and showing off her muscles in a sports bra.

O’Brien said the artist who made Chastain’s plaque has done many for the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame that were fine.

“He’s done a lot of the plaques,” O’Brien said. “We’ve never had a complaint.”

But he explained that the plaques are made from photographs of the subject, a process that doesn’t always produce a satisfying likeness even for other institutions like the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

“I think it’s very difficult to take a picture and make a perfect rendering,” O’Brien said.

Yo they chose a bad pic, but the artist kinda hit the pic spot on. #BrandiChastain pic.twitter.com/2oAZX8lQey — Mike Baran (@unclebaran) May 22, 2018

The original photograph the artist was working from featured Chastain with her hair pulled back and wearing a thick coat with a high collar. But on social media, likened the rendering to football star John Elway or 1950s film icon Mickey Rooney.

O’Brien said that while he “didn’t think it was well done” when he saw Chastain’s original plaque, “it’s really up to the inductee” and that Chastain told him she “didn’t have a problem with it.” But she accepted his offer to redo the image, which O’Brien said would cost $8,000 to $10,000.

“She’ll send a different picture and we’re going to redo it,” O’Brien said, “and do it until she’s happy.”