On a night when his hometown team were coming up short in penalties in North Jersey, former Philadelphia Union homegrown Jimmy McLaughlin followed Bastian Schweinsteiger to the penalty spot to take one of the biggest kicks of his life.
“I was trying not to think too much,” McLaughlin said. “I had the spot made up in my mind, I quickly visualized it and took it.”
The 24-year-old buried it to the bottom left corner of the goal and when FC Cincinnati goalkeeper Mitch Hildebrandt turned away the next attempt from Juninho, 32,000 fans at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati lost their minds.