History repeating: Jedi Robinson’s goal vs. Germany calls back Benny Feilhaber’s 2007 Gold Cup winner

Same stadium, same strike, 19 years apart.

If Antonee Robinson’s stunning left-footed volley from distance against Germany on Saturday afternoon looked familiar to U.S. soccer fans, it’s because it should.

In the 2007 Concacaf Gold Cup final, which, like Sunday, took place in front of a raucous crowd at Chicago’s Soldier Field, Benny Feilhaber unleashed one of the more spectacular and impactful goals in USMNT’s modern era. He won the continental competition for the U.S. with a right-footed volley from distance off a looping clearance putting rival Mexico to the sword.

Fast forward to Saturday, and while the stakes may have been different — a match that won a trophy and qualified the U.S. for a pivotal 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup vs. a friendly — the result was eerily close to being the same.

With the U.S. trailing Germany 1-0 in the team’s send-off friendly for the World Cup, Christian Pulisic stepped to take a corner, from that same spot on the Soldier Field surface as the corner from where Feilhaber’s goal originated. The initial kick was cleared, but not beyond Robinson, who lined it up from the second it started heading in his direction. He stepped into it with gusto and unleashed a volley that left German goalkeeper Oliver Baumann with no chance and pulled the U.S. level.

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Feilhaber’s kick may have come from more of the right channel, but that’s besides the point. That volley now has more company in the annals of the USMNT when it comes to spectacular hits that wind up in the back of the net.

For Robinson, it was his fifth international goal, and he’ll be hard-pressed to score a more beautiful one than that.