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Union fans remind Joe Bendik of free kick goals with ‘Give ‘Em #BendikFace’ banner

When you’re involved in two of the most memorable free kick goals in the history of a team, you can expect your fair share of ribbing from that team’s fanbase.

If you’re named Joe Bendik — the goalkeeper who has watched a decisive late game-winning free kick go by him on two occasions at Talen Energy Stadium — you even get your own hashtag in tribute.

Starting in a game in Chester for the seventh time in his career in place of Zack Steffen, who withdrew from the USMNT camp with a minor knee injury, Bendik was greeted with a banner in the River End blazoned with the words “Give ‘Em #BendikFace.