The ball rested 25 yards from the south goal at Children’s Mercy Park, so naturally, Benny Feilhaber and Dom Dwyer stood over it.
Each of them prepared to foster an argument for taking the Sporting Kansas City free kick before an interruption.
It came from Graham Zusi.
“He pushed us off the ball and said he was going to take it,” Feilhaber said. “And I think both of us felt the confidence he had, so we let him have it.”
The bender drilled the crossbar, inches from Zusi scoring a goal, but the outcome wasn’t the purpose of the story.