India, July 2 -- Football has an extraordinary way of preserving memories. Sometimes they are glorious, sometimes heartbreaking, and every once in a while, they return in the most unbelievable fashion imaginable.

On June 29, 2000, Patrick Kluivert walked towards the penalty spot carrying the hopes of an entire Dutch nation. Twenty-six years later, on June 29, 2026, his son Justin Kluivert did exactly the same.

Neither could have imagined that history would unfold in almost identical fashion.

Patrick watched his effort cannon off the right upright as the Netherlands crashed out of the UEFA Euro 2000 semi-final against Italy. Justin, a generation later, saw his penalty strike virtually the same section of the same right post before Moroc...