Just as he was on that memorable night, Ramirez was a catalyst, a useful reference point for the Yellow Football Team’s dynamic attack as they challenged IMCF. He hammered home Max Arfsten’s cross to halve the deficit and created space with off-the-ball runs on the next two game-winning moves.

“We knew it when we scored the first goal – we know each other,” said Cucho Hernández, whose cross helped Diego Rossi score the winning goal. “And we know we’ve done it many times before and we’re so happy about that.”

The reigning MLS champions turned the game on its head in a wild, dizzying 14 minutes, scoring three goals and clinging to their sudden lead with desperate desperation as Miami threw everything at them in the final moments and the stadium went from glum to euphoric.

“A tough game against a good team,” said Farsi. “Unfortunately we didn’t start the game very well but I think in the second half we corrected a few things and yes, we put our heart into it and gave it our all. At the end of the day we said, ‘Second half, we have no regrets, we have 45 minutes to come back.’ Even after the second goal we just kept going; we’ve been in this situation before.

“They pressed man-to-man in the first half, so there’s a lot of space at the back. If we can move the ball left and right, we create space… and I think we had a lot of space on the counterattack as well.”

When referee Iván Barton blew his whistle for the last time, the noise grew even louder: the defending League Cup champions had been dethroned.

“I didn’t like the first half. I didn’t like the energy we had. I wasn’t happy with the energy because we can miss passes, we can miss something tactically and so on, but we need positivity,” Nancy said.

“In the second half we are like that. Last year we had good moments because we came back from behind, so I’m not surprised. I’m really happy to have a game like that because we suffered and it was good to have a better fighting spirit and to play up front to win the game.”