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The delivery and the finish were so well done you’d think it had happened before.

It had. Plenty of times, the way Nick Markanich described his second-half goal for Forward Madison FC in a 2-1 friendly victory Tuesday night over Leones Negros of Mexico.

Twins have a way of teaming up like that.

Markanich’s brother, Anthony, served up a cross into the right side of the box that Nick headed to the back post, giving the Flamingos a 2-1 lead in the 58th minute.

“My brother and I, we’ve always practiced this,” Nick Markanich said. “I had to move for it, but I knew exactly where it was going to go. It was a perfect ball.”

The Markanich brothers will be sophomores at Northern Illinois in the fall after a summer playing for the amateur Green Bay Voyageurs with two guest appearances with Forward Madison. They have an extra page for their soccer resumes after a big moment in front of an announced crowd of 4,802 at Breese Stevens Field.

“These two kids, they have the potential to be really special,” Forward Madison coach Daryl Shore said. “I don’t know if I want to say that in public because we kind of want to keep it under the radar.”