In many ways, it was just a routine substitution in the 91st minute of New Zealand’s first group game against Iran.Defender Tyler Bindon came on for midfielder Marko Stamenic as they tried to close out a pretty good 2-2 draw for the Kiwis. Pretty standard stuff, nothing to get too excited about.But this was actually a moment of World Cup history. Why? Because Bindon’s introduction meant this was the first ever time that a mother and son had both played at a World Cup.Goalkeeper Jenny Bindon was born and raised in Illinois, but met New Zealand volleyball player Grant Bindon at Lewis University, moved there after getting married and went on to play 77 times for the New Zealand national team. Three of those appearances came at the 2007 Women’s World Cup in China.“It’s a funny one because [before this World Cup] I said to people, ‘I think this is happening,’” Jenny tells The Athletic. She tried to figure out if anyone else had done this. “I was trying to think ‘OK, who had kids when I was playing?’ But I couldn’t think of anyone, so I was like…this might actually be a thing. So [when we found out] it was really cool, and we’re pretty stoked.”Tyler was born in Auckland in 2005. Unsurprisingly, because of his parents’ occupations, he grew up playing pretty much every sport possible. Jenny tried to tot them all up at one point, and while she thinks the final number is 17, there’s no guarantee she hasn’t forgotten one or two.Jenny Bindon at the 2007 World Cup (Goh Chai Hin / AFP via Getty Images)But football was always the one. When he was 12, Jenny got a job as a coach at UCLA, and he joined the LAFC youth system, where he stayed for the next six years. That’s why it was so fitting that he made his World Cup debut at the SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles. It also meant that so many of the people who played a role in his football development were able to be there: again, the exact number is slightly hazy, but Jenny thinks a grand total of 53 friends, family, old coaches and others were there to support him.