October marks the primary time in 10 months that Gregg Berhalter and Gio Reyna had been each concerned in a U.S. males’s nationwide workforce camp and though loads of consideration will revolve round their relationship, the Borussia Dortmund attacker admitted it’s been again to enterprise.
Reyna is again in his first USMNT camp since struggling a calf harm final June, an harm that sidelined him for many of Dortmund’s home and European schedule to date. The 20-year-old lately made his season debut in Dortmund’s 4-2 league victory over Union Berlin, logging 26 minutes off the bench for Edin Terzic’s squad.
After incomes his first aggressive minutes in over 4 months, Reyna is targeted on persevering with his position with the USMNT and doing all the pieces he can to assist this system.
“It’s fully regular,” Reyna stated on Tim Ream’s “The American Dream” podcast about his USMNT return. “Nothing has actually modified. I’ve been in earlier than and I’m nonetheless right here now. So it’s simply two good video games now and we wish to achieve success as a workforce. It’s fairly easy, that’s actually it. It’s no more than that.”
The USMNT faces off in opposition to Germany and Ghana this month in a pair of residence friendlies, a harder set of opponents than September’s pair of matches in opposition to Uzbekistan and Oman. With no qualifying schedule developing for the Individuals as a consequence of their co-hosting of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Berhalter and his gamers might want to benefit from each alternative as preparation for the event.
Reyna has already featured in two Nations League tournaments throughout his USMNT profession and is aware of the significance of each competitors right here on out forward of 2026.
“I feel everybody feels the identical means,” Reyna stated. “We wish to construct towards a vivid future within the upcoming necessary tournaments with the Copa América and the World Cup developing. In order that’s actually it. Everybody has a standard aim to work collectively and achieve success.”
Reyna’s versatility might see him utilized in plenty of totally different roles going ahead with the USMNT. Whether or not it’s on the No. 10 position or on the wing, Reyna’s creativity and attacking prowess makes him one of many more-deadlier weapons in Berhalter’s squad.
Berhalter could have loads of concepts on easy methods to reincorporate Reyna into his formation this window, however Reyna even hinted at the place he thinks he may very well be most impactful for the USMNT long-term.
“If it was my splendid state of affairs, or recreation, it could in all probability be with two No. 6s and I’d be form of a free-roaming No. 10,” Reyna stated. “I feel that’s the place I’d discover the house to create and rating targets and get assists. In order that’s form of the place I may be profitable.”