Gio Reyna hasn’t had a lot of a job with the U.S. males’s nationwide workforce over the previous yr, but it surely isn’t stopping him from having objectives forward of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Reyna has solely featured as soon as for the USMNT in 2025, making a substitute look within the CONCACAF Nations League third-place loss to Canada final March. The 22-year-old was not a part of the Gold Cup squad this summer season or the September and October worldwide home windows over the previous two months.
Regardless of scoring eight objectives in 32 worldwide caps thus far, Reyna’s probabilities have been restricted below Mauricio Pochettino, and will proceed heading into the ultimate window of the yr.
Though Reyna is aware of he must earn constant minutes at Borussia Moenchengladbach this fall and winter, he nonetheless has his eyes on being a part of the USMNT’s World Cup roster subsequent summer season.
“I do clearly take into consideration [the World Cup] fairly usually because it’s someplace the place I want and need to be,” Reyna mentioned in an interview with the Related Press. “However I attempt to focus day by day right here, keep current right here, work right here each day, and hopefully imagine all the things will fall into place.”
Reyna’s worldwide profession thus far is extra so identified for the lingering results of the 2022 World Cup. The attacking midfielder performed solely twice off the bench for the USMNT that winter, earlier than later being recognized as a participant that was almost despatched house for a scarcity of effort in coaching by head coach Gregg Berhalter.
Berhalter was later investigated by U.S. Soccer for an previous home violence allegation involving his now-current spouse, an incident that was dropped at mild by Reyna’s mother and father; Claudio and Danielle. After U.S. Soccer’s investigation was accomplished, Berhalter was later re-hired by this system earlier than ultimately being relieved of his duties after the USMNT’s Copa America exit in 2024.
Reyna revealed {that a} lack of enjoying time below Berhalter in Qatar led to the strain between his former head coach and his household.
“On the finish of the day, I used to be simply upset that, , I wasn’t actually enjoying. I used to be enjoying at Borussia Dortmund,” Reyna mentioned. “I believed that I wished to play on the World Cup and in the end in the long run, I didn’t do this, and that’s actually what it stemmed from.
“I assume the frustration and the frustration was simply eager to play and assist my nation,” he added. “It’s to this point eliminated now and to this point prior to now, I don’t even actually need to speak about it any extra.”
Reyna has performed simply 120 minutes through the present Bundesliga season whereas on-loan from Borussia Dortmund and was an unused substitute on Tuesday as Borussia Moenchengladbach superior within the DFB Pokal competitors.
He’ll goal to get again to motion on Saturday when Gladbach visits St. Pauli in league play.