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    Gio Reyna | Can Dortmund's star take USA to the next level?



    “I only need to say a couple of words: He is the American dream,” says teammate Erling Haaland. But is Dortmund’s Giovanni Reyna good enough to achieve the unthinkable? Could he lead the USA to World Cup glory on home soil? Together with Chelsea’s Christian Pulisic, Juve’s Weston McKennie, Barcelona’s Sergino Dest, Leipzig’s Tyler Adams and Bremen’s Josh Sargent, an unprecedented flood of US talent is playing across Europe. Their focus and no frills attitude may just be what gives them the edge in their 2026 mission: Winning the World Cup hosted by Mexico, Canada and of course, the United States.

    Report by Ulrich Crüwell
    Editing: David “DJ” Jacobi

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    38 Comments

    6. JD Redwine on

      I think 2030 we could have a shot when Reyna, Pulisic, McKennie, Adams, Dest, Reynolds, Weah, Steffen, Aaronson, Richards are all in their primes, but the that is only if we keep producing talents. We need another 5/6 year stretch of youth that is just as talent as this one to emerge starting now. Caden Clark, Paxton Aaronson, Cade Cowell, Gianluca Busio could be leading this crop and we all know FC Dallas as probably already found another top prospect. The new youth structure starting this year builds off the last, but does a lot more to address the pay to play system, thus our next crop of players may be even better and deeper. 2026 we will be very good and have the home crowd which should take us far, but I think we will still be 4 years away.

    7. Baris Alici on

      In 2002, Turkish National Team's Coach Senol Gunes said "we will try to bring world cup if it's possible" – it was Turkey's 3rd attention to World Cup. (1950, 1954, 2002) And we became 3rd. USA is like Turkey in national teams and I think they can do it.

    10. Delboy0 on

      The irony is that Haaland and Reyna were born in England and could still both play for England. There must be something in the water in England lol.

    15. KenDaKingArrives on

      Thanks for making us look good, most people still don't believe in us, but these new players exist to tell people that we are trying to exist in this sport and this is just the beginning. We replaced the now-defunct development academy that some of these players are the 1st (and now only) generation products of, with an extension of the MLS academies (like FC Dallas academy or the NY clubs academies who produced a number of these players by themselves) pouring resources into formally private youth teams nationwide, we have a whole new nationwide youth development program set up and ready to go soon.

    19. Nilo Rodriguez on

      His father was also a great player! Good to see young American prospects playing the best football out in Europe. Looks like the US really invested in their youth academies.

    25. Lwando Madikizela on

      American players like Pulisic, Dest and Reyna are stepping up. They can qualify for Qatar 2022. They have a bright future if America can get a manager that can get the best out of them. Unlike South Africa where our football governing body, players bar Tau and managers embrace mediocrity.

    28. A W on

      The US is the most successful sports nation in the world (in terms of Olympic, world championship and major results), and is all time (most top players, most successful in olympics, major or world championship in the sport all time) the best in baseball, basketball, track and field, swimming, lacrosse, beach volleyball, figure skating, tennis, golf, boxing, diving, shooting, rowing, snowboarding etc and is all time top 5 in ice hockey, wrestling, gymnastics, volleyball, speed skating, alpine skiing, bobsleigh, equestrian, sailing, cycling, weightlifting, archery. Soccer is the 5th sport in the US and wasn't even a top 10 sport in the US until the 1990s, yet even with that, the US is one of only 8 nations in the world to make at least the round of 16 in 3 of the 4 World Cups from 2002 to 2014. If soccer were the most popular sport in the US from the beginning (1800s) and the US had a good soccer culture, academies and league and players grew up learning to play the correct way, the US would have won 6-8 of the 21 World Cups

    33. epi pi on

      If the USA win World Cup, Europeans and South American people will be on crazy mode. If might be far fetched now but it will come sooner or later.

    37. Cayenne Peppa on

      I remember I told a friend in the 90's that it would be 50 years before the USA had a pipeline scenario. It's starting to come together as a steady stream of developing young talent is starting to come together. Amazing, too, as soccer is the 5th or 6th major sport in the USA. Nice job.

    38. verman banhan on

      Concacaf deserves a world champion as we have played a major role in world football as long as it been around, and we’ve produced numerous great players that have played for other international teams but never have we had our own glory! I hope 2026 shows what we have! 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲

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