Gio Reyna, with one club start in eight months and “80, 85 percent” of his fitness, ambled around a soccer field here on Saturday night and elevated the U.S. men’s national team.
He scored one goal and created another in a 2-1 win over Paraguay, a friendly which could be forgotten – or could be remembered as the game that relaunched Reyna’s USMNT career.
His “capacity to read the game, and find the free space,” U.S. coach Mauricio Pochettino said postgame, “was a nightmare for Paraguay.”
And it’s why Reyna, warts and all, could still spark the USMNT at the 2026 World Cup.