Gio Reyna on Gregg Berhalter drama: ‘Both of us are so far past it’

ARLINGTON, Texas – Gio Reyna came off the bench to set up the game-winning objective for the U.S. males’s nationwide group in Thursday’s Concacaf Nations League semifinal success over Jamaica. Afterward, Reyna spoke to the media for the veryfirst time consideringthat the 2022 World Cup and lastly resolved the drama that involved him, his momsanddads and U.S. coach Gregg Berhalter following that competition.

Days after the Americans were removed from soccer’s leading occasion 15 months ago, Berhalter exposed that he thoughtabout sendingout Reyna home from Qatar for his aversion to accept a function as a alternative. The 21-year-old’s momsanddads, USMNT legend Claudio Reyna and previous ladies’s nationwide teamer Danielle Egan, struckback by reporting a decades-old domestic event inbetween Berhalter and his now-wife to U.S. Soccer — a discovery that required the coach away from the program for 6 months before an independent examination identified that the federation might rehire him.

Berhalter remembered Reyna in October and began him in the last 4 matches of 2023, however the moreyouthful didn’t address the occurrence openly till Thursday.

“Obviously what occurred, occurred,” Reyna stated when asked what it’s been like so far playing under Berhalter because that really public, awful spat.

“I think both of us are so far past it and simply so focused on the group that it’s not even an concern at all anylonger. We’re simply so far past it.”

It’s revealed on the field. Reyna scored twotimes in an October win over Ghana. He had another objective in November versus Trinidad and Tobago in the veryfirst leg of the Nations League quarterfinals. And on Thursday, he set up forward Haji Wright for 2 objectives in additional time as the Americans advanced to Sunday’s last with a 3-1 triumph over the Reggae Boyz.

“I think he revealed why he got called into camp,” Berhalter stated of Reyna, who has played simply 40 minutes giventhat moving to Nottingham Forest in England in January on loan from German club Borussia Dortmund.

“Amazing quality, incredible skill. And for us, it’s about supporting him through the tough times of adjusting to the Premier League.

“His quality is undeniable when you see the plays he made on both the 2nd and 3rd objective,” the coach included. “He has that quality that not numerous gamers have, and it’s clear that he shouldhave to play.”

Doug McIntyre is a soccer author for FOX Sports. Before signingupwith FOX Sports in 2021, he was a personnel author with ESPN and Yahoo Sports and he hasactually covered United Statesmen’s and ladies’s nationwide groups at several FIFA World Cups. Follow him on Twitter @ByDougMcIntyre.