Tom Bogert

He did not react well.

It got to the point where there was a vote of whether or not Gio Reyna was going to get kicked off of the World Cup team just before the World Cup while they were in Qatar.

They ultimately landed with him staying with the team, and he became, like,

Not a side show.

It was part of the experience.

Like that is one of the biggest takeaways.

He did not play much.

And when he did, he was not effective.

They ended up, I think he played a good chunk in that game against the Netherlands.

And he didn't really change the game when they got eliminated.

The, what makes this even more thorny is Greg Barhalter, the former coach and the coach during that time.

And Gio Reyna's father, Claudio, not only were U.S.

national team teammates,

They are both from New Jersey and they are just about lifelong friends.

Their wives played college soccer together.

Those two families were as close as just about humanly possible.

And then during this Gio Reyna saga, Gio's father, Claudio Reyna, again, a U.S.

great former teammate of Greg Berhalter, was like blackmailing the Federation saying, you know, I know things about Greg.

play my son like it was legit like black black man again as a fellow new jersey native i'm trying to be careful with it with the black male in new jersey and it all it all doesn't look so good and it ends up coming out that there was an altercation between greg berhalter and his wife when they were in college that was physical like it was it was a kick or something to that effect something that greg berhalter's wife family they had moved on from and in the eyes of the public if she wanted to tell this story publicly it was her story to tell

But Claudio Reyna was going around to U.S.