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Claudio Reyna ( born July 20, 1973 ) is an american former professional soccer actor and current sporting film director of Austin FC. A erstwhile midfielder, he was the captain of the United States men ‘s national team before retiring from external soccer following the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He is widely considered one of the greatest players the United States has always produced. Reyna last played for New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer, where he was team captain. [ 2 ]

early life [edit ]

Reyna ‘s father Miguel moved to the United States in 1968 from Argentina, where he had gone through the youth system of Independiente and played professionally with Los Andes. [ 3 ] He settled in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey in the 1970s, married a portuguese american woman, Maria Silva, and raised a family. [ 4 ] Reyna was born in Livingston, New Jersey, where he learned the crippled from his founder. [ 5 ]

Club career [edit ]

early career [edit ]

In New Jersey, Reyna became a young player at Saint Benedict ‘s Preparatory School, as a teammate of Gregg Berhalter and Robert Ducey. He graduated from St. Benedict ‘s in 1991. During Reyna ‘s three years with the team, St Benedict ‘s went undefeated ( 65–0 ) while Reyna was named as the only two-time Parade Magazine ‘s national high school Player of the year and the Gatorade National Player of the class. In 1999, he was named by The Star-Ledger as one of the top ten New Jersey high school soccer players of the 1990s. [ 6 ] highly recruited out of high school, Reyna elected to attend the University of Virginia from 1991 to 1993 on a full eruditeness. While at Virginia, he spent three seasons on the men ‘s soccer team, coached by future U.S. national team coach Bruce Arena. The Cavaliers won the NCAA Championship each of his three seasons. On an person level, Reyna won the Hermann Trophy in 1993 and the MAC Award in 1992 and 1993 ; and was named the 1992 and 1993 Soccer America Player of the class. In 2000, the magazine placed him on its Team of the Century and named him the Male Player of the Century .

Bayer Leverkusen and VfL Wolfsburg [edit ]

On August 8, 1994, Reyna signed with german Bundesliga baseball club Bayer 04 Leverkusen after playing in the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He had trouble finding playing time with the Leverkusen first team, making only five appearances. Leverkusen loaned Reyna to fellow Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg in July 1997. He promptly established himself in Wolfsburg ‘s inaugural team where he became the first american to captain a european club. [ citation needed ] He was center through his second base year with Wolfsburg when Scottish Premier League club Rangers expressed an interest in Reyna .

Rangers [edit ]

On April 1, 1999, Rangers paid $ 826,400 to Wolfsburg and $ 2.76 million to Leverkusen for Reyna. Reyna would remain with Rangers until December 2001. Despite building his reputation in Germany and on the national team as a creative midfielder, he spent most of his years at Rangers playing proper midfield. He scored thirteen goals for the Ibrox club in all competitions, one of the most noteworthy was a strike that proved decisive over italian club Parma for qualification for the 1999–2000 UEFA Champions League .

sunderland [edit ]

From Rangers, he transferred to Premier League side Sunderland, who paid £2.85 million for his services. In October 2002, he injured the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee, keeping him out of action for the respite of the 2002–03 season .

Manchester City [edit ]

Reyna joined Manchester City on August 29, 2003, for £2.5 million after a motivate on the same fee to Fulham collapsed. [ 7 ] Reyna ‘s clock time at City was frequently punctuated by injury, restricting him to thirty appearances in his first season with the club, and causing him to miss six months of the 2004–05 season. In three and a half seasons at the City of Manchester Stadium, Reyna made 87 appearances, scoring four goals and was a popular player with City supporters. On January 11, 2007, Manchester City coach Stuart Pearce announced that the baseball club had agreed to terminate Reyna ‘s shrink with a view to a act to Major League Soccer for kin reasons. This was finalized on January 23, 2007. [ 8 ] [ 9 ]

New York Red Bulls [edit ]

On January 24, 2007, Reyna signed with New York Red Bulls, where he rejoined his former University of Virginia and U.S. national team head coach Bruce Arena. [ 2 ] however, much like his years in Britain, Reyna was about constantly bothered by injuries. He only played in twenty-seven games during two years with New York and only six games in 2008 as he rehabilitated a herniated phonograph record. Reyna announced his professional retirement on July 16, 2008. [ 10 ]

International career [edit ]

Reyna practicing with the U.S. national soccer team in 2006. As a U.S. home player, Reyna got his beginning hood against Norway on January 15, 1994. He was a member of the team at the 1994 FIFA World Cup, but did not play due to injury. Reyna did play in the 1998, 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cups. In 2002, despite sitting out the opening 3–2 disquieted succeed over Portugal due to injury, he was a key subscriber in the adjacent three U.S. games — a tie against South Korea, a passing to Poland, and a gain over CONCACAF equal Mexico. In the quarterfinals, the U.S. lost to eventual runner-up Germany. He became only the third american english always ( after Bert Patenaude and John Souza ) named to the World Cup all-tournament team. In 2006, Reyna again captained the U.S. at the World Cup in Germany. Trailing 1–0 in the undoer against the Czech Republic, Reyna fired a 30-yard nip that bounced off the post, the best american english probability in the game. In the final group game against Ghana, Reyna suffered a twist medial collateral ligament when he lost the ball to Haminu Draman [ 11 ] who then dribbled in alone and scored Ghana ‘s first goal.

On June 23, 2006, the day after the U.S. was eliminated from the World Cup, Reyna announced his retirement from the national team. He ended his international career with 111 caps and eight goals. [ 12 ] Reyna besides represented the U.S. at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In Great Britain, he was occasionally referred to as Captain America because of his status as captain of the U.S. national team. [ 13 ]

other roles [edit ]

New York City FC [edit ]

On May 22, 2013, Reyna was appointed Sporting Director of MLS expansion team New York City FC. [ 14 ] New York City FC made the league semifinals four of the five years that Reyna was the Sporting Director. Between 2016 and 2019, New York City FC accumulated 231 points, the most of any team in the league during that meter. Reyna left the golf club in November 2019 .

Austin FC [edit ]

On November 21, 2019, Reyna was named Sporting Director of another MLS expansion team, Austin FC. Reyna is expected to lead the club into its 2021 inaugural season with his early US national team teammate, Austin FC head passenger car Josh Wolff. [ 15 ]

personal life [edit ]

Reyna married Danielle Egan, then a extremity of the United States women ‘s national soccer team, in July 1997, one workweek after attending the FIFA All-Star Game in Hong Kong and two weeks after the U.S. team ‘s World Cup qualifier at El Salvador. They have had four children : Jack ( 1999–2012 ), Giovanni ( give birth 2002 ), Joah-Mikel, and Carolina. Giovanni, named after former Rangers teammate Giovanni avant-garde Bronckhorst, [ 16 ] has achieved capital achiever play in the New York City FC development academy, and joined Borussia Dortmund ‘s academy in November 2018. [ 17 ] Jack, Reyna ‘s eldest child, died of genius cancer in 2012. The family resides in Bedford, New York. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Reyna now spends much of his prison term managing the Claudio Reyna Foundation, his non-profit established to provide soccer coach and mentor to underprivileged youth around the nation and abroad. Claudio was elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame on February 29, 2012. Reyna speaks eloquent English and Spanish, a well as colloquial in German. [ 20 ]

career statistics [edit ]

International goals [edit ]

Scores and results list the United States’ goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Reyna goal.

Honors [edit ]

Rangers
Individual

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

Book

  • More Than Goals: From Backyard Games to World Cup Competition with Mike Woitalla (2004, ISBN 978-0-7360-5171-2)