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USA’s Gio Reyna joins Gladbach from Borussia Dortmund

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United States midfielder Gio Reyna has accomplished his switch to Borussia Mönchengladbach from Bundesliga rivals Borussia Dortmund, the golf equipment introduced Saturday.

Reyna, 22, has signed a three-year contract by way of the summer season of 2028.

For Reyna, it means an finish to his six-year keep at Dortmund, the place he started his skilled profession after leaving New York Metropolis FC‘s academy.

It represents a recent begin for Reyna after his preliminary sizable promise was stalled by a sequence of accidents and a battle for first-team minutes.

“Borussia are a implausible, large membership,” Reyna mentioned in an announcement. “I am delighted that the switch has been in a position to be accomplished and am trying ahead to attending to know everybody right here, in addition to tackling the upcoming video games collectively.”

Reyna made simply three begins in Germany’s Bundesliga final season having spent the second half of the earlier marketing campaign on mortgage at Premier League aspect Nottingham Forest.

Whereas he was a part of the Dortmund squad that reached the quarterfinals of this summer season’s Membership World Cup, Reyna made just one 12-minute substitute look. His participation within the match nonetheless meant he missed out on the U.S. males’s nationwide crew squad for the Concacaf Gold Cup.

Reyna, son of former U.S. midfielder Claudio Reyna, has received 32 caps for the USMNT and scored eight objectives. With solely a solitary substitute look since Mauricio Pochettino took over as coach final 12 months, Reyna will now be hoping that the transfer to Gladbach can rejuvenate his profession and earn him a spot within the U.S. squad for subsequent summer season’s World Cup on residence soil.

He joins a Gladbach aspect that completed tenth within the Bundesliga final season and kicks off the brand new marketing campaign at residence to Hamburg on Sunday.

“Gio brings loads of expertise with him, along with being a younger participant with loads of potential,” mentioned Roland Virkus, Borussia’s managing director for sport. “Now we have been monitoring him for some time now and are satisfied that he has the qualities wanted to assist us on the pitch.

“He is accustomed to the Bundesliga and may play at a variety of completely different positions in assault.”