Claudio Reyna

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Claudio Reyna
Personal information
Full name	Claudio Reyna
Date of birth	July 20, 1973 (age 33)
Place of birth	Livingston, NJ, United States
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Red Bull New York
Number	10
Youth clubs
1991-1994	University of Virginia
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1995-1997 1997-1999 1999-2001 2001-2003 2003-2007 2007-Present	Bayer Leverkusen → VfL Wolfsburg (loan) Rangers Sunderland Manchester City Red Bull New York	0026 0(0) 0480(6) 064 (10) 028 0(3) 077 0(4) 000 0(0)
National team2
1994-2006	United States	112 0(8)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 21 June 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Claudio Reyna (born July 20, 1973 in Livingston, New Jersey) is an American soccer player. He was the captain of the U.S. national team before retiring from international soccer immediately following the USA's exit from the 2006 FIFA World Cup. Reyna currently plays for Red Bull New York of Major League Soccer.^[1]

Contents 1 Early life 2 Professional club career 3 National team 4 Personal life 5 Footnotes 6 External links

[edit] Early life

Reyna attended Saint Benedict's Preparatory School in New Jersey, and was a teammate of Gregg Berhalter. He graduated in 1991. St Benedict's was undefeated (65-0) during Reyna's three years on the team. Reyna is the only two-time Parade Magazine's national high school Player of the Year.

Reyna played college soccer at the University of Virginia, where he was coached by former U.S. national team coach Bruce Arena, winning the Hermann Trophy in 1993 and the MAC Award in 1992 and 1993. Reyna turned down a chance to sign for FC Barcelona after the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona to continue his college career.

[edit] Professional club career

On August 8, 1994, Reyna signed with German Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen after playing in the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He had difficulty finding playing time with the Leverkusen first team, making only 5 appearances. Leverkusen loaned Reyna to fellow Bundesliga side VfL Wolfsburg in July 1997. He quickly established himself in Wolfsburg's first team where he became the first American to captain a major European club.

He was half way through his second year with Wolfsburg when Scottish Premier League club Rangers expressed an interest in Reyna. 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 on the national team as a creative midfielder, he spent most of his years at Rangers playing either defensive midfield or right back. From Rangers, he transferred to Premiership side Sunderland.

In October 2002, he injured the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee, keeping him out of action for the rest of the 2002-2003 season. With Sunderland's relegation that season they could not afford Reyna's high wage demands, and the Black Cats sold him to Manchester City in the 2003 off-season. Reyna's time at Manchester City was frequently punctuated by injury, restricting him to 30 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 4 goals.

On 11 January 2007, Manchester City manager Stuart Pearce announced that the club had agreed to terminate Reyna's contract with a view to a move to Major League Soccer for family reasons.^[2] This was finalised on 23 January 2007.^[3] On January 24, Reyna signed with Red Bull New York, where he will rejoin his former University of Virginia and US National Team head coach Bruce Arena.^[1] He is also said to be Arena's choice to be the captain of the Red Bulls once the 2007 season unfolds.

[edit] National team

As a U.S. national player, Reyna got his first cap 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 upset against Portugal due to injury, he was a key contributor in the next three US games -- a tie against South Korea, a loss to Poland, and a win over CONCACAF rival Mexico. In the quarterfinals, the U.S. lost to eventual runner-up Germany. He became the first American ever named as a starter on the World Cup's all-tournament team. In 2006, Reyna again captained the United States into the World Cup. Trailing 1-0 in the opener against the Czech Republic, Reyna fired a 30-yard shot that bounced off the post, the best American chance in the game. In the must-win final group game against Ghana, Reyna was stripped of the ball by Haminu Dramani in front of goalkeeper Kasey Keller, who was helpless to stop Ghana from taking the lead. Injured on the play, Reyna was subbed out of the crucial match after just 40 minutes with the U.S. a goal behind. With Reyna on the sidelines, the Americans pressed forward confidently, scoring an equalizer three minutes later through Clint Dempsey before losing on a controversial penalty kick.

Reyna also represented his country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

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 career with 112 caps, 8 goals and 12 assists.

In Britain, he was occasionally referred to as Captain America because of his status as captain of the U.S. national team. [1].

[edit] Personal life

Reyna married Danielle Egan, then a member of the United States women's national soccer team, in July 1997, one week after attending the FIFA All-Star Game in Hong Kong and two weeks after the U.S. team’s World Cup qualifier in El Salvador. They have two children: Jack, who was born in 1999, and Giovanni, who was born in 2002.

[edit] Footnotes

[edit] External links

• Claudio Reyna career stats at Soccerbase
• Claudio Reyna Profile at FootballDatabase
• Claudio Reyna articles on Yanks Abroad
• Claudio Reyna's U.S. Olympic Team bio
• Leverkusen who's who
• Sam's Army Profile

	United States squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup
1 Meola | 2 Lapper | 3 Burns | 4 Kooiman | 5 Dooley | 6 Harkes | 7 Perez | 8 Stewart | 9 Ramos | 10 Wegerle | 11 Wynalda | 12 Sommer | 13 Jones | 14 Klopas | 15 Moore | 16 Sorber | 17 Balboa | 18 Friedel | 19 Reyna | 20 Caligiuri | 21 Clavijo | 22 Lalas | Coach: Milutinović

	United States squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Friedel | 2 Hejduk | 3 Pope | 4 Burns | 5 Dooley | 6 Regis | 7 Wegerle | 8 Stewart | 9 Moore | 10 Ramos | 11 Wynalda | 12 Agoos | 13 Jones | 14 Preki | 15 Deering | 16 Sommer | 17 Balboa | 18 Keller | 19 Maisonneuve | 20 McBride | 21 Reyna | 22 Lalas | Coach: Sampson

	United States squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 Friedel | 2 Hejduk | 3 Berhalter | 4 Mastroeni | 5 O'Brien | 6 Regis | 7 Lewis | 8 Stewart | 9 Moore | 10 Reyna | 11 Mathis | 12 Agoos | 13 Jones | 14 Cherundolo | 15 Wolff | 16 Llamosa | 17 Beasley | 18 Keller | 19 Meola | 20 McBride | 21 Donovan | 22 Sanneh | 23 Pope | Coach: Arena

	United States squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
1 Howard | 2 Albright | 3 Bocanegra | 4 Mastroeni | 5 O'Brien | 6 Cherundolo | 7 Lewis | 8 Dempsey | 9 Johnson | 10 Reyna | 11 Ching | 12 Berhalter | 13 Conrad | 14 Olsen | 15 Convey | 16 Wolff | 17 Beasley | 18 Keller | 19 Hahnemann | 20 McBride | 21 Donovan | 22 Onyewu | 23 Pope | Coach: Arena

Red Bull New York - Current Squad
1 Cepero | 2 Wynne | 3 Freeman | 4 Mendes | 6 Stammler | 7 Magee | 8 Ubiparipovic | 9 Wolyniec | 10 Reyna | 11 Van den Bergh | 12 Camp | 14 Vide | 15 Kovalenko | 16 Dunivant | 17 Altidore | 18 Conway | 19 Richards | 22 Regan | 23 Waterreus | 25 Caccavale | 26 Graham | 27 Ikangu | 28 Laventure | 29 Patterson | 31 MacDonald | 32 Schopp | 60 Parke | Coach: Arena

Soccer America College Team of the Century  v • d • e
Brad Friedel (Goalkeeper) Erik Imler | Paul Caligiuri | Adubarie Otorubio (Defenders) Andy Atuegbu | Claudio Reyna | Mike Fisher | Bruce Murray (Midfielders) Angelo DiBernardo | Ken Snow | Armando Betancourt (Forwards)