Borussia Dortmund’s Sporting Director has defended membership winger and USMNT participant Giovanni Reyna following the bombshell studies of his fractured relationship with Gregg Berhalter.
Reyna hit out at Berhalter for leaking their World Cup row after the US head coach had not directly revealed that he nearly despatched the 20-year-old dwelling from Qatar.
BVB’s Sebastian Kehl felt the necessity to publicly state that the membership has by no means had any points with the son of former US captain, Claudio Reyna.
Borussia Dortmund’s Sporting Director Sebastian Kehl has come out to defend Gio Reyna, 20
‘Now we have been very shocked by sort of protection Gio Reyna has been getting in the previous few days,’ Kehl instructed the Deutsche Presse Agentur. ‘After having a very troublesome time with a number of accidents, he has our full help.’
‘We have identified the lad for a few years,’ Kehl added.
‘We have identified him to be a strong one who delivers skilled work and is a valued presence within the locker room. The notion that that is now unsure after just a few days in Qatar is meaningless for us and doesn’t precisely replicate Gio Reyna.’
Kehl even went on to say that Borussia Dortmund is ‘trying ahead to receiving Gio again in January and persevering with our path with him.’
Berhalter beforehand revealed the USMNT’s considerations a few participant that he did not identify when he spoke final week on the HOW Institute for Society’s Summit on Ethical Management in New York. Excerpts of his remarks had been later printed in a publication by Constitution Works, which analyzes administration and office tendencies.
‘On this final World Cup, we had a participant that was clearly not assembly expectations on and off the sector,’ Berhalter was quoted as saying. ‘One in every of 26 gamers, so it stood out. As a workers, we sat collectively for hours deliberating what we had been going to do with this participant. We had been able to e-book a airplane ticket dwelling, that is how excessive it was.’
Berhalter got here near sending a participant dwelling from Qatar although he did not identify particular person
Reyna, who performed a restricted function at World Cup, is the son of ex-USMNT captain Claudio Reyna
‘And what it got here right down to was, we’ll have yet one more dialog with him, and a part of the dialog was how we’ll behave from right here out. There aren’t going to be any extra infractions.’
‘However the different factor we stated to him was, you are going to need to apologize to the group, however it may need to say why you are apologizing. It should need to go deeper than simply ”Guys, I am sorry,”’ Berhalter went on.
‘And I prepped the management group with this. I stated, ”OK, this man’s going to apologize to you as a gaggle, to the entire crew.” And what was unbelievable on this entire factor is that after he apologized, they stood up one after the other and stated: ”Pay attention, it hasn’t been adequate. You have not been assembly our expectations of a teammate and we wish to see change.” They actually took possession of that course of. And from that day on there have been no points with this participant.”
Whereas Berhalter did not determine the participant, a number of media shops reported on Monday that it was Reyna, and an individual acquainted with the matter confirmed the id to DailyMail.com on situation of anonymity as a result of no announcement was made.
Reyna was made to apologize to all the USMNT teaching workers and gamers by Berhalter
ESPN claimed that the squad had been requested to vote on whether or not Reyna ought to stay inside the squad, with the Dortmund teenager being allowed to remain after 13 votes went his approach, with 12 members of the squad recommending he left.
The Athletic’s report claimed that ‘a number of sources’ near the crew revealed that Reyna had put in ‘an alarming lack of effort in coaching’ earlier than the USA’s opening group stage match in opposition to Iran, which he was subsequently benched for.
The crew additionally performed in a scrimmage in opposition to Qatari membership Al Gharafa, through which Reyna was described as ‘strolling round all through the sport’.
DeAndre Yedlin and Aaron Lengthy are stated to have pulled Reyna apart at varied factors all through the event, urging him to point out extra effort.
It was then reported that Reyna apologized to all the crew – as described by Berhalter – after which he turned a nook and ‘understood he was a part of a collective group’.
Because the finish of US’ World Cup marketing campaign, following a 3-1 defeat to Holland within the Spherical of 16, the 20-year-old has damaged his silence on his feud with Berhalter, expressing his disappointment at personal issues being made public.
