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A questão da reputação foi um ponto crucial quando Reyna, em dado momento, simplesmente decidiu parar de rolar a tela. A decisão foi descomplicada. Ele desinstalou o Instagram do telefone móvel, convencido de que poderia empregar seu tempo de forma mais proveitosa através de outras atividades: conversar com a família, passar tempo com seu cão, assistir a vídeos do PGA Tour junto aos seus companheiros da Seleção Masculina dos EUA — literalmente qualquer coisa, menos ficar a olhar para o celular de forma desatenta. Durante essas interações de rolagem, tornou-se progressivamente mais desafiador não ver o que estava sendo dito. Toda vez que seu nome surgia, seja em manchetes ou em comentários nas redes sociais, o mesmo tipo de debate sempre se Here’s the English translation of the provided text:

Reyna’s reputation has been debated and dissected countless times over the past three and a half years. It’s the only thing everyone always wants to know. Is he who social media says he is? Did everything happen the way we read? Is he fit? Is he confident? Do people like him? Does he care? Does he feel he has more to prove? Is everything everyone has assumed about him really true?

Some things are, he admits. Like all stories, those involving Reyna have gotten out of control over the years, taking turns he never could have imagined. They had a beginning, however, and those origins are worth acknowledging. The other parts? They’re worth laughing at.

“I feel like a lot of what’s said about me tends to be that I’m a bit temperamental and, perhaps, that I have attitude problems,” Reyna says, as if setting the stage for a quick denial.

Not quite. He cracks a smile as he continues: “I think if you ask a lot of the guys on the team, there are, at times, moments on the field where I can be a hothead, for sure.”

Not a hothead in the traditional sense, mind you. The term can be used negatively, and it has been used that way many times. Reyna, as he has said many times before, overreacted during a specific week in Qatar. Now, however, he takes a second to try and redeem himself. Out with “hothead,” and in with “passionate.” It’s a subtle but significant change.

“I feel like part of that is something necessary to succeed in sports,” he says about his own ego and passion, which, once again, have been at the center of debate throughout his adult life. “You need to have that internal motivation, that hunger and that fire. You need to keep going…” em frente. Off the field, though? I feel I’m very grounded and very rational, yes.”

Part of being rational is accepting reality. Reyna knows his. He knows there are still many out there eager to use the 2022 World Cup against him. Some people will define everything he does by how he handled the worst days of his professional career. Even as his life evolves, that moment will remain a chapter, one that cannot be erased.

But it’s possible to move forward. Perhaps even overshadow it, if all goes well. The reality, however, is that reputations are hard to change. Reyna knows that.

“I feel I’m definitely much less of a problem for the team than perhaps people have thought in the past,” he says with a laugh. “I think that probably stems more from that story than anything else, but I think I’m a team player. I like being with this group of guys. I’m probably less of a problem for coaches than people think.

“People think I just show up every day and everyone stares, but no, I’m pretty normal. I just want to do my best and help my team.”

One thing Reyna has made clear repeatedly is that this team, the USMNT, means everything to him. He was raised to love it and has never stopped loving it. For him, however, it’s not just about a program, a status, or a soccer team; it’s something deeper than that. O texto descreve como as fortes amizades de Gio Reyna, especialmente com Joe Scally, são fundamentais para seu conforto na seleção masculina dos EUA. Sua mudança para o Borussia Mönchengladbach foi parcialmente motivada por Scally, e ele considera a mudança positiva.

Reyna também tem laços de longa data com outros companheiros de equipe, como Brenden Aaronson e Chris Richards, e até mesmo com conexões mais recentes através de atividades compartilhadas, como videogames (ex: Chris Brady). Ele vê a equipe como uma irmandade unida, onde todos se conhecem e se encaixam.

Apesar de sua visibilidade em campo e nas manchetes, Reyna se descreve como uma presença “mais calada” e “tranquila” dentro do grupo, mas sente que é bastante querido e bem-vindo pelos seus companheiros de equipe. Aqui está a tradução:

“who speaks up most in every room, like maybe Chris Richards, Tyler Adams, or Weston [McKennie].”

For years, the program’s players have reflected on the brotherhood of the US National Team and what it means to them. They have also reflected on how they survived the tough times: the 2022 World Cup, the 2024 Copa América, and the 2025 Nations League. Reyna has an answer for how they managed it: they care about the team and each other.

“I’ve been on some teams where it wasn’t like that,” he says. “More at the club level than anywhere else, but here? I’m serious: one of our strengths is that everyone gets along. There’s no friction whatsoever with anyone. Everyone really likes being with everyone on this team. That’s what I love about coming back to this team.

“On the field, you can see that we really play for each other on every play.”

One thing about Reyna is that he truly stands out whenever he takes the field in a US national team jersey. It’s no coincidence, and that’s immediately relevant for this summer.

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