Claudio Reyna
Claudio Reyna
Claudio Reynais a retired American soccer player and the current director of football operations for New York City FC...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoccer Player
Date of Birth20 July 1973
CountryUnited States of America
soccer sports play
The more people who come from abroad who played soccer and are brought up playing it and watching it, then come over to America and bring what they know and what they play, that's how the sport will grow.
basketball soccer sports
I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
sports strong player
EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.
sports country crazy
We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.
sports team player
The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.
sports country world
It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.
sports hurt next-week
I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.
game
Sometimes we're the big game in town. Other times, we're just kind of a sideshow.
cap earn guys played role tomorrow
said Reyna, who'll earn his 108th cap tomorrow night. ''I've played with at least three-quarters of the guys before. And it's the same role as always.
american-athlete beat countries crazy last lose pressure soccer
Countries that are crazy about soccer the last thing they want to do is lose to the U.S. There is a lot more pressure on them to beat us.
american-athlete cup far few judge national past people steps teams
We've made some big steps over the past few years, but the World Cup is when people judge the national teams and how far they are.
american-athlete best came case chance injury knee level sideline
I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.
fight mexico
Mexico is different of all our games, this is the one where you most want to be on the field, ... You fight even to be on the bench.
beat bit consistent dominated five insulting last six soccer time
For such a long time they dominated us, but over not only the last five or six years, but the last 10 years, it's been pretty equal. I think it's a bit insulting to them because soccer is the one and only sport in this country, and for us to beat them on a consistent basis, it's probably something they don't like.