A new groin injury has put Gio Reyna on the sidelines at Borussia Dortmund.
Reyna has been ruled out “a few weeks” following his return to Germany from U.S. men’s national team camp, Dortmund manager Nuri Sahin confirmed Wednesday. The USMNT midfielder left USMNT camp early, missing out on a 2-1 friendly loss to Canada and a 1-1 draw with New Zealand.
Reyna, who has only made one appearance for Borussia Dortmund this season, will now endure another frustrating spell on the sidelines.
“Gio Reyna will be out; he has picked up an injury with the national team,” Sahin said. “He came straight back [from the national team] and I found him extremely sad; unfortunately, it will take a few weeks. And then I hope that he can continue on this good path afterwards.”
Reyna, 21, spent the second half of last season on loan at English Premier League side Nottingham Forest, registering one assist in nine appearances. However, he finished the season with only 592 minutes of combined playing time in Germany and England, taking a step back in his overall development.
Injuries have plagued Reyna’s time with both Borussia Dortmund and the USMNT, forcing him out of 69 potential appearances for club and country. Now he is slated to miss the start of the UEFA Champions League schedule with Dortmund, in addition to several Bundesliga matches.
The Black and Yellow resumes league play on Friday vs. Heidenheim.
hope he’s ok, timing sucks, but when is a groin injury timed well?
It’s unfortunate. He was going to be the third ten in a team that plays with two tens and has A LOT of games this season. He was going to have a great chance to show he could carry that position for another team. This is very poorly timed.
A lot of US players seem have suffered injury with the national team. Does anybody know whether this happens on other teams as frequently, or are just special.
i’d want to know how much is club fixture congestion, how much is lack of rest, and how much is the way we train. i do feel like we get more hurt than before. i think part of our struggles is we like to call people over and over so they get little rest outside an exhausting club calendar. part is the scheme sucks and so we can’t grind out wins executing a game plan without key people. i think another part is shallow pool use and xerox lineups which means the bench and replacements are inexperienced with the senior team. i think another part is this is the first US team in recent memory to ask guys to play hurt outside the world cup. eg adams had no business here this summer. the copa juice proved putrid and now he’s playing no place. so what.
but anyhow, spend some money and hire someone to figure out what’s happening. or even just task an assistant to talk to all the pool players and inquire if anything in our control affects the players’ health. or what we can do to help them stay well.
the US is also fairly crappy on road games for a team generally as good as it has been (though not lately) at home. i’d also want to find out why we struggle on the road. details, hotels, transport, air travel, jet lag, etc. stuff we can see if we can fix. not just generalized pouting.
the recent home swoon, to me, is we’ve eroded 2-3 goals in quality which turns home laughers into close ones or ties, and close ones into losses, and tight losses into laughers the other way. we were better against colombia in 18 and panama for years. losing to canada at home is also erosion.
i think we are kind of an arrogant organization that thinks we just show up with anyone and we’ll win. the arrogance of late is completely unjustified. it’s time to look at ourselves, and not just the coaching positions but how we handle everything, eg, quit calling hurt people. if the rules require us to notify potential calups then send more notices than we need with a breakage or rest cushion.
Yes it happens on other national teams, but the best national teams have depth of talent. Their are bench players on France, Argentina, England, Germany etc… that would be starters for our National team.
I watched Germany vs Holland and Holland lost Nathan Ake from Man City he is one of my fav players, so yeah it happens to other Nat teams too Alex.
I watched Germany vs Holland and Holland lost Nathan Ake from Man City he is one of my fav players, so yeah it happens to other Nat teams too Alex.
but what you want to know is are we worse than baseline. other NT have injuries but are our absolute amount of them, or our rate, higher than the next team.
or, if you want to avoid the comparative stats, you ask everyone who’s gotten hurt in the pool their honest understanding of what was to blame. you clump the causes and try to correct them. didn’t warm up right — do it as a group and insist. too many games — maybe limit caps a year. felt like our conditioning actually got him hurt — fire the conditioning coach and have them handle that different. cramped in coach — spring for business class. on and on.
we need to think about what we’re doing and be semi-scientific about it. we come across to me as the oddest of paradoxes, the smug, self-sure, mid-table side.
IV,
“but what you want to know is are we worse than baseline. other NT have injuries but are our absolute amount of them, or our rate, higher than the next team……or, if you want to avoid the comparative stats, you ask everyone who’s gotten hurt in the pool their honest understanding of what was to blame………………….”
Sounds like a half ass undertaking .
Who is the next team? How can you compare our injury profile to, for example, Mexico’s, without taking into consideration the club data on all their players and our players?
A player spends the majority of his time training, practicing and playing games with his club. It is not even close,
There’s zero sense in studying a national team players injuries without doing a deep dive into the data from the club. That study should probably originate from the club not the national team.
Clubs try to prevent injuries. National teams increase the likelihood that they will happen.
Players are on international duty when they might normally be resting or recovering from injury. National team duty adds x amount of wear and tear to a body that is already at greater risk of injury than normal.
It’s mostly we don’t closely follow the rosters of other teams. I suppose there probably a slight increase of risk due to the longer travel of players in Europe but that effects teams like Brazil and Argentina too.
AlexH,
This is a topic that is about 30 years old if not older.
The USMNT does not appear to suffer any more than any other country that plays a comparable number of games and has a majority of players playing as far away as we do..
However, because we don’t have a lot of top players, our injuries are really noticeable. France or other adult teams probably have a number of players injured as well but no one notices. They have a guy like Benzema go down early in the World Cup and still make the final.
We lose Pulisic and it’s over for that tournament.
Another theory I considered was that we have a lot of guys whose playing time is inconsistent for club and country. They play “semi-regularly”.
The theory is that when you are consistently starting and playing 90 you can get into a rhythm. Pulisic used to be injury prone but last season Pulisic, Ream and Jedi, all pretty regular 90 minute guys at Milan and Fulham, seemed to be able to keep the injuries to a minimum.
There’s a reason clubs hate national team call ups. Another variable is that for most players, when they get called into international duty, that is normally the time when they would be resting or recovering from injury. If you’re not already hurt you’re asking to be hurt because you’re worn down and then going into a totally different setup with different coaches, players, fitness staffs, etc. And you may be asked to play a slightly different role than what you normally play. Oh, and long distance traveling does not help your health.
Taken separately it does not seem like a lot for real macho men to put with but when you add it all up, it’s amazing we don’t get more injured players.
I don’t recall any of this, especially not in the last several years under the Berhalter regime. It usually was the other way around, where players were getting injured for their clubs and couldn’t report to the NT, or they showed up to camp injured anyway to be examined by USMNT fitness trainers/staff
Without going too deep into the weeds, things tend to go in cycles.
Players spend the vast majority of their time, games, training, etc. at their clubs. That’s where they get worn down. But clubs can try to plan for all that and manage their minutes, etc. Maybe.
But they can’t control what happens with a national team. National team callups provide the joker in the deck and just finish them off.
Was Gio already predisposed to injury when he got here for the camp, in other words a time bomb? Or did Mikey Varas, IV’s favorite idiot, do something stupid and force Gio out of his normal routine and cause the injury? Maybe a little of both and just as likely, we’ll never really know.
Ever player is different but I am of the view that every player has only got X amount of time being able to play at a level that is acceptable to them and their managers. And that amount usually depends on how the player treats themselves.
If you shot the majority of the clubs full of truth serum, I bet they would all be in favor of get rid of national teams, at least from a business standpoint.
“A new groin injury has put Gio Reyna on the sidelines at Borussia Dortmund”…………should really be “A new groin injury WILL KEEP Gio Reyna on the sidelines AND OUT OF THE PICTURE at Borussia Dortmund”
Part of being a high level professional is keeping and maintaining your health, form, fitness and nutrition at an optimal level.
“And then I hope that he can continue on this good path afterwards.”
I would call having your ass firmly planted on the bench a “path”.
when Sahin said “I hope”, that was kind of telling for me smh