Previous U.S. Soccer Star’s Partner Exposed in Alleged World Cup Blackmail Plan

It appears we have a significant U.S. soccer scandal on our hands.

Danielle Reyna, the other half of previous American and global club soccer star Claudio Reyna and daddy of present USMNT gamer Gio Reyna, was the one who exposed a troubling incident involving current head coach Gregg Berhalter from when he was 18 years of ages in a call with U.S. soccer executives, she informed Fox Sports.

The call happened on Dec. 11 after remarks made by Berhalter at a top in which he slammed a confidential gamer, extensively thought to be Gio Reyna, ended up being public.

Claudio Reyna likewise threatened to share claims about Berhalter’s past, according to ESPN, though he rejected that claim.

Danielle, a previous USWNT gamer who was roomies with Berhalter’s other half Rosalind at North Carolina, validated in a declaration to Fox Sports that she reported the event to USSF sporting director Earnie Stewart.

“To set the record straight, I did call Earnie Stewart on December 11, just after the news broke that Gregg had made negative statements about my son Gio,” Danielle Reyna composed Wednesday to Fox Sports. “I have actually understood Earnie for several years and consider him to be a buddy. I wished to let him understand that I was definitely annoyed and devasted [sic] that Gio had actually been put in such a dreadful position, which I felt extremely personally betrayed by the actions of somebody my household had actually thought about a buddy for years.

” As part of that discussion, I informed Earnie that I believed it was particularly unjust that Gio, who had actually excused acting immaturely about his playing time, was still being dragged through the mud when Gregg had actually requested and got forgiveness for doing something a lot even worse at the exact same age.

“Without going into detail, the statements from (Tuesday) significantly minimize the abuse on the night in question. Rosalind Berhalter was my roommate, teammate and best friend, and I supported her through the trauma that followed. It took a long time for me to forgive and accept Gregg afterward, but I worked hard to give him grace, and ultimately made both of them and their kids a huge part of my family’s life. I would have wanted and expected him to give the same grace to Gio. This is why the current situation is so very hurtful and hard.”

The event in concern was a decades-old act of domestic violence in which Berhalter kicked his now-wife, Rosalind. Berhalter shared his accounting of the story in a prolonged declaration launched Tuesday, in which he confessed to misdeed in 1991 when he was 18. Berhalter recognized an “individual” who got in touch with U.S. Soccer in “an apparent effort to leverage something very personal from long ago” in an effort to get him fired.

Now, we obviously understand who that person was. And it followed Claudio and Danielle’s child, Gio, appeared to get on the wrong side of Berhalter throughout the Americans’ perform at the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

Berhalter supposedly informed Gio that he would have a minimal function prior to the competition began and followed through on his guarantee. Reyna just logged 53 minutes amount to worldwide Cup throughout 2 video games, with no starts.

After the U.S. was removed from the World Cup, Berhalter spoke at the HOW Institute for Society’s Top on Moral Management and discussed that he “had a player that was clearly not meeting expectations on and off the field.” He did not point out Reyna by name, however it was extensively presumed that the 19-year-old Borussia Dortmund star was the offender. The next day, Gio Reyna validated it.

It was around the exact same time that Danielle Reyna called U.S. Soccer– with, Berhalter declares, the intent of getting him fired.

Berhalter and Claudio Reyna– an embellished gamer in U.S. soccer, having actually belonged of the 1998, 2002 and 2008 American World Cup groups– have a relationship that covers years. The 2 played soccer together as far back as their youth and high school leagues and overlapped on the nationwide group for over a years. The 2 partners, Danielle and Rosalind, were likewise soccer colleagues at the University of North Carolina.

The dispute is plainly individual– and the Reynas appear to have actually been successful in harmful Berhalter’s track record. On Wednesday, U.S. Soccer revealed that it would be assistant coach Anthony Hudson, not Berhalter, that would lead a January camp in California as the examination continues.