{"id":31512,"date":"2026-08-04T20:12:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/31512\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T20:12:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T20:12:13","slug":"us-midfielder-gio-reyna-joins-french-club-strasbourg-from-monchengladbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/31512\/","title":{"rendered":"US midfielder Gio Reyna joins French club Strasbourg from M\u00f6nchengladbach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STRASBOURG, France (AP) \u2014 United States midfielder Gio Reyna is getting a fresh start at French club Strasbourg to reset after an underachieving season in Germany.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcstrasbourgalsace.fr\/giovanni-reyna-rejoint-le-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Strasbourg said Tuesday it signed<\/a> the 23-year-old Reyna on a five-year deal <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/reyna-gladbach-dortmund-transfer-borussia-014dcb647961cde105aaeae84c4d27ee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach<\/a>. The transfer fee was reported to be 3 million euros ($3.5 million).<\/p>\n<p>Reyna played in all five U.S. games at the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/gio-reyna-goal-world-cup-usa-17cbce140c8a5fd871e0c6777a42b0a6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scored a signature goal<\/a> to cap the opening 4-1 win against Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p>He had a quiet debut season with Gladbach, scoring just once in 20 games, after several seasons at Borussia Dortmund.<\/p>\n<p>Strasbourg, which is in a shared ownership group with Chelsea, placed eighth in Ligue 1 last season and did not qualify for any European competition.<\/p>\n<p>Reyna will play for new coach Hugo Oliveira, a long-time former assistant to Marco Silva who left Fulham to join Benfica.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STRASBOURG, France (AP) \u2014 United States midfielder Gio Reyna is getting a fresh start at French club Strasbourg&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6228,3934,1176],"class_list":["post-31512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-s","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117039067741708795","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}