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| DOB : 07/20/1973 |
Position : Midfielder |
| Height :
5'10''
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Weight : 160 |
| Team : U.S. Men |
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MNT Career Stats
GP: 108 – Goals: 8
World Cup Stats
GP: 7 – Goals: 0
World Cup Qualifying Stats
GP: 31 – Goals: 1
U.S. National Team: Now has 31 World Cup qualifying games to his credit, tied for the most in team history … Once again injuries hampered his full productivity in qualifying, but he played in eight World Cup qualifiers throughout the campaign … Brilliantly assisted on DaMarcus Beasley’s key goal in the USA’s World Cup clinching 2-0 victory against Mexico on Sept. 3, 2005 … Demonstrated why he is widely regarded as the best U.S. field player ever, utilizing his skill, vision and composure to lead the U.S. to the 2002 World Cup quarterfinals ... One of the most accomplished American players in Europe, he played over three years at famed Glasgow Rangers, winning a Scottish Premier League championship and competing in the prestigious UEFA Champions League … 2005: Between club commitments, injury and needed rest, had a challenging year, appearing three times in qualifying for the U.S … Helped give the Americans a welcome cushion by setting up Damarcus Beasley for an important second goal against Mexico on Sept. 3 in Columbus … Named Man of the Match against Trinidad & Tobago on Aug. 17, despite not appearing on the scoresheet … 2004: The perennial U.S. captain played eight times in the year, including five starts in World Cup qualifying … Captained the team through the first five qualifiers before an injury on Sept. 18 put him out for the remainder of the year … Tallied three assists on the year, all in consecutive games … The first was a ball to Tony Sanneh for the final goal in a 4-0 win against Honduras on June 2, capping off his 100th appearance for the U.S. … Set up DaMarcus Beasley for the first of his two goals in the first game of second-round qualifying against Grenada on June 12, surpassing Eric Wynalda with his 17th career assist … Provided the help on Landon Donovan’s opening goal of a 3-2 win eight days later … Earned Man of the Match honors for his performance in the USA’s 2-0 qualifying win in El Salvador on Oct. 9 … 2003: Sidelined for the first half of 2003 while recovering from a torn ACL, he made his return to competitive football by entering as a substitute in the USA’s 2-1 win against Paraguay, just more than eight months after his injury … Captained the side to a third-place finish at the Gold Cup, starting four matches … Earned Man of the Match honors for his inspired performance against Brazil in the semifinal match … 2002: After missing the opening match against Portugal, he captained the side through every minute of the World Cup concluding with the quarterfinal defeat to Germany … Played one of his finest matches for the United States in the 2-0 second-round win against Mexico, setting up the goal by Brian McBride and tirelessly patrolling the right flank … Made his 2002 debut on Feb. 13 in a 1-0 loss to Italy … Started and played solidly in the midfield in a 2-1 loss to Ireland … His presence in the midfield was missed in a 4-2 loss to Germany in March … 2001: Played in five of 10 final round qualifiers, with the U.S. posting a 4-0-1 record with him in the lineup … Was forced to miss the July 1 match away to Mexico due to yellow card accumulation … Went on to miss the next two qualifying losses to Honduras and Costa Rica through injury … Made his triumphant return against Jamaica on Oct. 7, playing a part in both goals … His in-swinging free-kick to the near post found Joe-Max Moore for the first goal just four minutes in … Later, a clever one-two combination would place Landon Donovan in a position to earn the USA’s game-winning penalty … Went goalless in a calendar year for the first time in eight years with the team … 2000: Equaled his career high with three assists on the year ... Displayed his creative touch when he set up Ante Razov's goal in Guatemala with a series of deft moves that freed the striker ... Scored his eighth international goal in the Nike U.S. Cup against South Africa ... 1999: Played in four matches with the National Team in 1999, scoring one goal ... His goal was the capper in the USA’s 3-0 win over Germany on Feb. 6 ... Continued in his role as the USA’s midfield catalyst, he wore the captain’s armband twice during the year ... 1998: Played one of the best games of his U.S. career, tallying a goal and two assists in the team’s 3-0 win over Austria ... Finished the year with a goal and two assists in nine games ... One of only three U.S. players to play every minute in the 1998 World Cup ... 1997: Scored the game-winning goal in the first five minutes in the USA’s 3-0 World Cup qualifying win over Canada Nov. 9, 1997, the game that clinched the USA’s World Cup berth ... Started 13 of the USA’s 16 World Cup qualifiers, scoring a goal and two assists as the team’s central playmaker ... Played in the FIFA All-Star Game in Hong Kong, scoring a goal ... 1996: Starred for the ’96 Olympic Team as an “overage” player ... Scored less than one-minute into the opening game of the 1996 Olympics against Argentina, the country where his father was born ... 1995: Helped the USA capture the Nike U.S. Cup ’95 title and advance to the semifinals of the 1995 Copa America ... Experienced his most productive day for the USA in a 4-0 thrashing of Mexico in U.S. Cup ’95, tallying one goal and two assists ... 1994: Was the youngest member of the 1994 World Cup Team, but did not play in the tournament due to a hamstring injury ... 1992: Was the youngest member of the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team which finished with a 1-1-1 record in Barcelona ... Played every minute of the tournament and assisted on two goals ... 1988-1991: Scored three goals in Olympic qualifying play and scored two goals for the Under-23 1991 Pan-Am gold-medal winning team ... Member of the U.S. Under-16 National Team in 1988 and Under-20 National Team in 1989 ... First Appearance: Jan. 15, 1994, vs. Norway ... First Goal: April 20, 1994, vs. Moldova.
Professional: Completed his second year at Manchester City after leaving relegated Sunderland in 2003 … Moved to Sunderland and the EPL in December 2001 for an American record $5.7 million transfer … Has played in Europe for 10 seasons, across three leagues (Bundesliga, Scottish Premier League and English Premier League) … One of only a handful of Americans to play in both the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Cup … 2005-06: Started well in the 2005-2006 campaign, playing in the first ten league matches tallying one goal and one assist …Suffered an injured MCL that kept him out for a month … Recovered to play four games in December before succumbing to a stress fracture in his right ankle just before the new year … 2004-05: Remained on the sidelines for the first three months of 2005, returning to first team football on March 7 against Bolton … Played in all 10 remaining league matches, scoring twice as Manchester City finished eighth in the Premiership … 2003-04: Went the distance for the Light Blues first six games of the 2004-05 season, then a quad injury sidelined him for the remainder of the year … Part of the rotation system employed by Kevin Keegan, Reyna patrolled the midfield for the Light Blues … A calf injury kept him out for most of January … Netted his first goal in a Man City uniform Oct. 16, nailing the coffin on a 6-2 demolition of a Bolton side that went into half time level at 1-1 … 2002-03: Sported the captain’s armband for the Black Cats to start the campaign … Named Sunderland’s “Player of the Month” for September … Tore the ACL in his left knee in the 37th minute against Bolton on Oct. 26, forcing him to miss the remainder of the season … Scored his first goal of the year for the Black Cats in a 7-0 thrashing of Cambridge in the second round of the Worthington Cup on Oct. 1 … 2001-02: Came to Sunderland from Rangers in the largest transfer ever for an American … Played in 10 league matches for Rangers, scoring two goals … Also tallied in his lone Scottish League Cup appearance … Started all six of Rangers’ Champions League and UEFA Cup matches … Played 90 minutes in his first four appearances for Sunderland … Scored the game-winner in a 1-0 win against Everton on Dec. 22, 2001, his home debut for the club … Scored twice in the first half against Leicester City on April 1, and nearly had a third but was denied by the woodwork … Tallied three times for Sunderland in 15 matches … 2000-01: Versatile as well as durable, he played numerous positions for Rangers in Scotland ... Appeared in 31 total matches (starting 29 of those games) ... Played in eight Champions League matches, helping Rangers advance to the Group Phase … Also started two UEFA Cup matches and two Scottish Cup matches … Had two goals, including one against Rangers hated rival Celtic on Aug. 27, 2000 ... 1999-2000: Played 90 minutes in each of Rangers four matches against Celtic, helping the team to go undefeated (3-0-1) against their Glasgow neighbors ... Helped the team to its 11th Scottish Premier League title in 12 years ... Also scored once in nine European appearances for Rangers (seven Champions League matches and two UEFA Cup games) ... Scored two goals in a 2-0 win over Hearts on August 7, 1999 ... Was named “Man of the Match” in a key UEFA Champions League qualifying match against AS Parma after breaking a 1-1 deadlock with a goal in the 70th minute on August 10, 1999 ... Was named Scotland’s “Player of the Month” in August after opening the season with four goals in four games ... 1998-99: Was transferred to Glasgow Rangers from VfL Wolfsburg (for $2.8 million), where he was in the middle of his second season on loan from Bayer Leverkusen ... Started Rangers final six games of 1999, helping the team to a Scottish Premiership crown ... Was the first American ever to captain a team in Europe when he was named Wolfsburg’s captain in the summer of 1998 ... Opened the season starting five straight matches and earning “Man of the Match” honors in Wolfburg’s second game of the year (a 3-3 draw with Hansa Rostock), but was being used mostly as a substitute by the winter break ... Finished the season with Wolfsburg appearing in 20 league matches (starting nine games) ... Scored his only two league goals on the year in a 4-1 victory over Hamburg on March 6, 1999 ... Also started five German Cup games, helping the team into the tournament semifinals ... Had one goal in German Cup action on Dec. 2, 1998, in a 3-1 fourth-round win over Sportfreunde Siegen ... 1997-98: Finished the year with 28 appearances for Wolfsburg, including 27 starts ... Established himself as the team’s leader in the midfield, scoring five goals (four in the league, one in cup play) and being named “Man of the Match” four times during the first half of the season ... Scored goals in both games against perennial league leader Bayern Munich ... Was ranked as the 25th best player in the German Bundesliga in 1998 by Kicker magazine ... 1996-97: Made five appearances as a substitute for Bayer Leverkusen ... Loaned to VfL Wolfsburg from Leverkusen in July 1997 ... 1994-1996: Signed with the Bundesliga’s Bayer Leverkusen on Aug. 8, 1994, at the age of 21 following the 1994 World Cup ... Began to make a name for himself when he cracked the starting lineup of Leverkusen’s five-a-side team during the Bundesliga’s 1995 winter break.
College: One of the most decorated players in college soccer history, he helped lead the University of Virginia to three straight NCAA titles in 1991, 1992 and 1993 ...Won the 1992 and 1993 Missouri Athletic Club’s Player of the Year Award ... Soccer America Player of the Year in 1992 and 1993 ... A three time first-team NSCAA All-American ... Soccer America Freshman of the Year in 1991.
High School: Two-time Parade Magazine National Player of the Year at St. Benedict’s Prep High School in Newark, N.J. (1989 & 1990) ... Gatorade Player of the Year, and New Jersey State Player of the Year in 1990 ... St. Benedict’s won state titles his junior and senior seasons and put together a 47-game winning streak ... High school team lost just two games during his career, both while he was training with the U.S. Under-23 National Team ... Finished his high school career with 62 goals and 59 assists ... Attended the same high school as Tab Ramos, and was a high school teammate of U.S. National Team pool player Gregg Berhalter.
Personal: Married Danielle Egan in July 1997, two weeks after the U.S. team’s qualifier in El Salvador and one week after playing in the FIFA All-Star game in Hong Kong ... The couple had their first child (Jack) during the time of Claudio’s last-minute transfer to Rangers in the spring of 1999, and a second child (Giovanni) in 2002 ... Danielle, a former member of the U.S. Women’s National Team (6 caps, 1 goal), often gives him soccer advice ... Father is Argentinean and mother is Portuguese ... Lived in Argentina for short period of time as a youngster. |
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