So internal team matters are best aired in Vanity Fair? Fire this clown yesterday.
USMNT coach Gregg Berhalter has yet to speak to midfielder Gio Reyna after their dispute surrounding last year's World Cup, he told Vanity Fair.
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By all accounts, Reyna was a very disruptive to the team during the last world cup. He's lucky he wasn't just dismissed from the team for good.
Berhalter was being unfairly eviscerated in the media for not playing Reyna during the WC. And initially, nobody but the team understood that he was well within his rights, as coach, to send Reyna home. He could've done that and remained silent about why, but that would've pissed people off even more (the not knowing).
From what we've learned since, I would've probably sent Reyna home. A player with a bad attitude is just too distracting and disruptive.
But GB was nice enough to try to give Reyna another chance to remain with the team. And he was being pounded in the media because they didn't know anything about any of it. So, finally, he got fed up and tried to provide the media with some kind of answer. I can't blame him for that.
Yeah, the situation was less than ideal for the entire team. But it was entirely Reyna's fault.
Reyna's parents were an example of just about the worst possible behavior shy of physically assaulting a coach or player on the team. They should be banned from all US Soccer events for life.
I don't see it as a problem for GB to say he and Reyna haven't spoken yet but, to paraphrase him, he wants to do what can be done to move past it together with Reyna.