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Gio Reyna Talks USMNT's Win vs. Paraguay · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: You are so happy right now to be joined by
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  Speaker 1: the Auto Trader player of the match, a man that
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  Speaker 1: was celebrating his birthday just a couple of days ago
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, Happy Birthday. The celebrations continue, A goal and
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  Speaker 1: a since.
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  Speaker 2: What a week for you? Yeah, it was a perfect week.
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  Speaker 2: Just honestly happy to be that playing with this group
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  Speaker 2: or this staff. And yeah, a little gift to myself.
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  Speaker 3: Here's I go right here by the way.
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  Speaker 4: So we were saying that you have to score a
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  Speaker 4: lot of header.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you look like you could score a ton
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  Speaker 2: of headers.
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  Speaker 5: He was my first header ever, actually ever, great ever,
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  Speaker 5: I mean a professional and I've been, to be honest,
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  Speaker 5: the last few weeks, I've been training at at club
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  Speaker 5: at Glock Black because I'm pretty tall and I feel
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  Speaker 5: like I can jump pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: It's just about timing and technique. So look natural starting
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  Speaker 2: to pay off.
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  Speaker 3: So did I have a question? Did you know you
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  Speaker 3: passed your dad? As far as Storm goes for the
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  Speaker 3: national team, you have nine, he has eight.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have anything to say?
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  Speaker 3: You have polus right now? Alaud I love your dad.
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  Speaker 2: Good answer, no idea to be honest, Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Take us into the preparation This is obviously a huge
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  Speaker 6: opportunity coming back. You're going to get to start from
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  Speaker 6: a mindset, how do you approach not only what you
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  Speaker 6: want to accomplish, but how you make this team better
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  Speaker 6: in that creative playmaker position.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, just play with my instincts, be myself, you know,
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  Speaker 2: That's what the coach is telling me the last few days,
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  Speaker 2: last last week, and not just myself, but the group
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  Speaker 2: around me has made it so easy. We've had a
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  Speaker 2: great week of training, and yeah, I think it showed
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  Speaker 2: today and the patow is a really good performance. Still
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  Speaker 2: a few things to clean up, but overall, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was great for myself with the rest of the team,
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  Speaker 2: So it was great.
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  Speaker 4: Now, I definitely agree it was a great performance from
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  Speaker 4: from start to finish. A few things here and there,
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  Speaker 4: but overall it was a It was a pretty chrippy,
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  Speaker 4: chippy game right follows here and there. What was said
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  Speaker 4: at halftime and then going into that second half knowing
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  Speaker 4: that it was going to be a battle after the
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  Speaker 4: first forty.
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  Speaker 2: Five, Yeah, I think a bit of both of being
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  Speaker 2: up to the challenge and also staying smart and playing
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  Speaker 2: our game. You know, we felt like we had more
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  Speaker 2: quality on the or on the field, and we're able
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  Speaker 2: to create more chances than we did in the first half.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, just obviously winning the game, take advantage of
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  Speaker 2: the spaces that we could take advantage of the first half,
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  Speaker 2: and just yeah, win the game. It's so nice to
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  Speaker 2: win games.
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  Speaker 6: So that it looks like you and Bellagun have a
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  Speaker 6: good relationship, But what are what are the qualities that
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  Speaker 6: you guys that you like about him, that you've found
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  Speaker 6: good chemistry together.
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  Speaker 2: I think we both can just do a bit of everything.
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  Speaker 2: I think we just try to yeah, working it in
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  Speaker 2: training and just speak. Honestly, I think communication is the
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  Speaker 2: most important thing between us, and we have a really
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  Speaker 2: really good relationship on and off the pitch. So it's
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  Speaker 2: eye contacts, little things that we've grown to know to
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  Speaker 2: get get each other, get to know each other. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's great to play with them. Makes my life easy
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  Speaker 2: and I try to help them out to We saw
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  Speaker 2: your header take us through.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if we can roll the flow goal
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  Speaker 1: that you assisted on take us through.
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  Speaker 2: What happened out there for that one, Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: it was a great pressing sequence on the left side
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  Speaker 2: with I think Rode and Max and Roldy and Max
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  Speaker 2: are great all night, and they're to advance the ball
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  Speaker 2: to flow and then I, yeah, like I said, just
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  Speaker 2: try to work off him and ran off him and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: try to put it back in the box, a little
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  Speaker 2: deflection and it fell to him. So yeah, winning goal.
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  Speaker 6: Right, here's the press h Luna rolled on and then
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  Speaker 6: the quick little accommodation and the one too. Geo, you
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  Speaker 6: get the goal, you get the assist, You probably get
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  Speaker 6: one of the softest yellow cards you've ever been shown.
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  Speaker 2: In your career telling me about it.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, but again, a seventy five minute performance. As you
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  Speaker 6: work your way back to full fitness, how important are
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  Speaker 6: nights like this to get a good run out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: Now it's just consistently doing this on a weekly basis
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  Speaker 2: and uh yeah, confidence, fitness, and then I believe we'll
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  Speaker 2: all fall into place, with myself and with the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the team. It was a scuffle at the end
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  Speaker 2: was honestly, I have no idea. I was kind of
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  Speaker 2: looking off to the side, and then Alex and Song
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  Speaker 2: from their team seemed like they weren't very happy with
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  Speaker 2: each other. So we Yeah, it's a friend the game,
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  Speaker 2: but it's competitive environment. We wanted to win this game.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously we've played friendlies pretty much all last year, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's important to get that competitive energy in this group
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  Speaker 2: and take it with us. I think it's great for Alex.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so coming into another tough match on Tuesday against
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  Speaker 3: what do you guys say from this match and maybe
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  Speaker 3: a couple of things and you guys need to improve
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  Speaker 3: on to get ready for a rare big test.
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  Speaker 2: I think number one is the intensity and the energy
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  Speaker 2: and the collectiveness that we showed in this in this
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  Speaker 2: game was the number one thing that stood out to me.
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  Speaker 2: I think we had a great team performance. Obviously individuals
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  Speaker 2: are great too, but start to finish, all eleven guys
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  Speaker 2: and all the sudd that came in really just work
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  Speaker 2: their tail off and gave everything with them without the ball.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, we have a lot of quality are
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  Speaker 2: on the field. So if we start with intensity and
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  Speaker 2: fight together, then we believe that it can be a
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  Speaker 2: lot of teams.
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  Speaker 1: As we send you out of here, we can't have
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  Speaker 1: you sit next to this guy who's bundled up in
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  Speaker 1: a scarf and not get you one of your own.
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  Speaker 1: When you're the player of the game, you get your
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  Speaker 1: TNT scarf that say for the player of the game.
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  Speaker 1: And it's pretty cold out here in Philadelphia, So do.
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  Speaker 3: You leave that in the locker room?
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell you that you're not going to be.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be happy to see you. What a great game tonight.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate you joining us here and we'll see a
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  Speaker 1: few days in Tampa.
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  Speaker 5: Appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Garena