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Four Years Older and Wiser, USA's Gio Reyna Eyes Another World Cup Trip: 'I Learned So Much'

Gio Reyna was just 19 years old when he boarded a plane from Germany to Doha just before the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. He was expecting to play a major role on a United States squad filled with fellow youngsters who were talking the biggest stage in sports for the first time in their careers. Because the national team’s previous generation had failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup — the Americans' first miss in more than three decades — just only player on the squad, veteran defender DeAndre Yedlin, had ever played in global soccer’s quadrennial showpiece. The USA survived the group sta...