The U.S. Men’s National Team consists of players based all over the world. Unlike the Premier League and England or Spain and La Liga or Germany and Serie A, the best homegrown American players do not stay in America for very long. The standard of Major League Soccer simply is not high enough to do so.
As such, when young American players start to make waves outside of America, in competitions that are a higher standard than MLS, there is an immediate eagerness to crown them the next great young talent of the national team.
This week, it is the turn of 17-year-old Giovanni Reyna.