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November 7, 2026
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Gio Reyna is out for Haiti, and his replacement has scored in three straight

Reyna started all four fall matches and never finished one. U.S. Soccer withdrew him with an injury on Saturday and called Jack McGlynn, who has played every minute of Stoke City's last four league matches.

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Gio Reyna in a United States shirt during the friendly against Belgium on March 28, 2026.

U.S. Soccer withdrew Gio Reyna from the Haiti roster on Saturday with an injury and called Jack McGlynn of Stoke City in his place. The federation gave no detail on the injury and no timeline. Reyna scored for Strasbourg at Toulouse on Friday in the 67th minute and came off in the 70th.

That makes two changes in two days. George Campbell went out with a groin injury on Friday and Mark McKenzie came in. The roster stays at 25.

Reyna was not a fringe name on this list. He started all four of the fall friendlies, against Peru, Chile, Mexico and Canada. He also finished none of them. He played 259 of the 360 minutes, and Pochettino took him off at 61, 71, 82 and halftime.

The men who came on for him tell you how unsettled the place behind him is. It was a different player each time: Mathis Albert against Peru, Damion Downs against Chile, Brooklyn Raines against Mexico and Sebastian Berhalter against Canada. Downs and Raines are not on the Haiti roster. Albert and Berhalter are. Albert has four caps and plays at Borussia Dortmund. Berhalter has 22 and plays at Middlesbrough.

At his club he has appeared in all ten of Strasbourg's Ligue 1 matches this season, started eight, and played 645 of the 900 minutes.

McGlynn arrives with a smaller share and a better week. He has played 797 of Stoke's 1,350 Championship minutes, across 11 appearances in 15 matches, with nine starts. The share is the old part of that line. He has played all 360 minutes of Stoke's last four league matches. He scored against Preston on October 31, from a free kick at Blackburn on November 3, and at Portsmouth on Saturday, the day of the call. U.S. Soccer counts five league goals for him this season, the most at Stoke.

Three goals in a week is three matches. It is not a season, and it is not why he is here. He is 23, has 13 caps and two goals, and has not been in a United States squad since the Gold Cup final in July 2025. Calling him in keeps the midfield group at eight. It does not tell you who takes Reyna's place in the eleven.

That job now goes to someone already in camp. The four fall matches give no one a strong claim to it. Camp opens Monday. The United States plays Haiti on November 14 at Nu Stadium in Miami and on November 17 at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati.

Sources: U.S. Soccer roster releases of November 4 and November 7, 2026 (the 25, the withdrawal, McGlynn's caps, club and age, camp opening Monday, caps for Albert and Berhalter); ESPN match data for the four fall friendlies (starts, substitution minutes, replacements); ESPN match data for Strasbourg's and Stoke City's league seasons through November 7 (appearances, starts, minutes, goals); ESPN squad data for the 2025 Gold Cup final; ESPN schedule for the Haiti venues and dates.

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U.S. Soccer added Toulouse defender Mark McKenzie to the 25-man roster for the Concacaf Nations League quarterfinal against Haiti on November 6, replacing George Campbell, who was withdrawn with a groin injury. McKenzie, 27, has 30 caps and had not been in a camp since the World Cup. Later that day he scored in the 56th minute of Toulouse's 3-1 win over Strasbourg, his first league goal of the season, and has played all 900 of Toulouse's league minutes. Gio Reyna, also on the roster, scored for Strasbourg and came off in the 70th minute with an injury. The United States plays Haiti on November 14 in Miami and November 17 in Cincinnati.

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At least five of the eleven players who start for the United States against Peru on 2026-09-26 are drawn from the thirteen uncapped players named in the federation's 2026-09-17 roster notes (Mathis Albert, Cole Campbell, Justin Ellis, Zavier Gozo, Julian Hall, Diego Kochen, Adri Mehmeti, Peyton Miller, Neil Pierre, Brooklyn Raines, Brian Schwake, Cavan Sullivan, Frankie Westfield). Scored off the published starting eleven for that match. Resolves yes at five or more of those thirteen in the eleven; resolves no at four or fewer.

Filed with the 2026-09-19 piece on the fall roster. The thirteen uncapped names and the age figures are from ussoccer.com's 2026-09-17 roster announcement, opened 2026-09-19. Club minutes are from data/pool/usmnt/2026-09-14.json, computed in a script rather than summed by hand. The neutral expectation of 11 times 13/28, which is 5.1, is what sets the threshold at five, so the call sits deliberately at the point where the age read and the orthodox read disagree.

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