DUESSELDORF, Germany (AP) — How far can the power of friendship get you at the World Cup? With Gio Reyna and Joe Scally in the team, the United States might just find out. Reyna and Scally are old friends who’ve had a blast playing together this season at German club Borussia Moenchengladbach and both made the U.S. roster for the World Cup this week. “The chemistry’s there and it will always be there,” Reyna said this month in a joint media availability with Scally. “We’re already close, but it feels like we’ve gotten even closer, which felt impossible, but it’s been a good year together,” Reyna said.He added his wife is friends with Scally’s fiancee and even their dogs are buddies.Reyna told the Associated Press last year his friend was the “cherry on top” in his decision to join Gladbach to revive his career this season after injuries and a controversial time at the 2022 World Cup.
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Scally argues their bond brings on-field benefits.“On the training field, in the locker room, in the car rides every day, I think we’ve definitely enjoyed every day because we know it doesn’t last forever,” Scally said. “I think we understand each other very well on the field. We want to play together more than we have. In the time that we do play together, something good normally comes out of it.”
