Reyna returns for Borussia Dortmund in U-23 match

The USMNT forward will hope to make his season debut after the international break

Gio Reyna is one step closer to making his season debut with Borussia Dortmund.

The Bundesliga club said on Friday that the U.S. national team forward had played in a game with its U-23 team, marking his first match action of the 2023-24 campaign.

Dortmund’s Instagram account said that Reyna played around 60 minutes in a 1-0 defeat to Schalke’s U-23 squad.

Reyna missed all of Dortmund’s preseason and the club’s first four regular season matches with an injury he sustained in June’s CONCACAF Nations League final.

Reyna was also left off the USMNT squad for this month’s friendlies against Uzbekistan and Oman as he nears a return to full fitness.

Dortmund is off to a sputtering start in its Bundesliga campaign, winning its opener against FC Köln but then drawing consecutive games against likely relegation battlers Bochum and Heidenheim

The 20-year-old will hope to make his season debut after the international break when Dortmund travels to face Freiburg on September 16.

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