If you scanned the crowd at Monday’s Generation adidas Cup qualifier between the Philadelphia Union and New York City FC, you likely would have noticed a couple of U.S. World Cup legends.
They work for different teams now - Earnie Stewart as the Union’s Sporting Director and Claudio Reyna as New York City FC’s Director of Football Operations - but seeing them standing next to each other was, for me at least, the soccer equivalent of watching Stranger Things on Netflix. I was immediately taken back to the 1998 and 2002 World Cups when Reyna and Stewart were patrolling the midfield for the Yanks.