Carolina Reyna’s brace in the U.S. women’s national team’s opening game of this summer’s U-17 World Cup could have gotten lost amid the torrent of goals in a 17–0 win over Samoa. Yet, those strikes will forever have a place in American soccer history.
A few months before Reyna’s role in the barn-storming battering, her brother Gio scored for the men’s senior national team on home soil in a 4–1 thumping of Paraguay. The two offspring of retired USMNT star, Claudio Reyna, now hold the distinction of the first brother-sister pair to ever score for the States at a World Cup.
