Gio Reyna marks USMNT return with goal in 2-1 win over Paraguay

• Mönchengladbach midfielder scores on early header

• USA next play Uruguay on Tuesday in Tampa, Florida

Just 209 days from kicking off their World Cup opener, the US men’s national team is still searching for options. Investigating possibilities. One might even use that loaded word: experimenting.

On a chilly fall night outside Philadelphia, at least one of those experiments yielded a possibility, an option, a long-awaited light at the end of a dark period for one of the most mercurial talents ever to wear a US jersey.