Former Rangers hero's superstar son poised to move to club which provided one of his dad's biggest moments
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THEY were on the receiving end of one of his greatest moments.
But now Claudio Reyna could soon be watching his superstar son Giovanni line up in the colours of Italian side Parma.
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Giovanni Reyna is set to move to Serie A
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Claudio Reyna is congratulated on his goal by Barry Ferguson
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Claudio Reyna scores his famous goal
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That's after transfer guru Fabrizio Romano revealed that the Serie A side had submitted a formal bid to Borussia Dortmund for the services of the US international playmaker.
LAFC have also been linked with a move for the 22-year-old, who was actually born in Sunderland during Claudio's time there.
Romano wrote on X: "Parma submitted formal bid to Borussia Dortmund to sign Gio Reyna as key target for Serie A side.
"LAFC are not in active talks for Reyna despite reports, Parma are on it with with fee offered around 6m Euros."
Followers of the Ibrox club with long memories will remember August 1999, when the Ibrox men took on Parma in the qualifiers for the Champions League.
Some of the names in this Parma side trip off the tongue to this day: Gianluigi Buffon, Fabio Cannavaro, Lilian Thuram, to name just three.
But they came unstuck in the first leg of this qualifier at Ibrox.
Cannavaro got himself sent off in the opening period before Rod Wallace opened the scoring for Dick Advocaat's side.
But Reyna popped up with the clincher with around quarter of an hour left to give the Ibrox men a commanding 2-0 lead to take to Italy.
As it happened, the Gers went down by a single goal out in Parma, but the spot in the group stages - and a famous triumph - were theirs.
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