Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in-depth with the most intriguing

people in the world soccer.

In this episode, I'm joined by Eddie Johnson, the former U.S. National Team Forward, who these days is a skills development

coach in Orlando.

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Onward! Our guest today is Eddie Johnson. Eddie had a 15 year playing career with clubs in

MLS and in Europe and he scored 19 goals and 63 appearances for the US

men's national team. He retired from playing in 2015 at age 31

due to a heart ailment.

These days, he's working in Orlando

as a skills development coach, including

for U.S. star Christian Polisic, also Kyle Laren, Justin Miram, and soon to be

Dom Dwyer and Sydney Larrue. Eddie, thanks for joining me.

Oh, thanks for having me, Grant.

It's been a while.

It has been a while.

I remember the first time I covered you, I came to Dallas back and I think it was 2005

when you were doing really well there and scoring goals for the national team and

we had a nice lunch and did it for a story in sports illustrated good 13 years later to be still talking to you.

And soccer, it's small.

Very small, very, very small.

Lots to talk about, but I wanted to start by asking you about what I see you posting regularly

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