4.6 • 859 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Grant Wall, and welcome to the Planet Football Podcast, where I go in-depth with the most intriguing |
0:06.8 | people in the world soccer. |
0:09.2 | In this episode, I'm joined by Eddie Johnson, the former U.S. National Team Forward, who these days is a skills development |
0:15.8 | coach in Orlando. |
0:17.7 | Just a quick reminder, it's a huge help if you subscribe to, rate and review the podcast. It helps people find us. |
0:24.5 | Onward! Our guest today is Eddie Johnson. Eddie had a 15 year playing career with clubs in |
0:34.6 | MLS and in Europe and he scored 19 goals and 63 appearances for the US |
0:40.5 | men's national team. He retired from playing in 2015 at age 31 |
0:46.1 | due to a heart ailment. |
0:48.0 | These days, he's working in Orlando |
0:50.0 | as a skills development coach, including |
0:52.4 | for U.S. star Christian Polisic, also Kyle Laren, Justin Miram, and soon to be |
0:58.1 | Dom Dwyer and Sydney Larrue. Eddie, thanks for joining me. |
1:02.0 | Oh, thanks for having me, Grant. |
1:04.0 | It's been a while. |
1:05.0 | It has been a while. |
1:06.0 | I remember the first time I covered you, I came to Dallas back and I think it was 2005 |
1:11.0 | when you were doing really well there and scoring goals for the national team and |
1:16.8 | we had a nice lunch and did it for a story in sports illustrated good 13 years later to be still talking to you. |
1:24.0 | And soccer, it's small. |
1:27.0 | Very small, very, very small. |
1:29.0 | Lots to talk about, but I wanted to start by asking you about what I see you posting regularly |
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