Remembering Johan Cruyff / USA-Guatemala preview

Planet Fútbol with Grant Wahl

Sports Illustrated

Sports, Sports News, News, Soccer

4.6 • 859 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The soccer world was saddened Thursday by the passing of Ajax, Barcelona and Netherlands great Johan Cruyff, who lost his battle with lung cancer at age 68. We begin our latest podcast with a tribute to Cruyff, as SI's Brian Straus and Grant Wahl share their memories of watching Cruyff play and offer thoughts on his profound impact on the game and undeniable legacy. It's an international fixture week, and we preview the U.S.'s pair of World Cup qualifiers against Guatemala. Wahl also speaks with Manchester United and Belgium midfielder Marouane Fellaini (NOTE: The conversation took place prior to this week's tragic terrorist attacks in Brussels), whose No. 1-ranked team in the world will face Portugal on Tuesday in the build-up to Euro 2016. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:34.0	Again, that's S.I.Kis.com. Oh, Welcome to S.I's Planet Football Podcast or each week we discuss the latest in the world of soccer.
1:01.7	I'm S.I.com soccer editor joined today by
1:05.2	S.I. senior writer Grantwall and S.I.com's Brian Strauss. Gentlemen,
1:10.3	welcome how are you? Doing well.
1:13.0	I'm in Guatemala for the U.S. Guatemala World Cup qualifier Friday night.
1:17.0	Brian's gonna take the baton from me in Columbus on Tuesday.
1:21.0	Fantastic, Brian, how's everything going? on my couch
1:25.0	couch all as well
1:28.0	fantastic uh... before we jump into a lot of World Cup qualifying talks obviously the international break
1:34.5	the USA as Grant said as two games against Guatemala we'd be remiss if we didn't
1:39.3	begin with the news of the day we're taping this on Thursday and one of the greatest players of all time
1:44.6	Yon Croix has passed away at the age of 68.
1:47.7	An awful, awful sorry he lost the battle with lung cancer and guys I just wanted to get from you
1:54.4	your your memories of him if you had any interactions with him. Brian I know we were
2:02.3	talking off air before and you said you actually got a chance to to
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