Freddy Adu: All Falls Down
American Prodigy: Becoming Great
English - December 15, 2020 08:15 - 37 minutes - 34.1 MBSoccer Sports Society & Culture Personal Journals grant wahl the nineties freddy adu dc united mls pele prodigy soccer sports us soccer Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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After a championship-winning rookie season, anything seemed possible for Freddy. Yet over the next 14 years, Freddy would play for more than a dozen teams in MLS, Europe, South America and the USL, slowly turning from an American Prodigy into a cautionary tale. Short flashes of success in summer tournaments provided flickering glimpses of hope that Freddy would gain traction and turn into a superstar. But Adu could never establish consistency at the club level. Grant Wahl watched Freddy struggle to build momentum in his career as it faded away. What went wrong?