If you were given the option of living his life, as horrible as it has been in a sporting sense over the past 10 years, would you not say absolutely? The guy has been bagging so much tail off of about ~2 years of playing good soccer. Amazing what marketing will do for someone.
But what if his sex life is like his football career? You know. A lot of media buzz and speculation, but not a lot of action where it counts.
Honestly, the kid's made alot of money in his life. Even if it fell short of where it should have been, he's probably lived a better life than most of the ppl on this forum. He's lived abroad, played a game for a living, even worn the USMNT shirt a few times in competition. And he has dated some pretty good looking women. Bottom line, he came along at a time when the level of the league required them to throw him into the deep end before he was mature enough to handle living up to it. Had he emerged today, he'd have stood a much better chance at fulfilling his potential without having to have the quote-unquote savior tag slapped upon him and over-inflating his ego. Many players fail to pan out because they either lack confidence and have noone who places that trust in them to build it up or have too much confidence with the same lack of trust. He's an example of the latter, but I take little joy in it. He had talent and would have been a great asset had he panned out. He just came around at the wrong time imo. Had he emerged today, he'd have been forced to fight more for every accolade that he got instead of having it handed to him before he was a finished product or proved anything on the field professionally.
Making money and having money are two different things. The world is filled with broke millionaire athletes. I only hope he, or his family, or his advisor (whoever that may be) were smart enough to properly invest and preserve what he earned. Still I naievly hold out hope that he is actually a late bloomer, and can somehow summon the physical wherewithal to turn his career around. Watching today's U20s in Korea, and comparing to what he did in Montreal against Poland, you can't tell me that he couldn't read the game, or that he wasn't tactically aware. He could. He was. He just never matured enough physically and emotionally to translate his youthful genius to the senior level.
He had flashes like the Gold Cup a few years back, but he also was sorely unpolished for someone his age by that time. That type of completeness to his game is something that is usually developed by your early twenties, not something that can be forced into it in your late twenties after over a decade of less than stellar nurturing, bad habits and lessened reflexes creep in.
I think one can absolutely make a case that he wasn't tactically aware. I don't think he was a smart player.
Happy birthday to the "new Pelé" Freddy Adu who turns 28 today. #FadedFootballer pic.twitter.com/sqS59HraKq— Lütfi Ibragimowiç Berdiwadabekow (@LotfiWada) June 2, 2017
What Adu should have been forced to do is to watch game tapes for 12 hours at a time in a locked room.
Happy Birthday Freddy!!! Gonna try and get a 2 chick pic tonight in his honor. Also, maybe vacuum my room.
Very true, sadly. However, I wonder if it applies to Freddy. I haven't seen too much evidence of him making the kind of major-league financial outlays of the kind that bankrupt ex-athletes make - the $150k car, the big-ticket mansion, etc. He also never got hitched, so he never needed the services of a celebrity divorce lawyer - that particular gig really costs money. I remember when he was in Finland and somebody posted some stuff from his Twitter account. One of them was a photo or photos of the new watch he'd just taken delivery of and he wanted to show to all his groupies . . . sorry, fans. The watch was what what you'd expect - gold, bling jewels, fancy box, etc. - and the threads had a mini-spike in posts with people slating him for shopping instead of practicing, squandering $$ on a $1,500 watch, and so on. I enlarged the shot to get the brand name (which I've forgotten) and googled it. The brand made watches all right, gold watches with diamonds too - so long as you don't mind diamonds made of glass and the gold being 1mm of fake-gold plating. The watch bloggers and message boards slated the brand for quality, with one guy saying something along the lines of "If you want a timepiece, better buy a Chinese Rolex. If you want a bracelet, it's too obviously cheap. The box is good quality." You could get it for $300 on Amazon.
Since I was banned from pbp thread for being an enlightened LBGTQ I thought I would visit the only place left to me and Freddy adu. He playing the soccer anymore?
Michael Bradley's goal against Mexico got me thinking I guess.. there are just some players who can hit the crossbar, while others who can't... Freddy's just one of the latter I guess...
[QUOTE="Crewmudgeon, post: 35507900 Watching today's U20s in Korea, and comparing to what he did in Montreal against Poland, you can't tell me that he couldn't read the game, or that he wasn't tactically aware. He could. He was. He just never matured enough physically and emotionally to translate his youthful genius to the senior level.[/QUOTE] With young players you never know. Look at Polish team from this tournament in Canada: Krychowiak, Krol, Janczyk were top stars. Dawid Janczyk was the biggest star and how did he end up (sold to CSKA Moscow for 4.8m Euro, 1 M Euro per year salary - drunken alcoholic escaping institutions through the fence now), Krol at Real Madrid at the time of the tournament, "best buddy of Raul" - completely paranoid schizophrenic megalomaniac looser not playing football anymore (he just published the book about himself called "A looser" to warn young players about too much soda water resulting from making too much money at young age). The only one who made it out of these three main stars is Krychowiak (two time EL winner with Sevilla), regular Polish NT 11, looking to transfer out of PSG to Milan, MC or Wolfsburg now (and his Girlfriend is better then anything on these Adu pictures as well!!!.
With young players you never know. Look at Polish team from this tournament in Canada: Krychowiak, Krol, Janczyk were top stars. Dawid Janczyk was the biggest star and how did he end up (sold to CSKA Moscow for 4.8m Euro, 1 M Euro per year salary - drunken alcoholic escaping institutions through the fence now), Krol at Real Madrid at the time of the tournament, "best buddy of Raul" - completely paranoid schizophrenic megalomaniac looser not playing football anymore (he just published the book about himself called "A looser" to warn young players about too much soda water resulting from making too much money at young age). The only one who made it out of these three main stars is Krychowiak (two time EL winner with Sevilla), regular Polish NT 11, looking to transfer out of PSG to Milan, MC or Wolfsburg now (and his Girlfriend is better then anything on these Adu pictures as well!!!.[/QUOTE] FWIW back in February 2012 Janczyk went on trial at Limerick in the Irish second division. A good PDL side would do well in that league. They weren't interested in him. Says it all.
Says he's Polish. Was that because of the argument about the "p" chant. I think after a slow start everyone ended up understanding how offensive it really is.
http://www.fotbolltransfers.com/site/news/79462 Freddy supposedly on trial with syrianska in the Swedish second division
Wow, I remember being so jealous of Adu, he was crushing the world at a time when no Mexican prospect looked half decent. So sad what happened to him. Looking backwards, trying to succeed at Philly would've been his best option.