Freddy Adu making news again.... Yahoo: Prodigal Alvarez must avoid pitfalls of Adu — and USMNT must make sure he doesn't get away At 14, he was recognized as a bona fide prodigy with fairly limitless potential. At 15, he became a professional soccer player and people took note. Sound familiar? If Freddy Adu is still burrowed anywhere in your long-term memory, it probably does. Adu is 29 now. But he has become more cautionary tale of teenage hype than a real person still trying to outrun the shadow of the gargantuan expectations dropped on him before he could legally drive, a peripatetic journey that’s mostly been a slog of disappointment. You probably aren’t entirely sure who the present-day analogue alluded to here is. And that’s very much by design. Efrain Alvarez – who just goes by Efra – is one of the most talented fully homegrown American players to come through in many years. He’s a left-footed playmaker from a working-class Mexican-American neighborhood in East Los Angeles. And he only just turned 16 at the start of this summer. Yet he’s been a professional for more than a year. And with such a precocious ascent comes the usual warnings and anxieties of this post-Adu American soccer scene. ... The second boy, Carlos, was the second overall MLS SuperDraft pick by now-defunct Chivas USA out of UConn in 2013 and still plays professionally for the Las Vegas Lights of the USL – where he is, as it happens, Freddy Adu’s teammate. Pretty cool for Freddy Adu that he got to play (at least for a few minutes) against the latest Freddy Adu... another nice goal from Alavarez too: 🚨 SICK GOAL ALERT 🚨@efrain_alvarez1 pops one over the keeper. pic.twitter.com/ePzi9nvrBG— LA Galaxy II (@LAGalaxyII) September 9, 2018
What is your favorite Christopher nolan movie? To me the best director in Hollywood at the moment. Dark knight FTW. Inception/interstellar/the prestige/dark knight rises all a VERY close second!— @FreddyAdu (@FreddyAdu) September 15, 2018
Freddy was on the bench but did not play in the Lights 2-1 home loss to Portland this evening. 6 games left in the season.
Waaaay too many timelines in that movie. Can't believe I agree with something Adu posted, but here it is: Dark Knight is his best.
Statement from Lights FC Owner & CEO Brett Lashbrook: pic.twitter.com/RUTT8Nnbug— Las Vegas Lights FC (@lvlightsfc) September 18, 2018 This time Freddy’s coach has quit, apparently. Well, the technical director. Good for all parties in my estimation.
Does anyone have a sense of whether these A league/NASL, whatever non-MLS league teams are always running a deficit? Does any owner of one of these teams make any profit? I can't imagine that there is a lot of revenue pouring in at the gate, and there aren't a shiite ton of jerseys flying off shelves. They can't make much from TV revenue. I'm not sure how these are viable concerns unless they have significantly deep pocketed owners who probably don't mind a loss on their balance sheet for tax purposes.
they lose around $2M per year on average. i think soctakes did some research and a report on that a while back.
Crazy. In the land of capitalism, that seems to be like bizzaro-business. Again I think this must be the realm of insanely wealthy people who probably look at it as a good opportunity for a loss on the balance sheet at the end of the year or just couldn't be bothered about losing a measley 2M/yr.
Freddy was on the bench but did not play in Isidro Sanchez first game as coach without his father as technical director, a 3-3 draw with Reno in which Mendiola had a brace and saved the point late. Orange County at home on Wednesday. Maybe Freddy will get some time with the mid-week turnaround.
Clubs in Europe lose a lot more than that. But in their case, it's the price of money launderingloving the game. ManCity alone went $81m more into the red last cycle. So, who knows. https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewbrennan/2018/03/01/overspending-in-the-premier-league-continues-and-its-worrying/
The article is here. https://www.soctakes.com/2018/04/18...s-of-owning-a-lower-division-pro-soccer-team/ I expect the number varies quite a bit and the NASL may have driven some of the numbers. But sports teams have always been expensive toys.
Sigh...Freddy in the 18 again on Wednesday night. Did not play in a 5-3 loss in which a goal was needed late. Visibly disappointed walking back to the bench after the last subs had been called over. OKC Energy tomorrow.
TBH Chelis was just stealing money from LVL FO. So it´s good for them that he is out. Now, for Adu... I don't know...
Adu keeps coming up on lists. "Americans to have started in Premeira Liga", "Americans with as many Champions League games as Landon Donovan". He is used as a punch line and almost a bad fairy tale that is told about hyping young players. But until around 19-20, he was doing just fine. When he first comes back to MLS and has a good GC in 2011, it is basically the career of Feilhaber. He just doesn't go on to have more solid years in MLS and become a second Donovan or even a Feilhaber. The cautionary tale is always about hyping teenagers and how that can kill their career. But he came out of his teenage years just fine. He went to Europe, not everyone makes it. Came back to MLS, that is where he then goes off the rails.