The Lights are really making such a strong effort towards retaining their fan base ahead of 2019. Seems like they are going around to season ticket renewals to show appreciation. #LightsAboutVegas is underway!Stay tuned we’re coming to you, Viva Lights nation📍 pic.twitter.com/4ckPDJUxE9— Las Vegas Lights FC (@lvlightsfc) October 4, 2018 Also this from our movie guy... Damnnnnn! 🔥 🔥 https://t.co/v3QODcOVQh— @FreddyAdu (@FreddyAdu) October 5, 2018
18 lucky fans (....and counting!) have earned a free seat in 2019, thanks to the Crossbar Challenge. Who’s got next? 🧐 Renew now for your last chance to take the challenge at our home finale. https://t.co/KRfz9aXHvd— Las Vegas Lights FC (@lvlightsfc) October 5, 2018 They also have a cross-bar challenge for season ticket renewals. You get one shot per ticket during halftime for free season tickets if you hit the cross bar from the top of the area.
I like that this has stopped being a "Freddy Adu playing soccer" thread (boring, and almost never happens) and turned into a "Las Vegas Lights team news" thread (one of the most entertaining teams in lower division soccer). This is not sarcasm, I'm being totally serious. I have learned so much about random soccer teams from following Freddy Adu's adventures not playing for them!
Same here. Adu's trajectory can be summed up in that cheesy Catherine Aird's quote: "if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning."
Squad taking a pregame walk through the city before #SAvLV tonight! Tune into Instagram stories for a behind the scenes look at their trip 👀 pic.twitter.com/4I2F0e67tn— Las Vegas Lights FC (@lvlightsfc) October 6, 2018 No sign of Freddy in the traveling squad to San Antonio.
Freddy made the bench but did not play in Wednesday night’s crazy 5-2 win over Phoenix Rising. The Lights conclude their inaugural season tomorrow night in Sacramento.
Went off the rails when he refused to take a pay cut in Philly, started to hookah, and stupidly tried to go play on a Brazilian team. Those three things officially killed his career. It was all good until then. Age 14-23 were good, actually really good. 23-29 were pathetic. Time to hang up the cleats.
I was in Salvador a few months ago and had an uber driver who is a big Bahia fan. I asked him about Freddy and he had no idea who I was talking about.
I remember his major tv network tv debut on DC. Of course the game had as much hype as Pele's last game on the Cosmos. My dad, who was indifferent to soccer, but willing to watch the game, was put off more by they Adu hype than by his (to untrained eyes) lack of spectacular play.
Still 0-0 at 42’. Watching this on the Lights broadcast/betcast. Interesting as the commentary is half the game, 1/2 movement of the betting line on the game. Freddy is semi-involved, kind of.
There's no such thing as the end of the road. There will always be some club for whom the publicity boost from signing him outweighs all other considerations.
After I saw him in one of his first games with Tampa Bay, I predicted that would be his last season. Foot skills were there but no endurance, burst or sign of athleticism. Lo and behold, he found another team. Vegas is kind of fitting as it is a place where stars well past their prime can still make a living. Unfortunately, the help you get as an aging entertainer with make-up, cosmetic surgery, lighting, sound systems, etc., doesn’t apply to professional athletics. Anyway, I wouldn’t sign him but I wouldn’t count him out. Maybe this time he will get in shape for real!