-- A friend of mine, who like lives in Germany and stuff, like, he says, like, if Freddy signs with a German team, Kahn will retire. He'll be, like, outta there because Freddy, like, will make him look like he couldn't goalie his way out of a wet paper bag. -- Freddy can run the 100-yard dash in like 8.5 seconds or something. I seen him. It's, like, sick. Like, Freddy starts running and he looks those people on "The Munsters" when they freak out after seeing Herman Munster. Only he's really running that fast. -- One time Freddy was playing in a club tournament, and, like, his goalie sucked. So he says "You suck. I'm playing goalie!" And the goalie says "No, you suck. I'm playing goalie!" And this guy's like 75 pounds bigger than Freddy, but Freddy draws back his fist and clocks him. The goalie flies through the air, like wrestling and stuff. Only there's a problem, because Freddy's team is down a goal -- Freddy scored like 15 goals, but the goalie sucked so bad so they're losing -- and the fight has pushed into stoppage time. So, like, the goalie's out and -- check this out, brah -- Freddy picks the dude up WITH ONE ARM and takes the goalie shirt off with the other. Then he takes a goal kick and, so help me, puts it into the upper left corner to send the game into extra time. True story. -- The real reason Frank Rijkaard ended his playing career early was that Freddy got a tryout with Ajax when he was, like, six. Freddy nutmegs Frank a couple of times and because Freddy learned Dutch on the plane ride over from a Berlitz tape, he starts calling Frank out in front of Kluivert, Reiziger, and the DeBoers. Frank was, like, so played after that. A few years later, Frank's coaching the Netherlands against Italy in Euro 2000 and Freddy's in the stands because he's trying out with PSV. Frank sees Freddy in the stands and freaks out. Frank's team loses and he quits coaching. -- Freddy's, like, my best friend and stuff. Like I told him what he should name the first kid he has with the Brazilian model he's gonna marry: LeBron Almonte Adu. I told him that and he thought it was so cool that he's going to let me drive the custom-built Hummer he's gonna get. And he showed me what his first Serie A goal's gonna look like. Dude, like, he kicks it to the corner flag with such a wicked bend, it comes back straight at him, and he heads it like 30 yards into the upper left corner. It's really sweet. -- I think they should, like, just GIVE Freddy the World Cup already, because he's so good, like, last-number-in-the-world good, and what if he's playing so good at the World Cup and his teammates suck? I mean how fruit is that? It's just really weak. I mean, give it up for Freddy because he's the best of all times already!
And like when Herman Munster tried out for the Dodgers and hit that baseball a mile? Freddy can kick a ball twice as far as that maaaaaaan!
Treetaliano, how can you have Ameriblogger on your ignore list? He's bigsoccer's saviour. He gave us Freddy Adu clips, for God's sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-- And my dad and me, we go through Freddy's trash so's we can get stuff to sell on eBay. It's actually pretty cool because the trash isn't so messy. (It's like really, really weird -- Freddy's family doesn't throw food away. Hel-LO, Earth to Freddy's Family!!) Anyways, my dad's pretty old, like forty, and he says being excited about Freddy reminds him how he felt about U2 when he was in high school, cause right now it's this kinda small thing only cool people know about. He says you could go see U2 in the olden days and the singer would jump off the stage after the concert and actually talk to people and act like he was interested in what they were saying. Now U2's so big they play at the Super Bowl and stuff and my dad says it's so boring he doesn't even notice. So I tell Dad if he's trying to tell me I'm not going to care about Freddy someday because of his massive hugeness, I tell him no way, that would be incredibly gay. Like the gayest thing ever.
All goofing aside, there is some truth to the initial post in this thread -- the part about Ajax. I have friends in the Ajax system who tell me they want Freddy. They want to form a strike partnership of Freddy and Sonny Pike. Think of it: Your toddler will someday think of Freddy Adu and Sonny Pike as we think of Romario and Bebeto. You heard it here first.
Simple. He harassed the hell out of me and fidlerre asking for help with "his" clips, and then when i finally did it, spending 3 hours of my time to shut him up, he didnt even use them nor thank me for doing it. I don't think downloading an already available clip, then putting it on your site thyen posting the link and starting 7,000,000 threads about it qualifies as BS's savior. I had alread had the clips on my server which almost everyone knows by now is kept updated by fidlerre, who actually spends hours and hours ripping the clips from Tivo and Videotapes to make them available for us.
This thread is further proof that the Freddy Adu internet message board clique jokes are getting really tired and even less funny than before...
Now do you keep saying "like" after everything because it's a regular part of your vernacular, or are you just that big of a moron?
[SoccerScoutism] Bleh. It's a not-very-well-known fact that Brazil doesn't pick its best players, not by a long shot. Because of all the money involved, they won't pick any players from tiny obscure clubs in the interior of Brazil. It's a shame, because we've missed out on the talents of players like Spuriaçao, who could curl the ball so much that it would circle the wall three times whenever he took a free kick but refused to leave the amateur leagues because he had a phobia of cameras. Or Ersazinho, who never got out of the amateur leagues because he was so obsessed with trying to score the perfect goal. The latter once dribbled an entire opposing team four times consecutively even though they packed the box with defenders. The first time he turned back with the open net at his mercy because one of the defenders had managed to touch the ball before being beaten. The second time he stopped because he hadn't gotten an overhead flick just right. The third time he stopped because one of the defenders didn't fall for one of his ball fakes and almost took the ball off his feet. The fourth time was the most impressive - he even nutmegged the referee twice! - but alas, the twelfth man that the opposing team had snuck onto the pitch finally won the ball and cleared it as Ersazinho tried to set himself up for a bicycle kick. And neither of them was anywhere near Inigo, possibly the most talented player ever, whose career ended tragically as he ended up in prison for life for killing a six-fingered goalkeeper with a powerfully-struck free kick. Freddy has nothing on these guys. [/SoccerScoutism]
Dude, nothing's truly funny on the side of grown men and women breathlessly following every waking hour of an age-group athlete. If and when he's doing these miraculous things on the open-competition level, then I'll be down with you.
Herman was a defender on the '98 team, don't you remember? He started in the friendlies after making the squad. Then he taught Regis English and ...
Sonny Pike? Glad you asked. Sonny Pike at age 13 supposedly was the most dazzling young football talent the U.K had produced since George Best. He was the subject of a British series on child prodigies. I saw him on an edition of "Futbol Mundial" in '97 or so. (Damn, I miss that show. Can't get it on local cable anymore.) Anyway, as I understand it Sonny got into the Ajax youth side and was the first Brit to do so. The "Futbol Mundial" segment followed Sonny on his first unsuccessful try at getting into Ajax. Best part was when Sonny and his dad, a football-obsessed, darts-and-ale workingman's club type, caught Frank Rijkaard walking in and he signed an autograph for Sonny. Frank looked at Sonny and his dad and the camera with this someone-please-call-security expression. At the end, it showed Sonny and his family when the Ajax rejection letter came. As I recall, Sonny didn't cry, but his dad did. But then he apparently did get in later. So what's become of him since? Do an internet search with his name and you probably won't turn up any football club sites. My sources in England tell me Sonny's last athletic accomplishment was finishing tied for third, with an unidentified blonde, in the 2002 Pancake Race for Expectant Couples at Butlin's Holiday Camp in Skegness. He is mentioned briefly in a BBC online piece, "Too Much Too Young?" I'll link to below. You Freddyheads might want to skip it: There's a lot about burned out athletic prodigies like Andrea Jaeger, along with a mention of how the pressure to succeed ruined Sonny's parents' marriage by the time he was 14. Here's the link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/376548.stm There. Feel free to start Sonny Pike threads. I would, except I'm stuck with this yellow.
That's a silly article from the BBC. Their list of "wasted youth stars" include the Williams sisters and Capriotti. Those 3 women have dominated tennis for the past 3 years (when the article was written). And ANY gymnast is "burned out" by the time they're 18 because at 18 they are over-the-hill for international competition. 20 at the most. That's the nature of gymnastics. Figure Skating is the same way.
The BBC article is a few years old, and it's mostly about tennis players, but it does mention soccer, and not just the Sonny Pike stuff. My favorite part was about how Diego Maradona was taken to doctors when he was 12, who injected him with "secret drugs to build up his muscles." Of course, I don't put anything past a country that made thousands of its people "disappear" in the late 70s. Which brings me back to Freddy. I'm not saying our boy's chemically enhanced, but for a 13-year-old lad, he looks awfully 21. I'm hoping Freddy lives a happily-ever-after fairy tale, but all of this goes to show glory often has a steep price.
You are the first poster to question Freddy's age. By this I mean that no other person on BS, not on any of the countless threads on the topic - all devoid of the barest hint of evidence, containing indecisive terminology like looks older, seems older, I doubt, blah, blah, blah..., curiously touting such vague concepts as some form of backing for their claim - has ever mentioned doubts as to Adu's age. Regurgitation of baseless observations is normal on these boards. It must be resisted.
Actually I think Treetaliano was asking about that toddler you identified as his. It seems to have caught him by surprise.