Fredua Koranteng Adu
Name: Fredua Koranteng Adu
Nationality: US citizen
Date and Place of Birth: 2 June 1989 in Tema, Ghana (there are constant rumours that Freddy Adu is actually much older than he claims but these are so far completely unsubstantiated)
Playing Position: Attacking midfielder
Current Club:
Benfica (Portugal)
Previous Clubs:
2004 - 2006 - DC United (Major League Soccer) - 82 apps, 11 goals
2006 - 2007 - Real Salt Lake (Major League Soccer) - 11 appearances, 1 goal
International Career:
United States of America - 1 appearance, 0 goals
About Freddy Adu:
Freddy Adu currently plays his soccer at Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer but began his football career playing barefoot on the streets of his home town in Ghana. When he was eight years old his mother won an immigration lottery which saw Freddy and his family move to Washington DC in 1997 and he later began a US citizen in 2003.
At the tender age of 14 Freddy became the youngest professional athlete in modern American sports history and in the same year he made his professional debut in Major League Soccer for DC United.
Freddy Adu was called up to the US National senior soccer squad by coach Bruce Arena in January 2006 and on 22nd January 2006 he became the youngest player ever to compete for the United States national soccer squad when he made his debut in a friendly against Canada. His hopes of playing in the 2006 World Cup were dashed when Arena left him out of the final squad that was to travel to Germany.
Having recently been linked with a move to the English Premiership which could see the young man plying his trade with some of the best teams Europe has to offer, Adu and his advisers instead opted to leave Washington for the relative obscurity of Salt Lake City, Utah presumably to give the young man a chance to develop out of the intense glare of publicity that has so far plagued his footballing career.
Freddy Adu signed for Benfica in 2007 for $2 million.
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