Where is Freddy Adu? The Lonely Life of an Ex-Wonderkid

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How good was Freddy Adu actually? #GOAT
New video about one of the most talked about players we've seen over the 2000's in football. In this episode we take on Freddy Adu who attracted interest from Manchester United, Juventus, Inter Milan, Liverpool and Benfica at the start of his career.

[@iceman4660]

Unfortunately his mum allowed him to be sold to the MLS rather than a footballing academy. Too much, too easy. Nobody prepared him for the hard times that always occur in life.

[@ralphayiku9721]

Juve academy definitely would've been the right place to start for him.

[@jbo4547]

Can't blame his mom dude... she was a single mother and didn't exactly know the "best" way to have her boy start his career.

[@jbo4547]

@David Dave exactly, people forget a lot of these players' families are poor as hell

[@ebenabakah6822]

@@jbo4547 llliilklllllk

[@HelloThere-uh3ll]

Lots of kids fail in academies too. Freddy Adu was just older than they thought

[@nathanarcher2221]

They should have put him in an academy but he was used as a commercial.

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

100%

[@ballakick9080]

yep, it's the pressure the media on him in the US, they put him up high, and then they put him down low

[@ufotekere9391]

From the story, I see that dat wen he was young inter called for him, he would have gone into inter academy ( we have lots of good players similar to adu produce by inter academy, lik Mario balloteli, obafemi Martin's etc who were more successful)

[@mountaindew3201]

It’s his moms fault. AC Milan offered him a scholarship to study in their academy as well as football. His mom refused. Just imagine that

[@BlackGoddess4721]

​@@mountaindew3201that's how African parents like they control everything even your life. That's why they are far away from civilization. They killed their children football dreams in the house before they can even kick the ball.

[@evilkhamzat]

Growing up in the states with an immigrant back ground and a family that loved futbol, (which people made fun of me for). I don’t think people abroad understand how crazy the hype was for Adu in the late 90s. The commercials the interviews it was on mother level. Makes me think sometimes what would have happened if he did turn out to be successful. Thankfully nowadays futbol here in the states has what I call the Adu effect. People still hype up young talented players but the asterisk “remember Freddy Adu” is always attached which tampers expectations.

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Yeah, must have been crazy

[@misterpete8001]

I'm from England and I remember hearing about adu. He was basically supposed to be like Messi . We were surprised how crap he was in Europe

[@luisitoviii1090]

Late 90?!? Wow! They were already hyping him up when he was 9?! Damn, that was child abuse.

[@WALDENSOFTWARE]

I didn't have cable so I didn't see any interviews, but I remember US jerseys in the stores had ADU on the back and I thought who tf is that?? Where's the McBride and Donovan jerseys?

[@jamesodriscoll6748]

I hope his mother is proud of denying her son his dream. He would of been another prospect in England or across Europe. Instead becoming a celebrity in the USA at a young age.

[@gabkoost]

Freddy Adu impact on his generation is immense. Millions and millions have achieved great success in Championship Manager thanks to him. Believe it or not, this game was so popular back then that most of the hype who ended up ruining his career came from the Wonderkid insane ratings he had at age 14 in the game. Literally the entire world of football knew about him as the game came out and this is where everything started. I firmly believe that without the game his popularity would be minor and he would have had much more time to develop.

[@matafaka2060]

its almost a similar story as hachim mastour

[@chrisbhoy100]

Footballing people need to stop this ridiculous thing in calling young players the next Pele, Messi, Ronaldo ete etc. This puts HUGE pressure on these boys, Adu didn't need this. He should have been allowed to develop as a human and as a footballer. Putting him up as the saviour of American football also was wrong. Bouncing from club to club didn't help either, maybe if the Man U trial worked out and working under Sir Alex that might have made him as a man and as a foootballer.

[@jupiteryandje8678]

True

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Yeah, it's so uneccesary and breaks players mentally from the get go

[@tfmkhonza5084]

True that disgust me most

[@Chez114]

To be fair, it's the American marketers who put pressure on kids. In Europe, young players are protected from this kind of attention. European clubs are allowed to buy young players which gives them time to mentally and technically improve while completing their education. In the US, minors can't pursue a contract into a youth academy and so not only fall behind the rest of European clubs in cultivating talent, but they aren't sheltered from the pressure of being marketed as "the next Pele"

[@uraggro-shub1016]

It's up to the player to have the temperance and professionalism to ignore the hype. Most players pray for that kind of hype to help them get noticed.

[@matthewcardoza2595]

His mother helped destroy his career by not sending him to an academy.

[@bullymaguire9100]

True

[@4real4real43]

Same thing i said!

[@rubamann]

He also was destroyed by people who told him that he was good enough at 16. There should've been someone who has to tell you that you are not what you think you are yet.

[@HH-wd2cn]

This i totally agree with messed his life up she didn't understand football

[@thecongo8505]

Do they have soccer academy in the US?

[@ngazediwahotep7740]

I was with him a couple of times in night clubs in Lisbon when he played at Benfica. Good guy, but he was in the nights often, in EU and top fotbal that life is not compatible with the other.

[@gelo6573]

Freddy is a great guy, in the thumbnail you'll see players behind him. He helps coach my team next level.

[@ook6871]

I blame his mum, a lot of parents take emotional decisions and not logical ones

[@4real4real43]

Exactly!

[@Dah2291]

Blabla . Stop judging

[@Saxyct]

@@Dah2291 it's not judging, it's what happened. she was afraid to let him go at his young age, but this decision irreparably changed his future.

[@diha2271]

Yeah. Messi's parents send him across the ocean at age of 12. Look what happened...

[@kenmapeza8732]

Nobody thought of developing his talent to it's full potential,but rather saw the commercial and marketing value in him,sad story.

[@deleqtronica8733]

Not really, that’s what football academies are for and even though they offered a shitload of cash his mom turned it down. She might as well of robbed him of his future.

[@uoohknk6881]

@@deleqtronica8733 He did wonders to promote football in the US

[@AAb-xy6et]

When he was a teen he looked like a 25 year old small guy, when he's 29 he looks like a 40 year old small men. From what I've seen he wasn't anything special, I said that when he was young and I still say it. Around 13:29 you can see him during a youth world cup in The Netherlands watching a random Dutch kid playing football and Freddy Adu looking stunned and amazed about things that Dutch kids think are very normal. From that moment I knew Freddy Adu wasn't anything special. Around 15:05 you can see another Dutch kid kicking a ball. Long story short, Freddy was just an American hypejob and nothing else.

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

If you haven't played FM 2006, you missed out on what Adu COULD have been.

[@lazytymez]

i played fifa 2005 and would always try to buy Adu for my New Club as a manager

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

@@lazytymez based on the hype back then, all football games beefed him up like crazy :D Wonderkid, high stats, all the bells and whistles.

[@thetruthsayer8347]

It’s the us media that hyped him. They used him to promote the MLS until his 15 seconds of fame ran out.

[@jordandivashanpillay8602]

No word of lie 😂

[@brexistentialism7628]

I did play FM 2006 and remember his name from that game

[@apegraham9819]

i remember his name was on all radio stations in Ghana during sports programmes and how they wanted the federation to tie him for the national team.

[@MisfitsJOE]

In the big leagues he was just another average player like thousands of others. I'm a Benfica fan and that showed from the 1st time I watched him play. To be a soccer star in the USA is quite different from beeing a star in Europe, the quality level is incomparable.

[@positivking9329]

If he left for inter when he was young he would have gotten better ,staying home killed his career in my humble opinion

[@TheTranceCartel]

This is not entirely true, as he actually did really well in Benfica but the manager and players said he was an egotistical prima donna who was impossible to work with, so they dropped him. The clueless American media did hype him up endlessly though

[@luisforges7360]

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[@luisforges7360]

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[@RvdW22]

He was the best player in the youth tournament on a lesser team… it’s not golf, it’s a team sport. Put him in the Ajax academy at 8 and this isn’t a video…

[@FOCUSTY3]

As a Ghanaian 🇬🇭 it’s sad to see poor decisions taken by most of our parents especially our mothers. This is still happening in Ghana 🇬🇭. I don’t know what’s actually wrong with such parents. We call this witchcraft here.

[@drybreath]

His balls were tied up by his mom because what the dad did,the so call don't be like your daddy shit..

[@cavaleer]

LOL. How in the hell do you try to blame his mama? He was hyped only because he was in America at a time when soccer was still undeveloped. here. Ultimately he didn't have the goods. "Put up or shut up", as we say. He had a decade of opportunity after opportunity to prove he had the goods., and he failed. In America we call that, "It is what it is" and "Nothing to look at but the mirror". To me as a casual soccer observer he clearly wasn't big, fast, agile or powerful enough to compete against grown men. Youth prodigies happen like that all the time in football, American football. Nothing new.

[@andreasoneill7851]

@@cavaleer don’t compare the football 2022 with 01/02 There was different level of football mate !

[@juniorm641]

African Parents are greedy

[@juniorm641]

@@cavaleer he would have improved if he went to Europe young

[@randisallah]

I understand he loves his Mother dearly, but I do wonder if at some point in life he looks back and wonders what might have happened had he joined Inter Milan as a boy. But on the other hand, one could say that he never made the best of the hand he was dealt. And by that I mean that there are plenty of examples of players just in this country who have, even without going to an academy as a child, come up through the leagues and gone on to have decent and even title winning careers. Granted that takes a hell of a lot of luck, but it's not like he wasn't given chances. What could have been......

[@cocaburra]

He was in the same team as di maria and aimar at Benfica. Had he persevered and worked hard, he may have achieved something even if he didn't reach their levels.

[@xhtownx1524]

I think he would’ve had a successful career. Inter academy at that time was top 3 best in the world. They would shaped him to become a successful futballer.

[@oluwafemiajose948]

Yup. Mummy should have let him go to Inter as a kid. They would have developed him in ways the MLS couldn’t. Looking at the clips in this video the boy had great skills and technique but it’s obvious what killed his career was his work ethic and lack football sense when he actually steps on the pitch for a real game. These are things he could have learnt at the Inter Milan academy or any other major European club academy for that matter but mummy made him stay back in the US where the ridiculous media hype completely consumed and disoriented him. She really messed him up.

[@oluwafemiajose948]

What took him to Benefica was the hype. He wasn’t a properly developed player like Di Maria and others and that’s why he flopped. A player like Adu needed to go through an academy.

[@caci111]

I dont care if lots of people saying Adu didnt achieve his goals or careers. in the end as long as he's happy & enjoying life that is all that matters. live ur life to the fullest & dont forget to b happy.

[@Krude-rv9vn]

Exactly, he got paid to play professional football. That's what many people dream of but never make it. It wasn't the greatest career but its still a career that paid well and he met some great players and travelled the world too

[@SwordOfS]

You are making your channel more interesting with every video you upload. Well done !

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Thanks so much, means a lot

[@benjamindillard2391]

I agree with him. Keep the videos coming.

[@freddyadu7153]

I watched the whole video and I really enjoyed it. I know I messed up in my soccer/football career and now I'm focusing on my future.

[@2020Dreamlife]

We love you Freddy

[@ChandlerTingle]

Serie A’s Most Underrated Striker: Antonio Di Natale

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Legend, video eventually for sure

[@kizmutyaba4965]

Harsh

[@theghostofbabanovac7069]

Beppe Signori ?!

[@Saxyct]

He was not really underrated, he played for good teams and for the national team as well, he was good but not impressive. The true underrated player in Serie A was Hubner, who most people don't even know and who was "discovered" way too late, when he was close to retire...

[@Saxyct]

@O.G FORT I mean he still played many years in Serie A, not in a minor team in second or third division...he has also played for the national team, therefore one cannot really call him underrated.

[@abd-bm3cd]

Poor guy. I really feel for and sympathize with him. Ages 14-21 are crucial development years that he unfortunately wasted in the MLS. He was phenomenal at 14-16, the level of competition/being surrounded by better and better elite players and coaches would have elevated him. Skill-wise, tactical knowledge and (sport) psychological development. Imagine if a young teenage Adu was developed at Ajax, La Masia etc.

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Yeah, La Masia would have made him a superstar easily

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

Damn, his mom definitely went crazy on him with Inter... Yeah your husband left you, but clinging to your son because of that is mental...

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Interesting perspective not gonna lie. I think maybe it's just cultural dissonance, with them being Americans and all

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT we cant know for sure, but considering the contract never said anything about him leaving America, strongly points towards a really unhealthy irrational reaction from that woman... Won't be the first time. Compare her with Cristiano's mom. Got married to a trash man, but still made the best out of her bad decision and let Cristiano be.

[@biskys6718]

@@AleksandarIvanov69 UnfortunatelyI think its a sort of cultural toxicity / overprotectiveness thats somewhat prevelant from African mothers. It's definitely an act of love but one that's also harmful as a result

[@daisypaul]

Football agents destroyed this lad.He needed an agent wetting the right beaks of power.

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

True

[@ThriftyCHNR]

He should have gone with Inter and stayed for a while. That was the first deadly mistake. Second was not staying at Benfica. This is not actually a rare case. He just had the most hype.

[@monasteryintibet]

I gotta be honest I always kept waiting that one day Adu’s day would come. I still have his jersey! but atlast that day never came .

[@entreguesaosbichos]

You only had to look at his ace in order to see why he never made it as pro... The problem with adu is the same with many players from africa: his alledged age is way bellow his real age. People have to keep in mind that we are talking about the 3rd world and warzones. I'm from portugal and we have a lot of african players because of our ex colonies. When i used to play football, i met several of those cases (it was frequent to face opponents with full thick beards when i was 13 or 14. you could cleraly see they were adults and not children but their officisl documents would say otherwise). Most of our ex colonies were at war until very recentlly and in many cases their original documentation and birth records had been destroyed, which meant that when arriving in portugal they could claim to be whoever they wanted and they could cheat on their age. It makes a big difference in youth teams, having to play against a grown up man but that difference and advantage dissipates when everybody on the pitch is an adult. Thta's why he never made it in pro football. I remeber that when he was at benfica and got injured, the surgeon who operated on him said he had the bone structure and joints of a 30 year old man, even though he was 18 or 19 at the time (he had the bone structure of a 30 year old man because that was his real age...)

[@Mcnamara2]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@johnsuperhist5219]

Naah you hating atmost Maybe a 2 year ahead

[@patrickmoan4086]

As always, well done.

[@rafathalam5245]

One of the best researched videos 👍

[@stevenattias1803]

Being a New Yorker, I remember him being interviewed on New York sports radio when he was drafted into MLS. I had hoped he would become a star.

[@-3720-]

Go check out Fábio Paim's story, even better promise (said to be way better than CR7 by himself). Went to Chelsea with 16yo and already earning good moneey for a teen. His bad habits ended up breaking up his career even before really started.

[@nask0]

Which reminds me of Adrian Mutu in Chelsea

[@entreguesaosbichos]

Paim wasnt 16 when he moved to chelsea. He was already 21 and he didnt earn that much, since he was hired for the reserve squad. Paim did his entire formation in sporting and only left as an adult. But you are right abou him earning too much when he was only 16. With 16 years old and playing for the youth squad, paim earned more than many players on the main team.

[@-3720-]

@@entreguesaosbichos true must've been high when i wrote the atrocity above x)

[@misterpete8001]

He was basically a grown man pretending to be a child. He's achieved nothing in football but he's made good money and he can chill now and enjoy it

[@leslieasiedu7047]

😂😂😂😂😂 You're right, I'm from Ghana too but he looked way too old for his age.

[@Mark-ib2st]

Your channel is really interesting and videos are well made, keep it up

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Thanks!

[@adejumobabafemi2849]

Adu you forgot one Key element in your career. Your mother's happiness. Did you confirm if she was happy with your move! You could have been a great player even in the United States without moving out. The future is still great for you. Put your house in order, get your coaching license and what you couldn't achieve as a player with the United States awaits you as a Coach!

[@ryanwilliams4223]

Adu you forgot one Key element in your career. Your mother's happiness. Did you confirm if she was happy with your move! You could have been a great player even in the United States without moving out. The future is still great for you. Put your house in order, get your coaching license and what you couldn't achieve as a player with the United States awaits you as a Coach!

[@juniorm641]

@@ryanwilliams4223 I'll make sure he receives the massage

[@Cj-dt5dx]

never knew about this footballer...great video

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Thanks!

[@lyrazilvertong]

I solved the puzzle look :D :f Adu was indeed 14 when he made his MLS debut in 2004 (and became the youngest pro athlete in a U.S. team sport in more than a century), he would hit a major growth spurt in his midteens. And if he was that good as a true 14-year-old, his natural arc of improvement in his late teens would propel him into the elite of global soccer. Neither happened. A Sports Illustrated story from 2003, when Adu was 13, says he was 5-feet-8, 140 pounds. His current size at age 20 as listed on U.S. Soccer’s Web site: 5-8, 140. yeah right 7 years later he didnt grow 1 inch or anything is impossible if messi grow and he had a disease the guy is a fraud made millions because he and his mother decided to change his age. also I look now at the pictures when he was 14 he looks 21 to me explains why he didnt grow lol

[@mawuli7]

Compared to what others are doing now for a living he’s a very smart man!✊🏾✊🏾

[@bojanbugarski]

One of the best prospects in Football manager 05/06

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Not always the most accurate clearly

[@benwiseman3051]

13 year old adu would be excellent if you trained him properly

[@ColdNamikaze]

As a Ghanaian who loves football, I won’t go down this path of being used and squeezed for every little penny. I’ll become a legend, better than even abedi Pele

[@TaiwoA.A.Ademiluyi]

I hate it when I hear how someone's father left them. I'm grateful to God that I had both my parents whilst growing up. Maybe Adu wouldn't have signed for so many clubs if his dad had stook around.

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Yeah it's tough

[@TaiwoA.A.Ademiluyi]

@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT Very tough. I just hope and pray that ALL marriages will endure till death do them apart because a child needs mum and dad.

[@davidmuiru2235]

Not that i'm disapproving you but there is always more to it. I have two kids; different mothers and i'm honestly not part of their lives. It hurts but life happens.

[@gamej7946]

On point. You need both parents to battle with ideas.

[@mawuli7]

@@gamej7946 not really.. If my dad wasn’t away he’d get us all ruined.. depends on the family

[@edwardheart8482]

Freddy problem was at the youth level he was much older than the other kids; when he got older he met his age mates and fell apart and couldn’t keep up

[@princeetu8831]

👌👌👌

[@4real4real43]

His mother was his downfall, he should have allowed inter!

[@asarebediako6713]

How can you even lie this way through your teeth! Disgrace !

[@PatinoCarlos]

Adu at 29 looks 41. I dont think he was 14 when he made his pro debut

[@striker1810]

I suspect if he went to inter he would have been more likely to succeed. Better talent around him and he wouldn’t have been in the spot light as much in Italy

[@dmoney668]

Give him sum respect. He didn't have anything like the academy is growing up that are there now

[@ballakick9080]

you notice nobody mention anything about London Donavon! but they all way jump on Freddy Adu, LD didn't do that well in Europe either is late in his career him went back in Europe on a loan spell with Everton where sorta did ok, but at the peak of his career, he wants to the Bundesliga where struggle and often time on the bench not even starting, but my thing is that they always talk about Freddy situation like he's only player that struggle in Europe I start to wonder if it's because he's black its a lot of elements to his situation man especially how they deal with his situation, I think Freddy just want to be professional play football cause its thing he enjoyed doing, but the media put this expectation on him at such a young age, and the media still that up this day ..

[@mteokay1246]

@@ballakick9080 landon wasn't a young star like Adu. And Landon was actually a US star player for the national team ... he went to Europe already established as a player for the US team. So you can't compare the 2.

[@kevins5166]

He wasn’t really 16 years old, but way older.

[@sociallymediocre3711]

Adu be like that sometimes

[@ApocalypticEdits]

Lol

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

I'm tremendously proud of you for that joke Ps: first comment as well ahah

[@sociallymediocre3711]

@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT Thanks lol I love your channel keep up the great videos!

[@gmain1977]

They used him to promote the USA, comparing him to Pele gave him preasure

[@SriRam-fp1kt]

Please do something on Titus James from Malaysia. So so prodigious like Freddy Adu, but went off the grid. That would be so inspirational for football mad South East Asians.

[@ballakick9080]

I hope you the London Donvaon video too and do it very accurate as how u do feddy Adu vid

[@fmac6441]

Going to Benfica was a good decision, but in hindsight it will be better for him to stay in the US. If possible make a video about Landon Donovan, in the few games I've seen he was a good player.

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Yeah Donovan is interesting. Noted

[@justynssagan6156]

His mother and himself are the ones to blame facts 💯

[@tonyarana3847]

He was all hype!!

[@justynssagan6156]

His dream did come true he played football this is why you can talk about him think about the people you can't talk about their dreams didn't come true you're getting it twisted 💯

[@AndyWardinho]

no footballer with that talent could fulfil his dreams with that career, that's just the way it is

[@justynssagan6156]

@@AndyWardinho ya clueless ya fool 🤣

[@justynssagan6156]

@@AndyWardinho ya need help asap chump 🍼💯

[@AndyWardinho]

@@justynssagan6156 just saying.. I am sure he is happy he could provide for his mum, but I wouldn't say he fulfilled his dream... you don't work that hard at a sport just and know people you think you could be a legend of the game and just decide you don't want it

[@WillMiall]

Such a shame how his career ended up. The hype was huge around Adu, I was convinced he'd go on to be an American great when Fergie said he'd sign him up if he was ready at 18. A cautionary tale indeed. Great video mate

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Thanks!

[@ditocerto]

The man is still playing and making half a million per year.

[@allenge]

Sounds like he wasn't a serious guy to put in work when it came down to it. He wanted to benefit and Mulla rolling in without effort. It is just sad.

[@stoicadanielcatalin3412]

Your videos are awesome and addictive :) Can you please make one about Steven Gerrard? 🙏

[@thebeatnumber]

Slippy G?

[@stoicadanielcatalin3412]

@@thebeatnumber Yeah, that was the defining moment of his career 🤦‍♂️ Grow up!

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Dude you're in so much luck, next Saturday ahah

[@stoicadanielcatalin3412]

@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT Awesome! Can't wait! 😁

[@ZolaMagic25]

Do one about Demba Ba

[@danielsantino]

Least he had a go, rather fail trying than just not trying at all

[@adesperatelylonelysir7779]

To be fair considering he’s the son of a hard-working immigrant single mother things worked out pretty well. He never lived up to the hype he was given (and let’s face it he probably wasn’t that good in the first place) but still played professional football until the age of 31! Not to mention having a marketable name which can help him support his family. All in all it’s the media’s fault.

[@olurotimiadepitan5087]

Poor boy. I just hope that he is managing his life now that he is an adult.

[@keanuxxx4582]

A vídeo on Alexis Sánchez would be nice :D

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Peak Sanchez 😍

[@keanuxxx4582]

@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT Yeah man what a beast xD

[@khomotsokowane5309]

Buddy please do a video on either Steven Pienaar or Benny Mcharty 🇿🇦

[@addyfure9692]

Let’s keep it real , this guy was just hype , was rejected everywhere and didn’t even impress on amateur level .

[@ADE-of-LAGOS]

Looking at his body language, he doesn't appear he could be an hardworking player.

[@ubachiuchendu5385]

He was a kid

[@bonanzatime]

I always wondered what happened to him. I hope the rest of his life goes well. He seemed like a good kid..

[@sandrofilipe5038]

In FM at the time of his move to Benfica he was one of the best wonderkids...but in real life he didn't have the mental structure to be a profissional.It's a perfect example of wrong choices when having everything to be star,not all his fault,he was fed to much greatness at young age and skiped alot of steps of becoming professional,mentally he just couldn't cope with it.A shame...

[@ballakick9080]

He's not even a wonderkid they tag with that name! the dude just wanna play to help him parent and the, the media take turn in into some elses they put all this expectation on him .. its crazy

[@mikemor75]

I think he is older than his age.

[@marcusee7186]

I feel sorry for him to be honest

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Yeah same

[@jamespryor7358]

How many 14 year olds living under the same circumstances as Freddy would not have seized the opportunity to help his family? I commend him for making the best decision he could at that time. I think it's safe to say that some older players, coaches, and ect were jealous of his quick rise to stardom and may have made it their business to not assist with his development.

[@robfut9954]

Not an issue of being pushed forward too soon. Was an issue of a fairly small sized player who didn’t get the right coach to push him to lift and train to maximize his frame. Very simple

[@mahendrachettri6572]

I still remember...

[@wotizit2937]

He was much older than he said he was in his hey day.

[@riverplate0101]

I remember seeing an interview where he stated he was better than DiMaria. Again, DiMaria. Are you fucking kidding me? Adu is the Charlie Zelenoff of soccer.

[@stain4128]

He said he had a better benfica season not better overall

[@riverplate0101]

@@stain4128 Not in that interview I saw.

[@mycaribeat]

He was 20 year old when 15

[@Ohaechesi]

Did he retire? If I was him I'd try going to the Indian super league, middle east or Asia. He might be given a chance more over there, than in Europe

[@ditocerto]

He is still playing. Not retired at all.

[@Mntungwa77]

Football is a game that requires mental strength and lots of focus

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

indeed

[@michal2135]

he almost joined my beloved team Sandecja Nowy Sącz

[@ns.4148]

The people who thought this kid was God's precious gift to America's football ( soccer,) must have never seen a game before. His mother, a marketing agent, never marketed another athlete. (name them if I am wrong please.) Simply putting it, Freddy Sdu was the counterfeit product of a telemarketer.

[@garryarganis5801]

such a sad story, but i also cant help but think coach : you are fired. Adu : the coach fired me because the president forced him. coach : no me and the president agree we wanted to fire you because you are a joke. damn thats really hard, hopefully he got enough money to live the rest of his life without need of work.

[@zudarzahnshow5759]

Do a video on How Good was Socrates o doctor

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Really need that

[@Roman-od3iy]

Teams jumped on the bandwagon acting like he wasn't good enough. I saw him play several times and he was as good as the other players. What happened to him was unfair.

[@richardsmith9615]

cm03/04, Adu and Rungratsamee used to turn into ballers. They were crazy

[@princejunior5753]

O.T Genesis was Football player before rapper i didn't know that

[@HaalandViking]

He did good, made some money, travelled the world. Most never get this far. Most never play after age 18. He’s playing pro at age 16. Only one in a 100 million become a super star. He should have stayed in the USA and one team instead of going Europe. So now he can coach which is a great career too. Key is to be happy in what you do, content, always play at teams where you are above there level, save money and invest in real estate, don’t waste money. 2 million wp years ago is enough to live on forever if careful.

[@muhammedfaiz331]

Football Manager & Championship Manager Cult legend

[@LifeIsAGameClips]

If he went to Inter he would have actually played a lot in the pros tbh.

[@robbiebalboa]

It was his over demanding mind set. A lot of team mates and coaches found it annoying and helped no one. The fact a 15 year old could score goals in any top flight is actually insane. For some reason he had delusions to walk in as if he was going to dominate like A peak Pele straight away. His Early days at MLS really affected it.

[@austinashogbon8175]

He wasn't really 15. He was 21 years old at least.

[@carson3811]

He was actually 18 saying he was 14 hit his peak years in the MLS was older than all the kids Ghana birth certificate change.. for him to get a education

[@brightwelbeckodoi6186]

Thanks to his mom l hope she will be happy now

[@marynooss69]

Typical Ghanaian comment lol. She'll be shy rough

[@JuniorLopesjr]

Why are you guys just mad because he was good at dribbling and he was the next pele I don’t know why you guys hate him so much he was a good ass player you don’t know he might come back he’s still only in his 30s s and I hope this time if he does he goes to the Premier league and proves all of you wrong

[@ADAJ3KINGANGEL]

90 dribbling 75 pace 3 finishing/composure

[@alienfpv]

What did you say at 9:10 ?

[@45askel3]

It’s so messed up, seems every time adu takes a step forward it’s like ten steps back.

[@markkendall6144]

It was all his mum's fault. If she to let him go to inter Milan things would have been different. They would have taught him from a young age how to act how to train, how to conduct himself as a higher level of football. Even with him staying in the States they would have done this and things would have been different

[@bcpac]

The marketers and MLS made money off the hype not FA.

[@Mrmhibbert]

I think he has always lied about his age... I know there were question marks about him. But look at him these days... He looks a lot older than his age

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Idk maybe it's just coincidence

[@JJ-re4qk]

Maybe stress? But I’m kind of convinced too. In his old videos, he didn’t even look like an actual child, more like a really small adult.

[@lyrazilvertong]

I think the same lots of african players do this but he also looks a lot older there is something about him

[@Mrmhibbert]

@@lyrazilvertong yes... I remember him having a trail with Manchester United and some of the canteen staff at the training ground saying he was very mature for his age

[@lyrazilvertong]

@@Mrmhibbert If Adu was indeed 14 when he made his MLS debut in 2004 (and became the youngest pro athlete in a U.S. team sport in more than a century), he would hit a major growth spurt in his midteens. And if he was that good as a true 14-year-old, his natural arc of improvement in his late teens would propel him into the elite of global soccer. Neither happened. A Sports Illustrated story from 2003, when Adu was 13, says he was 5-feet-8, 140 pounds. His current size at age 20 as listed on U.S. Soccer’s Web site: 5-8, 140. yeah right 6 years later he didnt grow 1 inch or anything is impossible if messi grow and he had a disease the guy is a fraud made millions because he and his mother decided to change his age. also I look now at the pictures when he was 14 he looks 21 to me explains why he didnt grow lol

[@muhammedgamal5871]

This was sad in a deep way, i felt like we are similar, i felt his feeling

[@Wiseking200k]

Things would have gone differently if his mum had allowed the inter move

[@wagabira]

Gosh this guy messed up his career big time , what a shame 😕 😞. I hope I manage to save some money 💰

[@michaelikoro7305]

Wow

[@dandan3521]

the fate of a footballer is always at the mercy of a club manager

[@sifisomathabela6242]

I blame his mother about the Inter Move

[@jasonf2126]

Why didn’t you explore the idea he possibly isn’t the age he says he is…which is probably the culprit of all his problems.

[@checkcheck2125]

evidence

[@DailyDoseOfFootballYT]

Hadn't heard much about it, interesting tho, definetely should have

[@ditocerto]

African youth always being accused of lying about their age. Such pathetic and racist behaviour.

[@checkcheck2125]

What are logical and rational reasons for thinking such a thing?

[@ognz3571]

@@ditocerto his age was verifiable, he came in through a visa lottery remember?? The government knows his age