Four years ago, Freddy Adu was seemingly a lock to be on the 2010 World Cup team. He was going to team up with Landon Donovan in some way to boost the USA’s offense as the national team made its expected four-year improvement on the international stage.
This was all based on the fact he was 16 years old and playing with professionals. It wasn’t so long ago he was the future of American soccer.
But now, Adu has only an outside chance of even making the U.S. squad that goes to South Africa.
That begs the question: Whatever happened to Adu?
Since his move to Europe three years ago, which was supposed to jump-start his career out of Major League Soccer, he has bounced around benches in Portugal, France and now Greece, finding little playing time and making little impact.
Adu has scored twice for his Greek team Aris, his first two goals since moving to Europe.
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