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Ready For Freddy?
Filed under: Imported
The redoubtable Grant Wahl has a piece on 14-year-old soccer phenom Freddy Adu in this week's SI. (It's not available on-line.) Wahl deftly chronicles the insane marketing push that Adu has inspired ($1 million endorsement deal from Nike; filming Pepsi commercials with Pele), and what awaits him in the forthcoming MLS season:
Now that Adu has earned the confidence of his team, he can focus on a more imposing challenge: his opponents, many of them veterans earning five-figure salaries, who may resent his newfound wealth and attention. "I'm going to have a big X on my back now, because some of these guys have been in the league a long time, and here comes this 14-year-old kid making this amount of money," Adu says. "But I didn't think it was going to be easy when I made this decision, and I'm ready for it. There's going to be a lot of mouthing off at me and a lot of hacking. That's part of the game."
Adu will be on "60 Minutes" this Sunday. He makes his MLS debut next Saturday at 3 p.m. (CST) on ABC.
Posted by Paul Demko at March 27, 2004 1:03 PM
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