Freddy Addu – Football’s forgotten superstar

Remember Freddy Adu? Of course you do. In 2004, he was the 14-year-old who was seen as the future of the game in the United States and a potential new global star. The subject of gargantuan hype when he made his Major League Soccer bow in April of that year for DC United, Adu still holds records as the youngest player and goalscorer in the MLS’s short history and is also the youngest player to appear for the senior US team.

BBC Sport’s Chris Bevan takes a look on career of Freddy Addu in his blog.

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