Hail cheaters, it's Brandon here. This is a quick little drop to introduce you all to a brand new original podcast series from our friends at Blue Wire. It's called American Prodigy, the Freddie A Do story. Stick around. I've got a little clip from the show to play after I'm done talking here. But what you need to know is Freddie Adieu is famous here in America for becoming the youngest athlete

to ever sign a professional contract in the U.S. when back in 2004, he joined the MLS at the

fresh young age of 14. Back then, Freddie was hailed as the player who would finally put

the states on the world soccer map.

And he was compared to athletes like LeBron James, Tiger Woods, other phenoms of the era.

And no one is better equipped to tell this story than Grant Wall,

America's leading soccer journalist who originally put Freddie Adieu on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

So an American prodigy through interviews with teammates, coaches, and even Freddie himself,

Grant is guiding you through the rise, the fall, and the potential reemergence of Freddie Adieu,

including some ugly truths about corporate marketing, race in sports. and honestly, the United States extremely checkered history of developing young soccer talent.

I cannot recommend this podcast enough, guys.

It's bingeable.

It's a seven-part series, and it'll quickly grab hold of anyone interested in how we perceive

gifted young sports prodigies,

especially those who never reach their potential. So there it is, American Prodigy,

the Freddie Adieu story. Listen to the entire series now. You can binge it wherever you get your

podcasts.

You had a kind of cool interaction with Zadahn at a celebrity game over in Europe? Yes. Mostly, though, it was Ronaldo, the goat striker. I don't care what anyone says.

Oh, Phenomeno is the goat striker. Yeah, it was a charity game in Germany. I was on Ronaldo's team,

actually. We played against Zidon's team at the time and we were all like in the same maca room and we were just joking around

and ronado and them they were just they were calling me like little pelle like they were calling me

feely they're like they were just clowning and make it fun like hey he looked just like pelle don't he

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