4.8 • 614 Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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He was an American prodigy. The next Pelé. The savior of U.S. soccer. But he wasn’t even old enough to drive. In 2004, Freddy Adu joined MLS at 14 years old becoming the youngest pro athlete in America in 100 years. His story is a tale of talent, money, fame and futbol. Soccer journalist Grant Wahl retraces the legend of Freddy as he went from superstar to one of the biggest "what ifs," asking, what determines who "makes it," who "doesn't," and what does all of it say about us?
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0:00.0 | This FPL season has definitely been go, go, go, a nonstop hustle all the time. |
0:07.6 | Matches, deadlines, unexpected blank and double game weeks, on top of everything the real world has had in store. |
0:13.9 | Sometimes you need a moment to turn off and hit reset. |
0:16.9 | That's when you reach for Coors Light. It's made to chill. |
0:20.4 | For me personally, supporting Fulham during this last year has been a true roller coaster ride. |
0:25.0 | Honestly, when that Adama Troiori goal flew past Ariola and the 92nd minute of Game Week 31, the only thing that saved my mental state, the only thing that calmed my nerves, was cracking open at Coors Light. |
0:37.2 | There's only one beer out there |
0:38.4 | that's literally made to chill, and that's Coors' light. The mountains on the bottles and cans even |
0:42.9 | turn blue when your beer is cold. That way, you always know when it's time to chill. When you |
0:48.4 | need to hit reset, just open a Coors Light, it's mountain cold refreshment made to chill. |
0:53.7 | And listen, everyone, summer is pretty |
0:55.5 | much here. It's about to get hot in New York. An ice cold Coors Light is such a perfect way for me to beat |
1:01.7 | that summertime heat. Coors Light is the one I choose when I need to unwind. So when you want to hit |
1:07.8 | reset, reach for the beer that's made to chill. |
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1:16.5 | Coors Brewing Company, Golden, Colorado. |
1:18.6 | And as always, celebrate. |
1:24.2 | Hail Cheaters. |
1:25.3 | Hey, this is Brandon here with a quick programming note from our family at Blue Wire. Blue Wire has just introduced a new podcast that might be of great interest to you. It's called American Prodigy, the Freddie Adieu story. It's what you might call a limited series, right? It's going to tell you one story start to finish and just a handful of very |
1:45.4 | digestible episodes. And Freddie Adieu, if you don't know who this guy is, before Christian |
1:51.0 | Pulisic broke out in Europe, Freddie Adieu was the young talent in America who was meant to |
1:57.4 | explode soccer in the mainstream over here. |
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