Latest about Freddy Adu
NEW ISSUE: Liverpool’s Slot machine PLUS a day with Maradona Jr, finest football songs, faded wonderkids, John Toshack, FC United and Ray Parlour answers your questions!
MAGAZINE Get your hands on the latest issue of FourFourTwo magazine – available in print or on your device now!
Football wonderkids who crashed and burned
The following prodigies were tipped for superstardom but they all failed to live up to the early hype
Freddy Adu’s former team-mate pinpoints where things started to unravel for the USA wonderkid
"Freddy didn’t go further because he didn’t learn the values of hard work and failure," former DC United teammate, Ryan Nelsen, says
In the mag: Hey Jude Bellingham! Plus young players special, exclusive interviews with Jamal Musiala and Endrick, birth of J. League and Freddy Adu's fall
IN THE MAG Get your hands on the latest issue of FourFourTwo magazine – available in print or on iPad and iPhone – from Thursday 2 March
Freddy Adu: Cristiano Ronaldo is an amazing person - he offered to take me out to dinner
Manchester United offered a trial to American sensation Freddy Adu back when he was a teenager - and it was Cristiano Ronaldo who left a lasting impression on the player
10 schoolboy footballers who debuted in the men's game – and what happened to them
Lists Fernando Ovelar made headlines worldwide after scoring his first senior goal at the age of 14. But the Paraguayan is far from the first disgustingly young hopeful to make his mark...
