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He never had to. Things always came easy. That would be Adu's undoing. Against better competition, he foundered. He scored 15 goals in 16 games for the U. At that time, there was nobody like him. His club career ran a similar course. There were 11 goals to celebrate for D. United from to But since then, Adu has scored a total of 17 times. That's 17 goals over the past 13 years , playing across various levels in Europe, Asia, South America and the United States.
As a kid, he'd get that many goals in a weekend. Adu was an attacking midfielder and occasionally a winger, not a striker. But he considered himself a finisher, not a creator. When he wasn't scoring, he wasn't doing much of anything. Just keep giving it to me. I'm going to give it to some other guy. Everywhere he went, Adu was his usual easygoing self. He made friends, not enemies. But that sense of entitlement undermined him in locker room after locker room. Since , only two of the 13 teams he played for brought Adu back for a second season.
It wasn't all his fault. American soccer was still seeking its first international star. Adu happened to be anointed. At the same time, the idea of a year-old playing in a top league against adults captured the imagination of the broader public.
You're amazing. You got it,'" Wynalda said. His D. U team. He believed what he was reading. He believed he was worth all the money he was being paid. Adu left Salt Lake in after Benfica recruited him. But he wasn't yet good enough to play at Europe's highest level, so he was loaned out to AS Monaco, which wanted him mostly because his fame had spread. He barely played there, either. That fall, he went to Portugal to find stability. He landed at Belenenses, which was in the midst of relegation and the hiring and firing of 10 different managers over three years.
Finding a place for the young American was the least of the club's problems. He had another stint in MLS, two full seasons in Philadelphia. Then he drifted to and from five teams in four countries. He hadn't played in a year when Las Vegas made contact. The Lights play in a minor league baseball park a few miles from the Strip. Pitcher's mounds remain along the sidelines. It's Las Vegas but feels more like Albuquerque. Under the guidance of Jose Luis Sanchez Sola, the former Mexican League manager known as "Chelis," last year's team employed a pressing, high-energy style.
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But strangely enough, shock quickly turned to relief. It was a relief to find out, to finally know, after basically a year of more questions and no answers.
My mom is a boss. She works two jobs: one as a part-time Realtor for Keller Williams, and she also works at SEEC, an organization that helps displaced people find jobs. Chris Odoi-Atsem left works with kids at a Soccer for the Future event. United drafted the defender 12th overall in He lives in Ghana with my father and jumped at the opportunity to be by my side.
Steven owns a business in Ghana, and so does my father. Just get your health straight. I tell people all the time that that was the hardest part of this whole ordeal. Not the eight rounds and four months of chemotherapy. Not hearing the doctor say that I had a 7.
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