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US National Team Players Face Tough Decisions as Transfer Window Opens

For many, ringing in the new year presents the opportunity to embrace a clean slate. Whatever went wrong over the past 365 days fades away as a new year and new opportunities come into focus. For professional soccer players, it's a metaphorical sentiment that can become quite literal. On Jan. 1, the international player...

Freddy Adu Taking Remnants of Once Promising Career to Germany

One-time American soccer savior Freddy Adu is now 21 years old, and he hasn't played regularly since leaving Real Salt Lake and MLS in the summer of 2007. Since then, he's appeared in about 30 first-team games for four different clubs. Nobody seems to want him. After being jettisoned by teams in Portugal, France and...

Young FC Dallas Duo Ready for the Big Show

At the end of the MLS season, FC Dallas midfielder Eric Alexander traveled to his parents' home in Portage, Mich. to enjoy the offseason. The 22-year-old had just capped off a successful rookie year with the Hoops, scoring two goals in 19 league appearances for the MLS Cup finalists, and he had every intention of relaxing...

Freddy Adu Says He'll Be Playing in Greece With Aris

Freddy Adu apparently has answered the questions about his immediate soccer future in a three-word tweet on Tuesday morning: "Aris it is!" So the journeyman attacker, whose difficulty in sticking with a European club has been part of a captivating slide from 14-year-old soccer savior to borderline afterthought, will spend...

Freddy Adu Fails Trial With Swiss Club

Freddy Adu's hapless pursuit of a European club to call home has hit yet another roadblock, this time in Switzerland, where FC Sion has announced that the 21-year-old American doesn't fit in with the team's plans. Adu, still under contract with Portugese power Benfica (which doesn't want him), went on trial at Sion this...

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05/31/12 US Open Cup roundup Source: MLS It was a grim night for many MLS sides in US Open Cup play, as seven of the 14 sides in action were knocked out by lower-league opposition at the first time of asking.
05/31/12 Cal FC upset Timbers 1-0 in Portland; Sounders roll... Source: MLS It was a grim night for many MLS sides in US Open Cup play, as seven of the 14 sides in action were knocked out by lower-league opposition at the first time of asking.
05/31/12 Sounders top Atlanta, 5-1; Portland in Extra Time vs.... Source: MLS While Tuesday saw the bulk of the action, with 14 games including seven upsets by lower-division teams, Wednesday night isn't exactly barren in US Open Cup play.
05/30/12 Adu gets 2, Union beats Rhinos 3-0 Source: East Oregonian - Pendleton OR Freddy Adu scored two goals, Josue Martinez added a goal and an assist and the Philadelphia Union advanced in the U.S. Open Cup with a 3-0 victory over the Rochester Rhinos on Tuesday night.
05/30/12 USOC Roundup: 7 MLS sides tumble in third-round action Source: MLS It was a grim night for many MLS sides in US Open Cup play, as seven of the 14 sides in action were knocked out by lower-league opposition at the first time of asking.

Background on freddy adu

Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Adu (born June 2, 1989) is a Ghanaian-born American soccer player who currently plays for Philadelphia Union in Major League Soccer.

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