By AARON CRANFORD
After months of searching for a new home, Freddy Adu has signed with Finnish top division side Kuopion Palloseura.
The Finnish club announced on Saturday that Freddy Adu inked a one-year deal. The club will be the 11th of Adu’s career. The 25-year-old will join fellow American and former New England Revolution defender Stephen McCarthy, who also signed with KuPS this year.
In February, Adu was reportedly close to signing a deal with an unknown team in Sweden’s Allsvenskan, but those talks fell through.
What do you think of Adu’s latest move? How will the midfielder fare with KuPS?
Share your thoughts below.
Would be way more interesting if he and Haji were both going to Cosmos
I can’t wait to read the Freddy Adu autobiography.
I don’t think any of us hate him, we just realize he’s pretty much a waste of time and money. Dunno why any team even bothers with this dope.
Because he’s capable of this
This isn’t even funny any more.
I don’t get all the hate for this guy. It seems so personal and psychological. How many of your girlfriends has he slept with anyway?
Everyone’s and their mothers
Is this league better than the sand lot amateur leagues in southern california?
is that actually a question or are you just looking for some sense of approval here?
The Imperative Voice said:
“Since the violent murder of his Mr. 10% hasn’t been in the news I assume all this craziness has some rationale he accepts if not directs.”
OK I’ve officially bitten. What the heck are you talking about here?
Mr 10% is the agent.
Should have signed with GIF Sundsvall in the Allsvenskan.
These comments and the fact he is still getting attention in the media for signing a contract in a lower level Euro first division is the reason he doesn’t come back to the US. Why didn’t Stephen McCarthy’s signing with this club get a front page article? …because he isn’t Freddy Adu. I don’t blame him; I wouldn’t want to play here either.
+1
All this birth certificate crap and the hate from his “fans” is disgusting.
If anything these people should be hatting on US soccer and MLS for the insane amount of media hype they projected onto this kid. I mean calling a 15 yr old “the next Pele” is just a ridiculous amount of unnecessary pressure.
Keep cashin those checks Freddy!
+1 But don’t feel to sorry for him. The stark reality is that if you took Freddy Adu’s biography to date and removed any reference whatsoever to soccer or his involvement with the game, his life and experiences (and earnings) would still look far more impressive than most of ours. And he still has plenty of time to do more, if he likes. Or something totally different.
Realistically, in 10 years he will probably be playing second-division football on Neptune and still getting paid handsomely for his travels… while I will be living in a shared casket in Newark and selling Funyuns at NASL games
Freddy still has a long way to fall before that.
Where is he finding these teams? Air Bnb?
Is this dude in drugs or something? 🙂
What is his problem. Take him to church or something.
The funniest and saddest outcome of his future plans might be that he ends up in ligaMX before MLS and making more money than an average DP in MLS.
I used to to think cosmos would be an option but edu has serious grudges against MLS teams and MLS front offices.
Playing in Liga MX would probably have been a better career move for him at some point.
11th time is a charm! I’ve got my fingers crossed.
Maybe if we just take the cartridge out, blow on it a couple more times, hit the reset button and than bang the console…. anything?
He is a former USMNT player, no reason to wish him anything but good luck.
+1
Thank you NYC. Can you believe the hating on here? If WE treat him like this, a former USMNT player, its no surprise why he is treated worse in foreign countries. wow……
+1. I for one just hope he gets playing time with this club and it starts him back in the right direction.
+1
I am not part of the “i know what is best for you and your career” mob.
+1
last I remember Freddy Adu was playing damn good against Mexico in Gold Cup final and then having a poor Gold Cup game when Bradley sent him back to Europe “as was scheduled” I don’t think he ever played himself off the national team, his struggles at club level are obvious.
+1
The guy deserves some slack. So he didn’t turn out to be everything we wished he could be. Big deal. He’s a failed prodigy and the rest of the world is full of them.
Jesus, here we go again. Freddy Adu, the guy that keeps getting younger with every birthday.
Freddy Adu look like Bobby Schmurda.
…just caught another bench about a weeeeeeeek aaaaaaaaaaaaaaago.
Wiki’s soccer monitors are too busy trying to keep Freddy’s page updated and accurate to do much else 🙂
61 references and counting on his Wiki page.
No athlete will ever top Juwon Howard. The guy has more references than Abe Lincoln or World War I. Seriously.
Juwon Howard of Michigan Fab Four fame and Heat assistant coach? Why?
Seriously check it out sometime. The guy has clearly hired a full-time archivist (or a family of them) to handle his Wikipedia entry. It’s exhaustive to the point where you almost forget how utterly wasteful it is. Eat your heart out, Eric Montross.
You were not kidding. Under Humanitarianism, it should mention that he supports euthanasia, because it makes me want to kill myself after suffering the pain of scrolling through all the drivel.
His page is more detailed then a lot of really important people. lol, that’s so crazy.
I don’t remember the name Stephen McCarthy, after a wiki look up he played for the Carolina Dynamo, not Houston, Keep in mind that wiki isn’t 100% accurate either
Good for him. It’ll be interesting to see if they play him at all. How good is that league?
Why? Was their bench more comfortable than all the others?
Because I think the real issue in the Freddy Adu World Tour is that he is being paid more to not play in random countries then he would in MLS or NASL.
Should signed with Inter back in 2004.
yup, his biggest mistake
Please no more Adu news
You say that, but your still here posting.
As long articles with his name gets hits you’ll be seeing his name for a long time.
Freddy Adu, world globetrotter…. Coming to a continent near you
Yes, bring on the A-League and the J-League!
Suckers…
I’m more interested in when the Adu story Finnishes.
Zing!…..
Hey, who knows, maybe Freddy will regain his Finnishing touch there!
repeating a joke makes it less funny……..
So Suomi.
I thought it was funny.
His name now needs to be spelled Frodi Adukkinen (or similar) and he needs to have been drift driving on snow and ice since age 5.
aka 30 years ago.
I was just thinking it is hard to tell who looks older – Adu or the Finnish manager, owner, whoever that is.
I just saw the league there is named after a betting house, and before that league formed in the 90s, the top league was only semi-pro. The stadium Adu hopes to be playing in holds about half as many as my high school field did. This may not be rock bottom for a professional soccer player, but it looks a lot closer to the bottom than the top.
Given all that, I rescind my suspicion that he won’t dress for games. In a league just a couple decades past semi-pro, Adu could actually dominate.
He’s already chosen the name Illkka Scorragolo.
Game Minutes vs. Bench Minutes. What’s the Over/Under spread on that?! I’ll bet more bench minutes that games minutes.
Only Bizzy would disagree
Of course I disagree. He is going to resurrect his career, so get off his back and stop hating. Look for the Him in the Yanks abroad section (played 90 min assists and goals too!!!)
You’re assuming he’ll dress for games.
THAT bench is going to be reeeeeeeeealllllly cold!
Somehow, it seems perfect.
The average player in that league a few years ago made 24000 Euros/year which means this is likely for MLS or minor league money and perhaps out of pure stubbornness. I assume he wants a deal here for significant money without trialing. Since the violent murder of his Mr. 10% hasn’t been in the news I assume all this craziness has some rationale he accepts if not directs. Who will pay him OK to play without asking to see the goods first, perhaps. Otherwise the rational decision would be come home and sing for your supper, even trial in preseason if need be. But his saga is dripping in psychodrama. So Finland it is.
Bizzy, does this mean Adu should immediately start for the NT?….. Lol
+1
NO but I’m very very very happy right now hahahahahahahaha
nice one…….