Freddy Adu
Freddy Adu
Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Aduis an American soccer player who plays for the Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League. Adu plays primarily as an attacking midfielder, but he is also used as a winger or forward...
NationalityGhanaian
ProfessionAthlete
Date of Birth2 June 1989
CountryGhana
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I think I could be an impact player this season, ... When I'm out on the field, I'm not scared of anyone. I'm just going to move the ball -- boom-boom , one-touch, two-touch -- and when the right time comes and I've got somebody one-on-one, I'll take him. But I'm not always going to have the greatest game of my life. There's going to be games when I absolutely suck. That happens to everybody. So it'll be up to me to regroup and try to find a way to bounce back.
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This was huge for the morale of the team. The way we lost the last couple of games was just 'Ouch!' That would just destroy anybody on any team, but not D.C. United. These guys have so much confidence that nothing gets us down, so we just came out and took it to them.
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We knew we were due to just explode and have a lot of goals in one of these games sometime soon. It's a really good feeling.
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There are some casual fans who think you're going to dominate a game, be magic, score 10 goals. Even if you dominate a game, you'll only score two or three goals.
player thinking games
It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute every minute of every game.
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You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.
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We wish we would have gotten the three points, but it was slow start from us. I guess there were a lot of nerves. We settled down in the second half and played our game. It was a great comeback.
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I see myself in a World Cup final for the U.S.A., playing against a top-notch team everyone picks to winand we just come out and blast them. One day when Im holding that trophy, someones gonna take a picture. Oh, man. That is going to be huge.
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I've been waiting for this moment for the longest time and it's finally here, ... I just want to get out there and play and have fun. After all, when I'm on the soccer field, that's when I'm at my happiest.
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I've been waiting for it for a long time and it finally comes. I was very excited.
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I've been in this league for two years, and it's been the same, ... I love the guys on this team. I don't want to leave. ... I'm not saying that I'm going to leave, but I always have to look ahead and see what the best situation is.
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Bruce said he's going to be monitoring my every move. I've just got to work hard and keep improving and bring that to D.C. United. If I do that, Bruce is watching, and he might give me that last shot to go in and prove something.
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Before, I played with fear because there was a lot of pressure, and, being as young as I was, it got to me a little bit, ... Now I'm getting game-winning goals for D.C. (United) and assists and just playing very well. I'm (no longer) trying to impress anybody. I just do my thing.
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didn't want me that deep. He said he needed me up top to get some offense.