Freddy Adu

Young Soccer Super Star

By Murcia, Rebecca Thatcher & Thatcher, Becky

Publishers Summary:
The United States has never seen a young soccer phenom like Freddy Adu before. As a young boy in the African country of Ghana, he learned to play with a soccer ball and make amazing fakes and tricks look easy. When he was eleven, he was scoring against thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds. When he was fourteen, he was a star on the Under-17 U.S. boys soccer team. At fourteen, he graduated from high school and became a professional soccer player. Now, he is one of the players who draws the biggest crowds to soccer stadiums all over the U.S. Freddy hopes to be one of the best soccer players in the world. He just might do it.

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ISBN
978-1-58415-385-6
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers


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School Library Journal

Reviewed on October 1, 2005

Gr 2-4 These slim biographies cover the childhoods and early fame of these young soccer stars. All have a large, bold font and mostly short declarative sentences and contain a multitude of colorful action photographs. However, all too often the captions include the word -here - as in -here she celebrates -& - or -here he hold...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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