Freddy Adu selling vacuum cleaners

[Skooby]

Former U.S. wonderkid Freddy Adu sells vacuum cleaners on Twitter

Former U.S. wonderkid Freddy Adu sells vacuum cleaners on Twitter

Once upon a time, a teenage Freddy Adu was being hyped as "the new Pele," such was the prodigious young American striker's potential to take the football world by storm.

Since those heady days in the early 2000s when he had a trial with Manchester United and was top of Championship Manager's wonderkid list, Adu's stock has continued to fall and fall as repeated attempts to kick-start his career have seen his progress hampered at every turn.

After botched stints in Portugal, Turkey, Finland, Serbia and Brazil, the 26-year-old is currently back on home soil plying his trade at Tampa Bay Rowdiesin the NASL.

That said, if his latest sponsored tweet is anything to go by, it looks as though his career is a mess (get it?) at the moment.

It's easy to sneer, but the guy has successfully carved himself out a (slightly meandering) career as a professional footballer and still has enough of a profile to make a bit of extra cash on the side. And he has a clean house. That's more than most of us can say, isn't it?

 

[Higher Tech]

They paid him to tweet about a vacuum... What's the big deal?

 

[RubioTheCruel]

I opened this thread thinkin he's working at a Sears or somethin now

 

[Skip b]

I opened this thread thinkin he's working at a Sears or somethin now

Opened the thread like damn Freddie out here knocking on door to door trying to sell Kirbys

 

[mastermind]

he is getting paid to tweet. Better than anything we are doing.

 

[I AM WARHOL]

nikka he is sponsored. Big difference

 

[GzUp]

he is not 26 years old

 

[Brozay]

Click his twitter to see hes still playing professional soccer and is being paid to tweet about vacuums

Doesnt sound so bad

 

[VelourSocks]

Son.... No one finds it funny that he is sponsored by fukking Hoover?

Like could you get sponsored by a brand that is as lame as that.

I was dying when I seen this

 

[AAKing23]

Let him cook

 

[MrFettuccinnePockets]

They paid him to tweet about a vacuum... What's the big deal?

Man but remember the hype dude was getting back in the day?

Homie suppossed to be in the premier league killing it.

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

50k post and @cook hasnt given me one penny


Let him cook

 

[Higher Tech]

Man but remember the hype dude was getting back in the day?

Homie suppossed to be in the premier league killing it.

I remember. But he was 14, and I don't watch soccer. If they signed a 14 yr old to any other pro sport, people would expect him to fizzle out. He just can't compete with grown men

 

[Spaceman Piff]

cordless

 

[mastermind]

Son.... No one finds it funny that he is sponsored by fukking Hoover?

Like could you get sponsored by a brand that is as lame as that.

I was dying when I seen this

what are you sponsored by?