# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/freddy-adu
# Generated: 2026-09-03T11:26:47.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/freddy-adu"
name: "Freddy Adu"
slug: "freddy-adu"
description: "Fredua Koranteng \"Freddy\" Adu is a former professional soccer player who played as an attacking midfielder. Born in Ghana, he played for the United States national team. From before the time of his signing with D.C. United at the age of 14, Adu was spoken of as \"the next Pelé\". After leaving D.C. United in 2006, he became a journeyman, playing for fifteen teams in nine countries: the United States, Portugal, Monaco, Greece, Turkey, Brazil, Serbia, Finland, and Sweden."
tagline: "American soccer player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Freddy_Adu_20110622.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1989-06-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.83
  momentum:             15.93920386007238
  historical:           23.80413733333334
  currentAttention:     32.99557700040211
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://x.com/FreddyAdu"
    handle:    "FreddyAdu"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/freddy_adu/"
    handle:    "freddy_adu"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "פרדי אדו"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Freddy Adu"
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    title: "프레디 아두"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredijs_Adu"
    title: "Fredijs Adu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310369"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump