{"id":1235878,"date":"2021-12-02T13:29:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?p=1235878"},"modified":"2021-12-02T13:29:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T13:29:22","slug":"freddy-adu-cristiano-ronaldo-man-utd-trial","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/news\/freddy-adu-cristiano-ronaldo-man-utd-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Former wonderkid Freddy Adu says Cristiano Ronaldo was the only one who talked to him during Man Utd trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former USMNT wonderkid Freddy Adu says Cristiano Ronaldo was the only player who made an effort to talk to him during his trial for Manchester United in 2006.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Adu was tipped to make it to the very top during his early years in the sport, rising to prominence as a precocious teenager for D.C. United, where his form was such that he made his international debut for the United States at just 16.<\/p>\n

It was during this point that Europe started to take notice of the starlet across the Atlantic, and he ultimately went on trial with Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United in 2006, where he linked up with a hosts of superstars, including Ronaldo.<\/p>\n\n

Adu wouldn’t land that coveted contract with the Old Trafford club and his career nosedive from ‘the next Pele’ to forgotten man is one well-documented, but he will always have the memory of testing himself with some of the game’s biggest names.<\/span><\/p>\n

During that trial with Man Utd in the mid-noughties, Adu says there was only one player at the club who made a genuine effort to communicate with him, and that was Ronaldo who, in 2006, had already established himself as one of the game’s best.<\/p>\n

“Everybody is always talking about Ronaldo is arrogant, he is this and that, but let me tell you that out of all of the players that were there \u2013 he was the one person out of all of them that made it a point to come to me, to talk to me, offered to take me to dinner,” Adu told\u00a0<\/span><\/em>BritishGambler.co.uk<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n