Freddy Adu quits Finnish club

US football star, Freddy Adu just left his 11th club team, claiming he unilaterally ended his contract with KuPS in Finland. It had been less than three and half months since he joined the Finnish club.

He has now, 12 years into his preposterously premature career, played for D.C. United, Real Salt Lake, Benfica (Portugal), AS Monaco (Monte Carlo/France), Belenenses (Portugal), Aris (Greece), Rizespor (Turkey), Philadelphia Union, Bahia (Brazil), Jagodina (Serbia) and KuPS.

Although word has it that Adu wasn't in sufficient shape to play for KuPS's first team in the lowly Finnish league, he was playing for its reserves in Finland's fourth flight. He was, in essence, banished to football’s Siberia, which was —both geographically and meteorologically — very close to actual Siberia.

But now, it seems, even Siberia doesn't have room for Freddy Adu.

At 26, most football players enter their prime. But "The Next Pele" is, once again, looking for a club where he can make good on even a fraction of his once-overhyped potential.