WYNALDA EXCITED ABOUT ADU'S DEBUT.Byline: - Tom Hoffarth Eric Wynalda Eric Wynalda (born June 9, 1969 in Fullerton, California) is a former American international center forward, and the joint all-time leading scorer for the U.S. National Team (along with Landon Donovan). insists that Freddy Adu Fredua Koranteng "Freddy" Adu (born 2 June 1989 in Tema, Ghana) is a Ghanaian-American footballer playing as a striker and an attacking midfielder. He currently plays for Portuguese team S.L. Benfica. won't get any special treatment from him during ABC's telecast of the 14-year-old's Major League Soccer pro debut Saturday. That doesn't mean Wynalda won't have some emotional investment in Adu's performance when he and D.C. United D.C. United is a professional soccer club located in Washington, D.C. that participates in Major League Soccer. The club's official nickname is the "Black-and-Red" and home uniforms are black and white with accents of red. The team's name refers to Washington, D.C. face Landon Donovan and the MLS See multilevel security. champion San Jose Earthquakes
``This is by far the most I've been excited about covering a sporting event,'' said Wynalda, the former Westlake High and U.S. National Team star who has been moved up from the sidelines to be the game analyst in the booth on ABC's soccer telecasts this season. ``I'm really anxious to see how Freddy does and I also will always be one of those guys that outside the booth and outside of what I do will extend myself as someone who will be there for advice from him.'' ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. had a simple 1.0 national rating for last year's MLS opener, which featured the Galaxy against Columbus, but the network could double that Saturday. The 1 p.m. kickoff Saturday does not conflict with CBS' coverage of the NCAA Tournament Final Four (which begins at 3:30 p.m.) and has only NBC's PGA Tour golf coverage to compete with as far as network sports programming in that time slot. So what is reasonable to expect from Adu, not just in his first game, but this season? ``He just wants to play and he's going to show us who he is when he gets those opportunities to play and I would encourage all of us to judge him on face value and how he performs,'' said Wynalda. ``Because of his skill level and his abilities, he's good enough to play in this league.'' |
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