Freddy Adu (No Hands Allowed: Soccer Stories)

Book Description
The United States has never seen a young soccer phenom like Freddy Adu before. As a young boy in the African country of Ghana, he learned to play with a soccer ball and make amazing fakes and tricks look easy. When he was eleven, he was scoring against thirteen- and fourteen-year-olds. When he was fourteen, he was a star on the Under-17 U.S. boys soccer team. At fourteen, he graduated from high school and became a professional soccer player. Now, he is one of the players who draws the biggest crowds to soccer stadiums all over the U.S. Freddy hopes to be one of the best soccer players in the world. He just might do it.

About the Author
Rebecca Thatcher Murcia grew up in Garrison, New York, and graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was a daily newspaper reporter—mostly in Texas—for 14 years. She is a soccer coach and player in Akron, Pennsylvania, where she lives with her husband and two sons. She is the author of other soccer biographies for Mitchell Lane Publishers, including David Beckham and Landon Donovan.


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