Juan Agudelo’s MLS return is the latest cautionary tale about Americans playing overseas
Juan Agudelo is back in Major League Soccer, and there are lessons to be learned (or re-learned) from what we’ll call “a close shave.” We are talking, after all, about a guy who flirted briefly with a career death tumble into the Freddy Adu zone.
Even if you aren’t 100 percent sure what the “Freddy Adu zone” is, you can probably guess that it’s not a good place to be.
Agudelo is still just 22 years old, although it’s probably safe to say the last 12 difficult months have aged him significantly. So the man who scored his first United States…
