HELSINKI, Finland -- The Ghanaian-born United States citizen and 14-year-old wonder boy Freddy Adu will play in the FIFA Under-17 World Championship. The Americans were grouped with Spain, South Korea and Sierra Leone in Wednesday's draw. Their first-round games in the Aug. 13-30 championships will be in Lahti, 65 miles northeast of the capital, Helsinki.
The United States lost the bronze-medal game to Ghana on penalty kicks in the 1999 tournament in Australia.
The other groups will be:
Group A at Helsinki: China, Colombia, Finland, Mexico.
Group B at Turku: Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Nigeria.
Group C at Tampere: Brazil, Cameroon, Portugal, Yemen.
Group D at Lahti: USA, Spain, South Korea, Sierra Leone
HELSINKI, Finland -- The Ghanaian-born United States citizen and 14-year-old wonder boy Freddy Adu will play in the FIFA Under-17 World Championship. The Americans were grouped with Spain, South Korea and Sierra Leone in Wednesday's draw. Their first-round games in the Aug. 13-30 championships will be in Lahti, 65 miles northeast of the capital, Helsinki.
The United States lost the bronze-medal game to Ghana on penalty kicks in the 1999 tournament in Australia.
The other groups will be:
Group A at Helsinki: China, Colombia, Finland, Mexico.
Group B at Turku: Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica, Nigeria.
Group C at Tampere: Brazil, Cameroon, Portugal, Yemen.
Group D at Lahti: USA, Spain, South Korea, Sierra Leone
