This nonsense has to stop. Christian Pulisic's emergence on the Bundesliga scene with Borussia Dortmund this season has been incredibly entertaining to watch as an avid follower of American soccer. The insistence of some paranoid people to compare his rise and subsequent publicity to that of Freddy Adu's is completely wrong.
Granted that both were extremely talented young players, but there's a big difference between being a child prodigy at 14 and a young up-and-coming soccer prospect at 17. One is the natural career course hundreds of promising players take to the professional ranks and the other is a complete farce of youth development.