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    Altidore struggling to handle early success

    By Ives Galarcep
    Special to ESPNsoccernet

    Friday, May 30, 2008

    How much is too much for an 18-year-old soccer player to handle? We might be learning just how much from Jozy Altidore. While most kids his age are concerned with things like prom pictures, yearbooks and high school graduation, Altidore is dealing with the type of attention few teenage American players before him have ever had to face. Whether it is being the subject of new transfer rumors on a regular basis, or being anointed as the future of American soccer with fans already penciling him ...

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