Every World Cup mints new celebrities on and off the pitch.
This summer’s tournament in North America has generated an unlikely one in “Freddy,” a German soccer fan whose enthusiastic documentation of his American travels under the handle @FreddyLA7 has made him a viral sensation.
In the roughly 10 days since he began posting about what he calls his World Cup “road trip,” Freddy has amassed close to 700,000 followers.
Soon, Freddy may be on his way to the White House.
Nick Adams, the former conservative media gadfly whose title in the Trump administration is Special Presidential Envoy for American, Tourism, Exceptionalism, and Values, told Front Office Sports in an interview Thursday that he has been in contact with Freddy and is in talks to host the mega-viral World Cup fan at both the White House and State Department before the tournament concludes. (Adams’s role is housed within the State Department.)
