Nashville SC signed 17-year-old forward Adem Sipić to a homegrown contract earlier on Tuesday, the first player to come through Nashville’s academy system all the way to the first team.
Nashville rolled out all the stops for their first-ever academy-produced player, putting on a full press conference to announce Sipić’s contract. For a club that has invested heavily in their academy and taken a slower approach to developing talent, they’re understandably proud.
“It really is a peek behind the curtain of what we hope will start to be a conveyor belt of players being grown develop through our First Team be it through our youth academy, which Adem has absolutely smashed over the past year or through Huntsville City FC, where he scored his first professional goal just a couple of days ago,” Nashville SC general manager Mike Jacobs said in the press conference.
