From Club release:
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 8, 2024) – Nashville Soccer Club announced today that it has signed midfielder Amar Sejdić through 2024 with an option for 2025, following a trialing spell with the club in the 2024 preseason camp in Florida.
“Amar is a connector in midfield who is outstanding in possession and balances the other central players on our roster really well. His mentality on the field as well as in the locker room makes him a really strong fit for our group,” said Nashville SC General Manager Mike Jacobs.
The 27-year-old spent the last three seasons with Atlanta United FC, where he logged 2,814 minutes in 56 regular season MLS matches, including 37 starts.
Sejdic was drafted 34th overall by Montréal in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft after a decorated college career at the University of Maryland. He spent 2019-21 with Montréal, appearing in 22 regular season MLS matches (12 starts) and one MLS Cup Playoffs match, where he logged 90 minutes and an assist. Sejdic was acquired by Atlanta United FC from CF Montréal via trade on July 6, 2021.
His time as a Terrapin culminated with the game-winning penalty kick in the 2018 National Championship match, a College Cup Most Valuable Player Award, and a Big 10 Best XI selection that same year.
As a youth, Sejdić spent time with Real Salt Lake’s U18 youth academy team and the Vitesse Youth Team in the Dutch Eredivisie, the Netherlands’ top professional league.
Nashville SC Release
Here’s what I’ve written about Sejdic in the past…
“not enough data” for the 2019 Expansion Draft (before 2020 season). He was reserve-minimum at that time.
In the midfield, you have pure holder Victor Wanyama, with right-sided Samuel Piette and left-sided Amar Sejdic playing box-to-box roles (Sejdic tends to get a little more forward and drift centrally more, while Piette hugs the right sideline even when there’s nominally a wingback on his side).
Oct. 27, 2020
A 4-2-3-1 has seen Santiago Sosa and Amar Sejdic as a double-pivot, while more recently a 4-3-3 has Franco Ibarra playing as the lone holder. Matheus Rosetto and Luis Araújo are the attacking midfielders, while Thiago Almada and Marcelino Moreno are playing on the wings.
May 11, 2022
…and early last year was last rosy:
Ibarra is the key piece as a defensive midfielder, mostly flanked by Sejdic. The latter has been bad in basically all G+ breakouts, while Ibarra is an elite interruptor that is similarly bad in the non-interrupting aspects.
April 29, 2023
Atlanta also stunk for a lot of the early part of last season, so I would shy away from reading too much into Sejdic’s individual numbers, and instead chalk them up to team effects. His numbers didn’t pick up, but the non-attacking midfielders all put up bad numbers for Atlanta, so again: team effects.
He’s 27 and was on a senior-minimum deal last year, so if you’re following the moneyball aspects, feels like a low-risk signing (and like NSC’s propensity for signing Red Bulls – probably a guy who looks better in Nashville’s system than he might appear for ATL).
Club and Country 