Last year, Real Salt Lake added yet another name to the list of players to emerge from the “Homegrown Factory.” On September 25, Andrew Brody signed a first team contract becoming the club’s 23rd to do so, but at 25-years-old the defender is by far the oldest.
Brody’s path to the top level of professional soccer is one that is reminiscent of the daily grind of everyday workers around the world.
As a high schooler, Brody was plucked from obscurity into the Real Salt Lake Academy by happenstance of being in the right place at the right time, getting the opportunity to try out and taking the bull by the horns, earning a spot in one of the nation’s top youth development clubs.