SSFC Spotlight: Tanner Tessmann adjusts to Italy

Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports Recently promoted Serie A side Venezia FC has been connected to at least a half-dozen American players during this transfer window, so far signing two. Gianluca Busio garnered the lion’s share of the headlines, but it is Tanner Tessmann who already debuted for the Italian club. The 19-year-old center midfielder appeared in the first round of the Coppa Italia for I Leoni a\u0142ati (The Winged Lions), helping to earn a victory over Frosinone. Long on potential but relatively short on experience, he made an early jump to Europe and took advantage of the seeming gold rush, a decision that could prove shrewd over time.

Francis Tessmann was born in Birmingham,…