D.C. United announced on Thursday that Ben Olsen, the longest tenured head coach in team history, has extended his contract with the team through 2021. Olsen, who has spent his entire professional career as a member of the Black-and-Red, extended his contract by two years with the club, with his original deal, signed back in September of 2014, set to end after the 2019 season.
Olsen has been at the helm of the club that drafted him in 1998 since the start of the 2011 season. The season before, he was an assistant under Curt Onalfo, before taking over on an interim basis in August 2010, after Onalfo was let go by the club.