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Sporting KC signs midfielder Benny Feilhaber to new contract through 2018

Sporting Kansas City has signed midfielder Benny Feilhaber to a new, two-year contract through 2018, the club announced Wednesday.

“It’s been our intention all along to do everything we can to re-sign Benny,” Sporting KC Manager Peter Vermes said. “We appreciate the professionalism that he and his agent have shown throughout the process and are very excited that he is coming back to our club. Benny has been an important part of the club’s success over the past four years and we look to continue that moving forward.”

Feilhaber, 31, has helped lead Sporting Kansas City to the MLS Cup Playoffs in each of his four seasons with the team, hoisting the 2013 MLS Cup and 2015 Lamar Hunt U.