Manager and Technical Director Peter Vermes has inked a new contract with Sporting Kansas City through the 2019 MLS season, committing his immediate future to a club where he has won three major trophies and ascended into elite company among Major League Soccer's most successful coaches.
In Tuesday's press conference regarding the announcement, Vermes spoke thankfully and vibrantly about the previous decade — he joined Kansas City as a technical director in 2006 — while also making it clear that the club ventures forward with great ambition. Sporting Kansas City has become, in his own words, a "model franchise of MLS," and that will remain the standard as he continues his stint as the league's longest-tenured manager.