On a weekday morning in April 2014, Benny Feilhaber sat inside the Sporting Kansas City practice facility, offering an especially specific account of his time in Major League Soccer. It was hard to categorize the previous couple of months as anything other than a resurgence, he explained, and a delve into the numbers backed that up. He had become a focal point in the Sporting KC system a year after spending the summer as a part-time starter.
As it turned out, the resurgence was just getting started. In 2015, Feilhaber recorded more assists (20) in a single season than any player in club history.