Fire extends Logan Pause’s contract

The Chicago Fire has extended the contract of team captain and midfielder Logan Pause through 2013.

Per league and team policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.

“Logan has been a valuable asset to this club for a decade now,” Fire head coach Frank Klopas said in a statement released Tuesday. “Logan is a great leader for our younger players on the field and in the locker room and personifies our tenets of tradition, honor and passion.”

Selected in the third round (24th overall) of the 2003 MLS SuperDraft, Pause heads into his 10th season in Chicago as the longest-serving member of the current Fire first team. Named club captain at the start of the 2011 MLS campaign, the University of North Carolina product finished the season with 227 career regular season appearances, putting him second on the club’s all-time list behind retired defender C.J. Brown (296).

The 30-year-old Fire veteran (5-foot-10, 155 pounds) tallied 2 goals and 11 assists in league play last season, and is the only player to appear in 21 or more regular season matches over the course of nine consecutive seasons with the Fire.