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Frank Klopas, the Impact’s head coach and director of player personnel, announced on Tuesday that the club has exercised contract options for 14 players for the 2015 Major League Soccer season.

Goalkeeper Maxime Crépeau; defenders Hassoun Camara, Wandrille Lefèvre, Karl W. Ouimette and Maxim Tissot; midfielders Justin Mapp, Dilly Duka, Felipe, Calum Mallace, Issey Nakajima-Farran, Blake Smith and Louis Béland-Goyette; and forwards Jack McInerney and Anthony Jackson-Hamel will all return to the team.

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“I believe that we have a solid group of players who can give even more next year,” Klopas said in a statement. “I am pleased that several important players that make up the nucleus of the team will be back with us in 2015. That said, we want to make important additions to this group in key positions, while we are still in negotiations with Patrice Bernier, Andrés Romero, Heath Pearce and GeGe Soriola.”

Goalkeeper Troy Perkins’s contract has expired with the Impact and he will be eligible for the MLS re-entry draft on Dec. 12. The Impact decided not to exercise the contract option on midfielder Gorka Larrea.

On Monday, the Impact named Adam Braz as the club’s new technical director. The former Impact and Toronto FC defender was the club’s manager from 2011 to 2013. He replaces Matt Jordan, who left Montreal on Nov. 4 to become vice-president and general manager of MLS’s Houston Dynamo.