Extol Sports July 2017 | Page 36

LOUISVILLE CITY FC Kickin’ It With… Jonathan Lintner BY GRANT VANCE | COURTESY PHOTOS The world of sports familiarized as a medium where icons are idolized. Prolific characters taking roles as the face of any given team, for any given sport is far from a rarity – especially when it comes to soccer. component to any team, but the true hidden hero is the voice of a team, the man or woman behind the curtains acting as a middle-agent between team and fans, keeping an open dialogue between the two entities. There are, of course, the David Beckhams and Lionel Messis, Peles and Ronaldos, but that’s old news. Players are obviously an important For Louisville City FC, this cloaked agent of dialogue is Jonathan Lintner. 34 EXTOL SPORTS / JULY 2017 Lintner is the young, professional team’s media director and has directed their public relations for “a little over a year now,” he said. His relationship with the team, however, stretches much further than that. “I’ve been writing about Louisville City FC since before Louisville City FC was a thing,” Lintner said. “I wrote the article for The Courier-Journal that first announced Louisville FC was going to