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.
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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