Paolo Delpiccolo, the Team Morning, and I Said, ‘Are You Ready for the Captain, Has Been with Loucity Through Playoffs?’” Hackwork Remembers
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Go LouCity! totalprosource.com I 888.698.0763 Cincinnati I Dayton I Louisville I Lexington I Huntington I Charleston metrounitedway.org/2020 IN THIS ISSUE GAME PREVIEW 04 LouCity gets playoff-ready; 'that's just what we do here' TEAM ROSTERS 05 A look at team rosters for Louisville City FC and Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC LYNN FAMILY STADIUM 06 Key details about LouCity's new home EASTERN CONFERENCE STANDINGS 07 Where LouCity currently stands in the Eastern Conference JOHN HACKWORTH 08 Meet Louisville City FC's head coach LOUCITY STAFF 10-11 Louisville City's Coaches, Front Office, Technical Staff, & Medical Staff MEET THE TEAM 13-17 Player profiles for every athlete PLAYOFF BRACKET 20 USL Championship 2020 playoffs bracket COMMUNITY AND CHAMBER PARTNERS 28 A listing of Louisville City's business and civic partners 03 LOUCITY GETS PLAYOFF-READY; 'THAT'S JUST WHAT WE DO HERE' By Maggie Wesley The postseason brings a different sort of himself to LouCity’s culture. “Even in energy to many teams. That, however, training their leadership shows a lot. I just isn’t the case for Louisville City FC. try and take whatever I can and apply it Coach John Hackworth discovered it to the game. shortly after his arrival, when the boys “…Since they’ve been through it so many in purple were en route to winning their times, they know exactly how to deal second straight USL title. with it and what to expect. I’m new so I’m “I remember in 2018 walking into the learning everyday what that’s like.” locker room with Niall (McCabe) early one Midfielder Paolo DelPiccolo, the team morning, and I said, ‘Are you ready for the captain, has been with LouCity through playoffs?’” Hackwork remembers. “And all but one of those playoff runs. he said, ‘That’s just what we do here. We “I think this time of year is just naturally are always ready for the playoffs.’ going to be more exciting,” DelPiccolo “Clearly since I’ve been here, that said. “Our whole culture and brand is expectation is not just reaching the treating every game like the playoffs playoffs but winning the whole thing.” and trying to keep the same level and LouCity will set out in earnest toward consistency from day one as far as we putting a third star above its crest can go. at 7:30 p.m. Saturday when hosting “For us, it’s trying to do the same stuff Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC in the USL over and over. You say that, but obviously Championship Playoffs. the playoffs have a special feeling and The club, in its sixth season, has reached special meaning.” at least the Eastern Conference Final “All of us are a little spoiled in that regard each year. It won a first USL Cup in 2017 which makes this particular game against and made history the following year in Pittsburgh in the first round that much becoming the first team to win back-to- more important and meaningful,” added back titles. Hackworth, whose side completed So for the veterans on this team, the an abbreviated USL season 11-3-2, feeling is familiar — seeing leaves earning the points necessary to win change colors and their season continue. its regionalized group and open the As for 17-year-old Jonathan Gomez, he’s postseason at Lynn Family Stadium. taking notes. “Especially, since the fact that we won the Eastern Conference and secured home “They’ve been in that situation a lot field advantage as long as we advance. of times before, so just take whatever It is an expectation and it is something they’re telling me and try and apply it,” that not one of us would think was any said Gomez, a rookie left back aligning different.” 04 TEAM ROSTERS 1 CHRIS HUBBARD GK 1 DANNY VITIELLO GK 3 ALEXIS SOUAHY D 2 MARK LINDSTROM D 4 SEAN TOTSCH D 3 ROPAPA MENSAH F 5 JIMMY OCKFORD D 4 DANI ROVIRA MF 6 WES CHARPIE D 5 JORDAN DOVER D 8 AKIL WATTS D 6 XHELIL ASANI D 9 LUKE SPENCER F 7 RYAN JAMES D 10 BRIAN OWNBY F 8 DAKOTA BARNATHAN MF 11 NIALL MCCABE MF 9 ALBERT DIKWA F 13 CORBEN BONE MF 10 STEEVAN DOS SANTOS F 14 ABDOU THIAM F 11 KENARDO FORBES MF 15 PAT MCMAHON D 12 DANNY GRIFFIN MF 17 CAMERON LANCASTER F 14 ROBBIE MERTZ MF 19 OSCAR JIMENEZ D 15 ANTHONY VELARDE MF 22 GEORGE DAVIS IV F 16 MARK FORREST F 27 NAPO MATSOSO MF 17 THOMAS VANCAEYEZEELE D 29 ANTOINE HOPPENOT MF 18 TOMAS GOMEZ GK 36 PAOLO DELPICCOLO MF 20 TONY WALLS D 38 ARDA BULUT F 21 PATRICK BUNK-ANDERSEN D 39 BEN LUNDT GK 22 HUNTER ASHWORTH D 42 JONATHAN GOMEZ D 23 RAY LEE D 45 DAMIR BEGANOVIC MF 24 ANTHONY MWEMBIA GK 61 ELIJAH WYNDER MF 33 LUKAS FERNANDES F 77 JASON JOHNSON F 34 SKYLAR THOMAS D 80 DEVON "SPEEDY" WILLIAMS MF 91 MUAMER UGARAK M HEAD COACH | JOHN HACKWORTH HEAD COACH | BOB LILLEY 05 Doing Things Your Way. Six Feet Away. The Official Credit Union of Louisville City FC! 502.968.3681 parkcommunity.com WELCOME TO The $65 million stadium sits on a 10-acre parcel in the Butchertown neighborhood east of downtown. Normal capacity is 15,304, and the venue could range up to 25,000 for concerts. Unique to Lynn is a 72-foot Modelo bar in the open end, believed to be the longest of its kind in Kentucky. The jumbotron ranks second in size behind only Churchill Downs’ Big Board. The natural surface is made up of Tahoma 31 Bermuda overseeded with rye, and it can remain green year round thanks to a sub-air system that removes excessive moisture, but can also blow hot or cold air to keep grass at an ideal temperature. The lines measure 120 feet by 80, a major upgrade from the 105 by 75 pitch at LouCity’s former LouCity has ensured its late home, Louisville Slugger Field. founder’s legacy lives on within the club’s new home. Architect and philanthropist Wayne Estopinal, who brought pro soccer to town, is the namesake behind the closed end of Lynn Family Stadium, the standing supporter zone. Estopinal, whose firm also designed the University of Louisville’s similarly named Lynn Stadium, died in a November 2018 plane crash at age 63. 06 EASTERN CONFERENCE GROUP STANDINGS GROUP E GP W L D GF GA GD PTS Y - LOUISVILLE CITY FC 16 11 3 2 26 11 16 35 X - SAINT LOUIS FC 16 7 5 4 20 17 1 25 E - INDY ELEVEN 16 7 7 2 20 20 2 23 E - SPORTING KANSAS CITY II 16 5 10 1 20 28 -9 16 GROUP F GP W L D GF GA GD PTS Y - HARTFORD ATHLETIC 16 11 3 2 29 24 7 35 X- PITTSBURGH RIVERHOUNDS SC 16 11 4 1 37 9 29 34 E - NEW YORK RED BULLS II 16 5 11 0 30 35 -7 15 E - PHILADELPHIA UNION II 16 2 11 3 19 43 -25 9 E - LOUDOUN UNITED 13 1 9 3 10 28 -18 6 GROUP G GP W L D GF GA GD PTS Y - CHARLOTTE INDEPENDENCE 16 8 4 4 28 16 2 28 X - BIRMINGHAM LEGION FC 16 7 5 4 23 22 10 25 E - NORTH CAROLINA FC 15 6 8 1 17 20 -4 19 E - MEMHPIS 901 FC 15 4 7 4 21 30 -7 16 GROUP H GP W L D GF GA GD PTS Y - TAMPA BAY ROWDIES 16 10 3 3 24 9 14 33 X - CHARLESTON BATTERY 15 9 3 3 24 14 11 30 E - THE MIAMI FC 16 4 8 4 17 33 -14 16 E - ATLANTA UNITED 2 16 3 10 3 22 30 -10 12 x - Clinched playoff berth y - Group Winner e - Eliminated from playoff contention 07 JOHN HACKWORTH Louisville City Football Club coach John Hackworth was hired in the middle of the 2018 season and promptly led the Club to its second USL Cup championship, completing the first back-to-back USL Cup titles in modern USL history. Hackworth was hired on Aug. 2, 2018, taking over for previous coach James O’Connor who was hired with Orlando City “Those that know him have applauded of the MLS. After O’Connor left, Louisville his coaching acumen, but his character is City continued its season as a player-led what we are most excited about as we take team until Hackworth took over mid-August. Louisville City FC forward,” Estes said of Under Hackworth’s direction, LouCity Hackworth. closed out the regular season well and Prior to Louisville City, Hackworth had then rolled through the 2018 USL playoffs been in charge of the U.S.