Bayern Munich now has a coach! After receiving several rejections from candidates for its bench, the German club today announced the hiring of Vincent Kompany as coach of his first team for the next three seasons.
Kompany, Aged 38, he led Burnley from 2022, who were promoted to the Premier League in 2023 with a record of points (101) and victories (29 in 46 games), before losing the category in the season just ended . His contract expires in 2025, which is why Bayern have to pay the English club 10.5 million euros, according to German media.
Burnley announced his departure
So, at the same time that Bayern announced the hiring of Kompany, Burnley also publicly reported that an agreement had been reached with the Belgian coach to terminate his contract.
Kompany is not the leading candidate for the Bayern bench, having received rejections from Julian Nagelsmann, Xabi Alonso, Ralf Rangnick and himself Thomas Tuchel to continue their duties. Finally, the Belgian coach will let him go after a season in which the German giant handed over the Bundesliga hegemony to Xabi Alonso’s Bayer Leverkusen, after eleven consecutive years of winning the title, and finished in third place behind of Stuttgart. In the Champions League they lost in the semifinals against Real Madrid.
Guardiola, main character
As announced on Tuesday Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, member of Bayern’s supervisory board, the figure of Pep Guardiola was key to Kompany’s election.
“He talked about him as a great coach. pep know very well Vincent and his opinion is highly valued,” said Rummenigge. Guardiola had Kompany as a player and captain at Manchester City from 2016 to 2019.
He knows German and he knows the Bundesliga
That’s the truth Kompany Knowing German and knowing the Bundesliga from his time in the ranks of Hamburg between 2006 and 2008 also helped make him the new coach of Bayern today.
Kompany He started his career as a footballer at Anderlecht (2003-2006) before moving to Hamburg (2006-2008), Manchester City (2008-2019) and hanging up his boots at Anderlecht (2019-2020).
At the Brussels club he served as coach and player at the same time from July to August 2019 and only as coach after retirement, from 2020 to 2022, the year in which he took over at Burnley.
The style you want to implement
“I really want to take on the challenge of FC Bayern. It’s a great honor to be able to work for this club; FC Bayern is an institution in international football,” Kompany said in his first remarks before giving a link to his philosophy: ” “As a coach you have to like your personality. I love having possession, being creative and we also have to be aggressive and brave on the field.”
Source: La Verdad
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