2024-05-30 01:49:25
FC Bayern has a brand new coach. The months-long search is over. However the brand new man on the sidelines is instantly considered critically. Too essential.
The soon-to-be German champions have introduced in a coach who has solely been on the sidelines for just a few years. Who has performed on the highest degree and received one title after one other. Who was coached by world-class coach Pep Guardiola and praised to the skies. Who, as coach, was promoted two seasons earlier than the transfer and relegated one season earlier than the transfer.
In the summertime of 2024, FC Bayern will signal a person who suits all of those descriptions. His title is Vincent Kompany (38). He’s supposed to guide Bayern again to the championship and assist them regain their former glory. However, the Belgian is being branded by critics as a result of he was relegated from the Premier League with FC Burnley final season. Anybody who reduces Kompany to that’s falling into the entice and making a careless mistake.
FC Bayern wants a coach who brings an offensive, dominant model of play. Within the day-to-day enterprise of the Bundesliga, many of the document champions’ opponents concentrate on protection. As well as, a sure charisma and authority is important to manage the various sturdy characters within the Munich dressing room. The coach should even be a superb communicator, ideally talking a number of languages. And he should be capable to work with younger gamers, as a result of the administration’s acknowledged want is to combine extra expertise into the skilled squad. Within the “Sport Bild” newspaper, sports activities director Max Eberl described Jamal Musiala (21 years outdated), Mathys Tel (19) and Aleksandar Pavlović (20) as “faces of the long run”.
Vincent Kompany brings all of that with him. He dominated the English second division (“Championship”) with Burnley FC within the 2022/2023 season, changing into clear champions with 101 factors and thus reaching the third-highest variety of factors in Championship historical past. His staff scored probably the most targets (87) and had the best common ball possession (64.6 p.c). Burnley was dubbed the Manchester Metropolis of the Championship. There are worse issues than being in comparison with Pep Guardiola’s staff.
Underneath coach Vincent Kompany, many younger gamers took the subsequent step. Ian Maatsen, for instance, who was a fixture in Burnley’s staff within the promotion 12 months of 2022/23. BVB finally benefited from this, with Maatsen impressing within the second half of the present season. Nathan Tella, for whom Leverkusen paid greater than 20 million euros in the summertime of 2023, was a daily in Burnley below Kompany.
Lengthy-time central defender Kompany additionally has the mandatory charisma, having been captain of Manchester Metropolis for eight years (2011 to 2019). World stars resembling Sergio Agüero, Kevin de Bruyne and Yaya Touré had been subordinate to him. It additionally helped that Kompany speaks English, Flemish, French and German. The 38-year-old is an informed man. In 2017 he accomplished a grasp’s diploma in enterprise administration in Manchester. It was a want of his mom, who died of most cancers in 2008.
However he did not simply research enterprise administration, he additionally remained interested in soccer. “I’ve thought-about myself a scholar of the sport since I began taking part in on the age of six,” he’s quoted as saying by journalist Grant Wahl in his e book “Soccer 2.0”. “I’ve all the time had an opinion and my very own concepts about how soccer ought to be performed, and I’ve all the time listened very rigorously to my coaches and different individuals concerned in soccer.” On the similar time, he has all the time tailored his views and discovered new issues. A high quality he’s most happy with.