![]() On 25 April, Kompany again continued to captain the side in the absence of striker Carlos Tevez against Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park, playing the full 90 minutes alongside Lescott in a 1–0 victory. Kompany was handed the number 4 jersey for the 2010–11 season after previous wearer Nedum Onuoha moved on loan to Sunderland. Kompany holding the FA Cup during Manchester City's 2011 victory parade He scored his second league goal for the club in a 2–0 home win against Portsmouth and his third in a 6–1 win against Burnley at Turf Moor. ![]() On 19 October 2009, Kompany signed a new five-year deal with City that would keep him at the club until 2014. During his early time at Manchester City, Kompany played as a defensive midfielder. On 28 September, Kompany scored his first goal in City's 2–1 away defeat by Wigan Athletic. He made his debut two days later in a 3–0 home win against West Ham United, playing the entire match. On 22 August 2008, Premier League club Manchester City signed Kompany from Hamburg on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee. Hamburg won the title via being the Intertoto team that advanced furthest in the 2007–08 UEFA Cup. Kompany scored on 29 July 2007 in a 4–0 win (5–1 aggregate) over Moldova's FC Dacia Chișinău in the last round of the UEFA Intertoto Cup. Despite his lack of involvement in the season, he was selected in a 30-man provisional squad for the 2007 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship. In his debut season for Hamburg, he managed only six Bundesliga starts for the club before suffering an achilles injury in November that ruled him out for the rest of the season. On 9 June 2006, however, it was announced that Kompany had been acquired by Hamburger SV for a fee of €10 million, as a replacement for fellow Belgian Daniel Van Buyten. If I wanted to leave, I would have been gone already." Hamburg Kompany with Hamburg in 2006 "At the moment the zeros in my contract are not so important. "Don't you worry, I will stay here," he told Berend Scholten at. Although several top European sides immediately showed interest, the player and his entourage decided to first develop a few more years at Anderlecht. In 2022, he was hired by Burnley, winning the EFL Championship in his first season.īorn in Uccle, Brussels, Kompany started his career at Anderlecht at the age of 17, winning several awards including the Belgian Golden Shoe and the Belgian Ebony Shoe. A year later, he announced his retirement from professional football and became the first-team manager. In 2019, when his contract expired after 11 years at City, Kompany returned to Anderlecht as player-manager. ![]() He was part of their squad that came fourth at the 2008 Olympics as well as going to the FIFA World Cup in 20, coming a best-ever third at the latter. Kompany earned 89 caps for Belgium in a fifteen-year international career, having made his debut in 2004 at the age of 17. Kompany went on to win 11 more trophies at City and made 360 appearances. Kompany was included in the Premier League Team of the Year for two years in a row in 20 as well as being included in the 2014 team, and won the Premier League Player of the Season in 2012. In the 2011–12 season he was awarded the captaincy of City, leading his club to win the Premier League that season, their first league title in 44 years. In the summer of 2008, he completed a transfer to Premier League club Manchester City, where he established himself as an integral part of the squad and was regarded as one of the bargain buys of the revolutionised City era, blossoming into one of the league's best centre-backs. Kompany began his professional career at Anderlecht having graduated from their youth system, he was with the club for three seasons as a first team player before moving to Bundesliga club Hamburg in 2006. He also represented the Belgium national team for 15 years, seven as captain. He most notably played for Manchester City for eleven seasons, where he was captain for eight of them and became widely regarded as one of the league's greatest centre-backs. Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany ( French pronunciation: Dutch pronunciation: born 10 April 1986) is a Belgian professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back and is the current manager of Premier League club Burnley. *Club domestic league appearances and goals ![]()
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