Born: April
10, 1986
Birthplace: Uccle, Belgium
Zodiac Sign:
Aries
Vincent Jean Mpoy Kompany is
a Belgian professional football manager and former player who played as a center-back.
Kompany is the current
manager of the EFL Championship club Burnley.
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 center-backs.
In addition, Kompany
represented the Belgium national team for 15 years, seven as captain.
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.
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 revolutionized City era, blossoming into one of the
league's best center-backs.
In the 2011–12 season, he won
the captaincy of City, leading his club to win the Premier League that season,
their first league title in 44 years.
Kompany was in the Premier
League Team of the Year for two years in 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2022.
Kompany went on to win 11
more trophies at City and made 360 appearances.
Kompany earned 89 caps for
Belgium in a fifteen-year international career, debuting in 2004 at 17.
He was part of their squad
that came fourth at the 2008 Olympics and went to the FIFA World Cup in 2014
and 2018, reaching a best-ever third at the latter. He served as captain from
2010.
In 2019, when his contract
expired after 11 years at City, Kompany returned to Anderlecht as
player-manager.
A year later, he retired from
professional football and became the first-team manager.
In 2022, Burnley hired him.