The former captain of Manchester City, Vincent Kompany moved To the sky blue half of the city.
At the beginning of the 21st century, Kompany was an astonishing graduate of the Anderlecht’s academy and developed four in the back, while he was still 17 years old.
Half a decade before the high -towering Belgian in 2008 came to City, in the same summer when the club was taken over by Sheikh Mansour, Kompany’s first Champions League Away Day was a trip to Celtic Park.
The Bavarian Munich boss was again in Glasgow for the first leg of her playout playout game of the Champions League. When Kompany was asked about this landmark in 2003, he did not concentrate on the events on the field – Anderlecht lost 3: 1 – but on the numbers in the stand.
“It is not a nostalgic return,” Kompany told the media this week. “I come back as a coach, not as a player. I don’t want to bring in too much nostalgia, but it was great. I remember Sir Alex Ferguson was there to watch. If I had played well, maybe, maybe he would have made an offer for me.
A 17-year-old company and his teammates did not show a game for an inspired Celtic side this night in 2003. Fresh from the UEFA Cup final, a goal by Henrik Larsson, Liam Miller and Chris Sutton, fired the tires into a 3. -0 lead within the first half hour.
Company continued to develop in his youth club and left Anderlecht in 2006 to Hamburg. Later he joined City after two central cubes in Germany.
City ended the Premier League at the end of Kompany’s debut campaign in the Premier League, but ended his career in Etihad with four top titles and a couple of FA Cup crowns. “I am glad that I ended up on Manchester’s blue side,” grinned the Bayern boss.