Bayern coach reveals explosive details
“That was unacceptable for me on principle”
Updated on September 12, 2025 – 1:41 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Vincent Kompany meets the Hamburger SV as a trainer for the first time. Before seeing the reunion, the Belgian Nureau reveals the background of the farewell at that time.
Bayern Munich’s head coach Vincent Kompany still has the last game in which Hamburger SV was able to get a point in Munich. Finally he was still in the HSV squad in the 2-2 17 years ago. “I still remember the game,” he said before his reunion with the Hamburg club on Saturday (6.30 p.m. in the live ticker at T-Online).
Kompany referred to a crucial moment: “I decided afterwards that I wanted to go.” But what exactly had happened that the company prompted this drastic step? “Back then they brought me back from the Olympic Games and I was only sitting on the bench. I was so angry,” said the Belgian and laughed.
The HSV had ordered the defensive player back early from Olympics in the summer of 2008, although its national team played for the medals at the summer games in Beijing. The fact that coach Martin Jol only put him on the bench in the opening game in Munich was too much for Kompany. “I said: that doesn’t work!” Dated the 39-year-old. “That was unacceptable for me. After this game, I decided that I wanted to do something else.”
At the time, his father tried to move him to stay with HSV. “But I wanted to go, didn’t make a bad decision with Manchester City.” He started in England, got many titles and rose to the captain of the “Cityzens”.
Despite the unfortunate farewell, he remembered his station at the HSV, where Kompany played for two years from 2006 to 2008, but as a “warm”. “The time in Hamburg was not easy personally, but very nice at the same time,” he said emotionally. “My mother died during this time, my sister also had cancer. I was hurt, Achilles tendon tear, nine months. It was not easy, but I still got a lot of friends in Hamburg, a lot from the club, a lot of support. On Saturday there will be a probably emotional reunion for him.