Knife crime isn’t an issue that’s going to go away just because of repression and police action. Of course we need to support the forces, but it’s linked to prevention, and prevention often comes through education. Vincent Kompany Read Quote
Sometimes it goes your way, and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s part of what football is about. Vincent Kompany Read Quote
Being a successful team is maybe not enough. It’s about setting a standard, not just for ourselves but also for the youth that is coming through at Manchester City. Vincent Kompany Read Quote
Brussels is sort of a mini London in the sense that if you think about putting a football pitch in London, people laugh at you. There is just no space. Vincent Kompany Read Quote
The main thing for me is to consider sport at an equal level as you would consider mathematics or poetry at school. It’s another place where you can send your kids; they can have fun, but you can expect them to have good teachers, and you can expect them to progress. Vincent Kompany Read Quote
On any longball, people try to outjump each other. I don’t mind a big jump, but to be honest, the only thing you have to do is fight for the spot where the ball is going to land. Vincent Kompany Read Quote
When there’s pressure on the ball, you can go man-to-man on your striker; you’ve got the advantage because the ball pressure means it’ll be a difficult pass to play. Vincent Kompany Read Quote
It’s funny: one of the strongest parts of my game today is heading, and that only really developed when I started playing at the professional level. In the youth teams, all we did was passing. Vincent Kompany Read Quote
