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Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany has followed up on his statement on racism in football that unexpectedly went viral yesterday.<\/a> Kompany displayed visible signs of discomfort answering in German during a post-match press conference following Bayern\u2019s Bundesliga victory over Eintracht Frankfurt.<\/a> Eventually, the former Belgian international had to switch to English.\u00a0<\/p>\n Vincent Kompany begins in German<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I said wasn\u2019t something I discussed beforehand with other people,\u201d Kompany said upon fielding the first question about his previous statement at the pre-match press conference. \u201cIt was a totally spontaneous moment and I didn\u2019t really follow [the reaction]. It related to feelings that I\u2019ve often had and will certainly have in the future.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it serves any of us if I keep talking about it over the next days,\u201d Kompany continued. \u201cI said everything I needed to say in this moment. And I hope that doors [to dialogue] remain open, so that\u2026.it\u2019s difficult to discuss this topic in German. I just hope that doors [to dialogue] remain open so that we can all grow and not just argue.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was something that I spoke about from the heart,\u201d Kompany went on, uncertain as to whether he wished to use the German word \u201cKampf\u201d (\u201cfight\u201d) or the similar sounding English word \u201ccamp\u201d. \u201cIn the final analysis, I don\u2019t want it to be about people [separating] into camps and defending the camp.\u201c<\/p>\n Kompany switches to English<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want that one camp is strengthened by this,\u201d Kompany continued upon switching languages mid-sentence. \u201cI would like to see us come together through something like this, if that makes sense. That\u2019s my hope for the future. I don\u2019t want to continue adding to this.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of this needs some breathing space in order to allow us to come together,\u201d Kompany concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany has followed up on his statement on racism in football that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-780146","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116110653160485547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}