Kompany is back in Bayern Munich three weeks after his fainting

Vin the morning of Tuesday, Kompany returned to the Sabener Strasse training centre, after, on 23 October (that is, less than three weeks ago), having lost his senses, while observing a training of Bayern Munich sub-23 team, and being transported urgently to a hospital unit, where he was diagnosed with irritation in the meninges.

According to information advanced by the German newspaper TZ, the 40-year-old coach arrived at the facility shortly after 10 a.m. (local time, 9 a.m. from mainland Portugal), and immediately went to his office, where he did not waste time turning on the computer, to begin to catch up on everything that has happened since then.

The former Belgian international had the opportunity to exchange words with Floribert Ngalula, one of his deputies, and with Christoph Freund, the Bavarian sports director. This, while observing, through the window of their preparations, the recovery training performed by players who were not called to their selections, for physical reasons, among them, Luis Díaz, former FC Porto.

The next few days will be re-adapted to the pace of work, and Vincent Kompany will be expected to sit on the substitute bench of the two German champions immediately after the break for international commitments, on 20 November, at the meeting of the 10th Bundesliga Day, before Cologne, at Allianz Arena.

During the period in which he was absent, it was up to the Englishman Aaron Danks, another of his 'right arm', to guide the team, in the matches against Friburg (victory, 1-2, for the Bundesliga), Magdeburg (victory, by 6-1, for the German Cup), Borussia Dortmund (matched by two balls, for the Bundesliga), Atlético de Madrid (victory, by 0-2, for the Champions League) and Mainz (victory, by 1-2, for the Bundesliga).

Doctors recommended absolute rest

Vincent Kompany's clinical condition will have, in part, been caused by the frantic pace of work to which he himself was forced, to which his father, Pierre Kompany, had already warned, about a year and a half ago, in a interview granted to the German tabloid Bild: “As a player, he was disciplined, but now, as a coach, he is even more demanding. He has a daily routine that hardly allows him to pause. Early in the morning, he is already in the training center and, at night, he is the last to leave”.

“Works on most days 18 hours a day and, on normal days, hardly sees the children (...). We taught our children not to react in anger, but through their performance. Their mother, however deceased, was very important. Ever since they started talking, I've been telling them very clearly: ‘They have to work much more than others to be successful’, he added.

The doctors responsible for your case advised absolute rest, orders that Bayern Munich heeded ‘religiously’, to the extent that Aaron Danks revealed that he received instructions not to answer his calls: “No, absolutely not. No, not at all. We are taking this very seriously. I have clear instructions from Max [Eberl, the general director of the club] and Christoph [Freund, the sports director] not to engage in dialogue, in the first place, and to keep Vince busy with nothing more than his health and spending time with his family.”.

“ We're taking this very seriously. We want him to rest and recover properly, so that when he returns, he is fully fit and can help us in the best way possible. We are being very strict here, and we are totally keeping football out of this,” he added.