Gab and Juls Meet: Vincent Kompany
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🗓️ 22 November 2022
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to another Gab and Jules meets. Jules, it's not often that we have the opportunity |
| 0:16.4 | to talk to somebody who was in the recently retired a legendary footballer in the Premier League, |
| 0:26.2 | who eventually made Premier League history. I now can look at it from the other side as well. |
| 0:32.6 | Now that he's a manager, I really take this in so many different directions beyond football. |
| 0:38.6 | Somebody actually thinks about this and doesn't speak in terms of cliches. |
| 0:43.4 | And that man of course is Vincent Company, I'm the manager of Barely Football Club. |
| 0:57.3 | That sounds good, doesn't it? It sounds really good, man. |
| 1:00.6 | Do you sometimes forget, like is it like something that's seeped into you, that like, |
| 1:05.2 | this is my job now? When you're out there, you're the boss. |
| 1:08.9 | No, I forget sometimes that I was a player. Yeah, that's how much you invest into the job. |
| 1:15.8 | So my life has just shifted from being a player to being a manager. |
| 1:21.6 | The things you do have is like, especially when your players are going through situations, |
| 1:25.6 | then you can relate, you can say, hey, I went through this or one of my coaches |
| 1:30.3 | because they've all played professional careers as well. They went through it and you relate. |
| 1:35.0 | But my life has just changed now. Yeah. I wrote a book with Janu Gaviali many years ago. |
| 1:42.2 | And he talked about the same thing about the transition. |
| 1:44.7 | And he was also a player manager for a while too with Chelsea. |
| 1:48.8 | And he said one of the most difficult things was that as a player, obviously, |
| 1:52.3 | as a leader, you can concern with your teammates and so on. |
| 1:56.0 | But ultimately, being a high level athlete, so much focus on yourself. |
| 2:01.4 | Am I eating right? Did I train well today? |
| 2:03.3 | What can I do better? Do I sleep well? I didn't even become a manager. |
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