Former Manchester City Captain, Vincent Kompany Retires From Football At Age 34

Former Manchester City captain and Legend, Vincent Kompany has retired from football at age 34, a year after leaving England for a player-manager position in native country Belgium. The former rock-solid center-back had a trophy-laden season during a 12-year spell at the Manchester Club.

The former Anderlecht man had over 340 appearances at the Etihad Stadium winning 4 Premier League titles, 2 FA Cups, 4 League Cups, 2 Community Shield. During his time at the Citizen.

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He scored 20 goals which sometimes are very crucial to his team including his wonder strike from 20 yards out against Leicester in the 2018-19 season which helped his side to the second back to back Premier League title under Pep Guardiola.

 

? 4 Premier League
? 4 League Cup
? 2 FA Cup
? 2 Community Shield

What a legend. pic.twitter.com/5TuGOMqtBN

— Manchester City (@ManCity) August 17, 2020

After announcing his retirement, he enumerated his list of best managers on Twitter of which Pep was mentioned.

 

Very thankful for this, Pep and Roberto! ?https://t.co/YeAsmUHOmt

— Vincent Kompany (@VincentKompany) August 12, 2019

After leaving Manchester City, he took up a player-manager role at Belgian club and he has a little story to tell about it on twitter

 

A club of this size, tradition and magnitude doesn’t weaken. Here’s to a fresh start, to become the best version of ourselves.

On to something special: https://t.co/NPnKkUpkXN pic.twitter.com/7h0WvpQi6d

— Vincent Kompany (@VincentKompany) May 28, 2020

He finally takes his leave and Football will always remember the name Vincent Kompany but he is not done yet, we might see him in the future in a manager role even at Manchester City.