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Vincent Kompany | How to captain your team | Pro soccer tips
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you know I don't think I became a
captain once I got given the armband you
know in my first season when I went to
sign for city and you know bear in mind
that I was never really I was never
really bought as a star player or
something you know but I've always had
the same attitude I've always believed
in my own qualities I've never really
been shy or thought of another playing
as being another player as being more
than me and I think way before I even
got the armband the thing that I had
already disrelated ship with the team
where they would listen if I was putting
something forward and obviously at that
time I think it was Carlos Tevez in
collar Tory we were captain and I'd been
a bit longer than them at the club so I
kind of knew how things were running and
I was just always helping them kind of
as a second and so it was very natural
for me when I got the captaincy because
since as young as I remember playing
football when I was six I've always kind
of been this type of person in the
energy
answering a lot of questions sometimes
that why people already know the answer
on can we have an extra day off next
week can you please ask the manager you
go and ask the manager you know that the
manager is going to tell you no but then
you kind of get back you ask the manager
and he said no and this how you keep
people happy
you know keep organizing stuff for the
team trying to make sure that probably
nobody's forgotten as well you know that
we give the same attention to everyone
but more than anything else is to try
and be a good player for the team
you have the team from Patrick Vieira
the under-21 and quite a lot he comes
and ask us and the older players in our
team to go and talk to the young players
and give them some advice which will
always happily do it some you know I
think it's a good work environment
because everyone is trying always to
improve each other we train every day
which when really hard I mean when when
we're out on the pitch if there's a game
five against five or whatever kind of
game we play it's competitive there's a
lot of challenges and it's almost weird
because it's it's almost like the game
that we play the weekend doesn't really
matter it's about the game that we play
an hour we need to win it and if if
you're in the losing team there's a lot
of people in a bad mood so I hope I
think it's half top football should be
bro competitive when I was a kid 1718 as
I told you I was still the same
personality so I came into the dressing
room of other time and electon I had
very strong opinions and I was you know
not really shy to say anything and if
there was a group meeting I was a kid
standing up and saying no it should be
this way and then later on you realize
you say might have might have been
completely saying the wrong things back
in the days and that that's how you
learn I think and obviously I've been
lucky to share the dressing room with
guys like Patrick Vieira with other
unlucky was then Zetterberg and the
actual manager today busines Kazi and
you know I've learned a lot from those
guys but the main thing is be come take
your time and when you say something
make it count
yeah shout on the pitch a lot all the
time I shout before we go on the pitch
but if I need to say something you know
when you shout it's more to like Johar
will do it all day like come on guys
let's go and and it's mortify the guys
up so we got a few guys in the team who
can do that really well that's a really
important role I believe but um there's
moments where you have to bring a
message across and when you have to
bring a message across I think you
should become well there's two things in
it when things aren't going well on the
pitch first of all you need to try and
play better and then you know you need
to make sure that you make the team
believe that it's not over yet so yeah
you have to be more vocal than but I
think we have some great players in the
team to do like James Milner if we lose
what it's 4 or 5 mil will be the first
one shouting like we need to keep going
and then run more and and and the team
does pick it up and then the team does
raises it level so the first is the
attitude in a second of course you know
show with you know you're you're you
know shout it out that you're gonna you
know do it better
i justified on the pitch yet you need to
be the first in then and to calm it down
yeah kind of help the referee out
sometimes because it's not always easy
for them but depending on as well it's
sometimes defending your teammates
because they might be picked on by
another team and some clever experienced
team try and take advantage of you like
on you mentally so I'll always be in
there the first and you know make sure
that the voice of our team is being
heard was the referee or making sure
that you know the smaller players on the
team are being protected
