Vincent Kompany likes culinary variety. The FC Bayern coach is now also very enthusiastic about Bavarian cuisine.
Munich – Vincent Kompany delivers with this FC Bayern regularly hosts a football spectacle. The coach of FC Bayern can also become a volcano, as the recent DFB Cup game at Union Berlin showed. When Union received a second penalty, the Belgian stormed away from his dugout and complained to the referee team. Kompany received a yellow card for this.
With the hard-fought 3-2 win in the end, FC Bayern moved into the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup. Apparently, Kompany not only likes it emotionally on the pitch, but also in terms of culinary delights. In an interview with FC Bayern Magazine Säbener 51 Kompany gave information about his eating and drinking habits.
Kompany drinks a lot of coffee
So he drinks many cups of coffee throughout the day (“a few in the morning, a few in the afternoon and sometimes another later”) and his beloved smoothie in the morning (including beetroot juice, carrots, ginger, turmeric and lots of berries). When it comes to food, Kompany likes it spicy.
The FCB coach reveals: “Pepper is simply a must for me – and I can’t have a soup without pepper. I like herbs and aromas,” says Kompany: “That certainly has to do with my African roots. At home we had traditional Belgian cuisine, but also dishes from the Congo, my father’s homeland.”
One of his favorite dishes: pili-pili. “It’s a hot chili sauce that you eat with fufuf or pondu. This mix of Belgian and African traditions influenced me.” But the Bayern coach has now also gotten to know and love Bavarian specialties – from sausage salad to Kaiserschmarrn.
At the traditional Christmas dinner with the family, which usually includes lamb with rosemary, princess beans, Brussels sprouts and potato gratin, Kaiserschmarrn is served for the first time. However, Vincent Kompany cannot understand one thing in Bavaria at all. With a wink he says: “I really don’t know who ever came up with the idea of putting raisins in Kaiserschmarrn.”
