Aaron Danks to lead Bayern at the Metropolitano without Kompany
The 43-year-old Englishman takes charge in place of the Belgian, who is sidelined with meningitis, for Tuesday 3 November's Champions League clash.
Atlético de Madrid host Bayern at the Metropolitano this Tuesday, 3 November, in the fourth matchday of the Champions League league phase, and the German side will be without their head coach. Vincent Kompany is out with meningitis and will be away from the sidelines for quite some time, so Bayern's bench passes to Aaron Danks, according to Mundo Deportivo.
Danks, 43, is English and no newcomer to the coaching staff. He worked closely with Kompany at Anderlecht, where he was largely in charge of planning training sessions and set pieces. Before that he spent time at Birmingham City and West Bromwich Albion, and was an assistant at Aston Villa alongside Dean Smith, Steven Gerrard and Unai Emery. He also worked with Michael Carrick at Middlesbrough and joined Bayern in 2024.
His unusual profile includes a spell observing the Golden State Warriors, where he studied the work of Stephen Curry. From that experience he took two lessons: that individual development can always be pushed, even for the best, and that the human side, especially psychology, matters to understand how a coach connects with players.
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