Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany has been discharged from hospital and is “doing well” following his collapse at the club’s training ground.<\/p>\n
Kompany, 40, was rushed to hospital last Friday after taking ill as he watched the club’s second team train.<\/p>\n
The cause has been identified as meningeal irritation – an inflammation of the protective membrane surrounding the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n
“Given the circumstances, he’s doing well,” Max Eberl, the club’s board member for sports, told German broadcaster ARD on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“He was discharged from the hospital today. That is the biggest and best news for all of us.”<\/p>\n
No timeline has been set for Kompany’s return and Bayern said on Saturday that it would be a matter of “weeks, not days” until the former Manchester City defender returned to the dugout.<\/p>\n
English assistant coach Aaron Danks has taken over in Kompany’s absence and oversaw a 3-1 win at Freiburg on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Kompany had been nursing a virus in the days before his collapse and missed some team training sessions.<\/p>\n
The Belgian missed a pre-match news conference prior to Bayern’s Champions League game against Arsenal last Tuesday, but was subsequently on the touchline for the match on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“It’s a meningeal irritation that caused this incident on Friday. He will now rest and take medication,” said Eberl, speaking before Bayern’s German Cup tie against Magdeburg.<\/p>\n
“I am very confident that he will be back on the touchline, operating at 100% very soon.”<\/p>\n
Current leaders Bayern face title rivals Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich head coach Vincent Kompany has been discharged from hospital and is “doing well” following his collapse…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-898115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}