Vincent Kompany believes the title race is not over despite Bayern's six-point gap over Bayer Leverkusen
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00:00What can you say about that?
00:03I think our mentality is that we have equal points.
00:09We assume that Leverkusen wins everything.
00:12We don't just want to win everything, but we have to.
00:16That's the mentality.
00:18And I think that you bring your best performance at this moment.
00:22I've been lucky in these title races.
00:29I have a bit of experience in that.
00:33The best thing is that you set everything to zero.
00:36And that you just say, okay, Leverkusen wins eight games.
00:39That's where we start.
00:41That's why we have to win eight games.
00:45It's not a negative pressure.
00:50It's a good pressure.
00:52And normally, if you have a quality team,
00:56they get better at this moment.
00:58That's how we've always reacted this season.
01:00And that has to be our mentality for this last game.
01:04We have the same number of points.
01:07And they win everything.
01:09That's why we have to win everything.
01:11Start again.
01:14For the first question.
01:16It's a shame for Fonsi and for Upamecano
01:21that they can't be there in this important phase.
01:25That's my first thought.
01:28The second thought is that this season
01:31we didn't just have to get rid of Upamecano or Fonsi.
01:35That happened this season.
01:38But also other players.
01:41And we've always managed to do that.
01:44And hopefully that brings the group closer together.
01:49I think it's always important to react.
01:52Whether you lose sometimes or have a failure like the two of you.
01:57And the reaction is important for me.
02:00Basically, I don't have any excuses in my head.
02:04I just want us to win the next game and get even better.
02:08I know that it's always better when everyone is available.
02:12But we've been doing this for a long time
02:15without Stanisic or Ito.
02:18Those are the strange injuries
02:21where you can't do much.
02:24Or maybe a little bit.
02:27But you don't directly influence that.
02:31You have to focus on what you can control.
02:36And that's what we're doing now.
02:39We're in a position
02:42where there's no chance for us to take a step back.
02:46We're where we are.
02:49And we'll do everything to reach our goals.
03:02I think it's an important topic.
03:05Especially now.
03:12I think on the topic of racism
03:15it's almost impossible to take my recent years
03:20as the reality for the normal people.
03:24Because I live in a position
03:28where winning and losing affect so much
03:31how people treat you or look at you.
03:35It's not the life of everybody else.
03:38You know what I mean?
03:41But I think it's always an important topic.
03:48I'll say how I look at it.
03:51Because I'm trying to think of different ways to position it.
03:54I'm just going to say how I look at it.
03:57I think that's easier.
04:00When I grew up, and that's my reference point.
04:03My biggest reference point is when I grew up.
04:06The biggest frustration you had when you grew up
04:09was the lack of opportunity.
04:12I told the story a few times.
04:15My mother was blonde with blue eyes.
04:18So she was...
04:21I had this bold flag.
04:24My dad was a political refugee from Africa and everything else.
04:27But my mother explained to us
04:30she worked for one of the government organizations
04:33that helps people find work.
04:36If you don't have work, you go to that institution
04:39and they help you find work.
04:42She had all the data, all the numbers.
04:45She sat us down as kids.
04:48The information that for kids with a different background
04:51you have to work twice as hard to have the same job.
04:54That was my reality when I was younger.
04:57It was my mother with blonde hair, blue eyes
05:00that was telling us this and sitting us down and saying
05:03you're going to have to be tough in life.
05:06My position was never to be a victim
05:09but if I work twice as hard, then I'm going to be twice as good.
05:12That was my mentality.
05:15It's dangerous.
05:18If you have a lot of kids growing up with the feeling
05:21that they don't have the same opportunities
05:24you do create a situation where it's much more difficult.
05:27You do have a growing frustration.
05:30That's what I knew.
05:33The kids that I grew up with next to me
05:36where I grew up, it was more frustration
05:39due to lack of opportunities that created a detachment.
05:42Problems of society that were pointed with the finger
05:45in ways that didn't really explain the problem.
05:48Then you go to
05:51my later stages in my career
05:54in life
05:57where I've been much closer now to the top echelons
06:00where then you see that at the very top
06:03of every industry, every organization
06:06in the whole of Western Europe
06:09you have almost no diversity.
06:12The messages that you can
06:15look at internally.
06:18I'm giving an example.
06:21Whatever organization you have, look at the very top
06:24and you'll see very little diversity.
06:30You're at the very, very top?
06:33It's not a criticism.
06:36It's just an objective observation
06:39as to why
06:42when you then set an agenda
06:45to discuss big societal problems
06:48which all these big organizations do
06:51if you don't have a little bit of diversity
06:54inside decision-making organs
06:57you will never come to the right solutions for those people
07:00that you're trying to find a solution for.
07:03Racism, that's the way I've understood it.
07:06It's a lack of opportunities
07:09at the foundation of it.
07:12I know today this topic, I've mentioned it now
07:15and you'll find 1,500 directions on Twitter or whatever
07:18to explain what it is and what it isn't.
07:21It's not what I'm trying to do.
07:24I'm just trying to say, yes, it's an important topic
07:27but it's my experiences, that's all it is.
07:30I hope that we keep making steps
07:33in the right directions
07:36and when there's forces trying to pull us in the wrong direction
07:39that we have the same forces to go forward
07:42and try.