{"id":2810,"date":"2026-10-28T21:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/bayern-coach-kompany-out-of-hospital-after-meningeal-irritation\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T21:16:35","slug":"bayern-coach-kompany-out-of-hospital-after-meningeal-irritation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/28\/bayern-coach-kompany-out-of-hospital-after-meningeal-irritation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern coach Kompany out of hospital after meningeal irritation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68.412575841147\">\n<p>Bayern Munich sporting director Max Eberl said Wednesday coach Vincent Kompany had been discharged from hospital, revealing the Belgian had been suffering from meningeal irritation.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kompany was rushed to hospital after collapsing on the training pitch in Munich on Friday, with Bayern saying the coach was suffering from a virus.\n<\/p>\n<p>Speaking minutes before Bayern\u2019s last-32 German Cup tie with Magdeburg, Eberl told ARD the doctors had determined the cause of the illness and had discharged the 40-year-old Kompany.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have identified the cause: it is a case of meningeal irritation, which is what triggered the incident last Friday,\u201d Eberl said.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Bayern said it was a matter of \u201cweeks, not days\u201d until Kompany returned to the dugout, with English assistant coach Aaron Danks taking over in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>After Sunday\u2019s 3-1 win at Freiburg, Danks said the coaching staff would avoid talking football with the ailing Kompany during his recovery. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-also\">\n<header>Related News<\/header>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe has now been allowed to go home, where he can continue his rehabilitation,\u201d Eberl said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor him, rehabilitation means rest and medication. I am very, very confident that he will be back on the touchline at 100 per cent very soon.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it is the best and most wonderful news for all of us,\u201d Eberl said.\n<\/p>\n<p>Kompany was visibly sick and walked with a limp during Bayern\u2019s 6-1 home win over RB Leipzig in mid-October. He was in doubt for their home clash with Arsenal four days later, but took to the dugout for the 2-2 draw, two days before his training-pitch collapse.\n<\/p>\n<p>AFP\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"14.852589641434\">\n<p> All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contact\">Contact: <a href=\"\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection#a5d1cdc0c0c1ccd1cad7e5d5d0cbc6cdcbc28bc6cac8\"> <span class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"8df9e5e8e8e9e4f9e2ffcdfdf8e3eee5e3eaa3eee2e0\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/span> <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Punch Newspapers &#8211; Latest News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bayern Munich sporting director Max Eberl said Wednesday coach Vincent Kompany had been discharged from hospital, revealing the Belgian had been suffering from meningeal irritation. Kompany was rushed to hospital&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}