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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.

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