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Manchester City star Pierre Kompany’s dad elected Mayor

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany (left) and his father Pierre Kompany

Pierre Kompany, the father of Manchester City captain and Belgian international defender Vincent, became Belgium’s first black elected mayor yesterday after his party topped the poll in the Brussels suburb Ganshoren.

Pierre Kompany, 71, arrived in Belgium in 1975 as a refugee from what was then Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and has since been naturalised as a citizen and entered politics.

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