Monday 31 August 2015 11:19, UK
"I'm telling you, I am going to lose," laughs the Manchester City captain. A strange thing to say for a man who has been a crucial part of a record breaking 10-game winning run.
"Don't expect anything phenomenal."
Really? That would make a change.
Maximum points so far this season. No goals conceded so far this season. Eight points ahead of the champions so far this season. All pretty phenomenal!
But this is one game Vincent Kompany doesn't mind losing. One match it's fine not to be phenomenal in.
The fixture he's talking about is HIM versus 100 KIDS!
Three years ago, Kompany used some of his Premier League wages to set up a grassroots football club for disadvantaged youngsters in the Brussels suburb where he grew up.
Vincent was born in Uccle after his father fled Zaire as a refugee. More hardship followed, not least his mother dying of cancer.
So when the millions arrived, he knew how to spend some of it. Quite a lot of it actually.
"We started from scratch", he says. "We had zero members, zero facilities, nothing."
How things have changed.
"Now we have a thousand members. I put 1,000 kids on a football pitch every weekend. It's really important to me."
BX Brussels is more than a football club - it's a "social sports project." The teams of all ages and all abilities probably won't win much...that doesn't matter. It's not the point. The point is giving local youngsters help and guidance and a feeling of belonging.
"I put 1,000 kids on a football pitch every weekend. It's really important to me."
Kompany says: "By European standards I came from a background with few opportunities. But my circumstances meant I had responsibilities from a young age. I had things I had to do.
"We are not here to hand things out to kids. We want to motivate them and make sure they get opportunities. We won't just give things to them, but we'll support them in whatever they want to do."
Kompany wants the current kids of his old streets to learn, with help and understanding, what he learned the hard way. He admits he can't give much time, not with the Premier League, the Champions League, the European Championships and the World Cup. But he gives his name and his support and, of course, his money.
And so to that game, in the hot Brussels sunshine.
One hundred children with 100 footballs dribbling towards Vincent at 100 miles an hour (well almost). A very scary sight even for one of the top defenders in the world.
About 50 goals were scored. Kompany did lose. But it was phenomenal.
