The father of Vincent Kompany, the captain of Manchester City and a star of the Belgian national football team, has been elected as Belgium´s first black mayor, in what has been described as a `historic` moment for the country. The election of Pierre Kompany, 71, a mechanical engineer born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the country´s first sub-Saharan-born bourgmestre was celebrated by his son in a video message in which he spoke three languages. Kompany fils, 32, who was born in the Brussels suburb of Uccle, and his younger brother, François, who is also a professional footballer in the Belgian leagues, spoke of their pride in French, Dutch and English in the...
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