Sven’s media interaction verbatism

Chipolopolo Coach Sven Vandenbroeck held a rare media interaction at Garden Court Hotel on Sunday, December 9, 2018 with the journalists given carte blanche to ask all the questions nibbling at the back of their minds.

Regrettably some of the issues raised were blown out of proportion.

The FAZ media team has been compelled to clear the air through the publication of the verbatim account of the coach’s media interaction.

DESMOND KATONGO:

Welcome everyone, we have brought the coach here so that he can have some form of interaction with the press, especially with the developments concerning the senior national team, failure to qualify, the coach’s stay in Zambia and a couple of questions.

How do you (Sven) look at Zambian football in general and if provided an opportunity if you would want to stay longer than what is there. It is an overview, you have been with these players for a long period, and you started the qualifiers on some sought of a difficult period, your relationship with the players that is what my colleagues would be much more interested in and how you look at Zambian football.

SV: Yes I came in in first week of July with no background, so the first step was to get to know the local league, see the level, see how they play, the systems they play, what is the culture of football in the country and then the first thing is to make a choice how you want to play. What I noticed in the league is that there is certainly offensive play, quite some talent and technical skills and so quite fast I had the idea to play football on the ground like we played in the previous games.

My concern was that most of the defenders are foreigners in the league that is what is blocking a lot of young guys but also me in my pick for defenders. I was quite certain that the guys from abroad (foreign based) would help me adding the build up from behind to get us in the position to use our technical skills upfront. When I saw the league for five to six weeks, I went to Europe to see some guys and I also was lucky that TP Mazembe had their camp in Ndola so I could see all the players without having to travel out of the country.

I have to say from the start I had a good relationship with everyone, a good feeling even until now. I will give an example many people were warning me for some guys and I will mention some names, Kalaba (Rianford) for example, sometimes Fashion Sakala, that he can be selfish but until now and Kalaba did not even play all the games, he was on the bench, his behaviour was good, no complaining. We did not face too much leaks maybe the first two games, the composition of the team was out before it was sent to CAF, one and half hours before the game, I think we could manage to sort the problem. So the relationship with them is good.

We have a group on whatsup where we communicate with each other. For example the picture of Chama (Clatous) where a fan said if you give me your shirt, I will give you my wife. So the reactions came like first check the wife before you accept the offer, because you never know what you are accepting. So the relationship is quite good, we even laugh with the things we communicate in that group. Everyone is participating, there is not one who is never involved in those moments, we always have some guys more others less, we have introvert and extrovert people. You cannot push people to talk but everyone is involved. The relationship with everyone is good and I know they will not tell you the truth if they do not play, they will always want to play more and those who play are always a little happier than the other ones. I know but I do not feel that they are jealous on each other that they are putting a knife on someone’s back.

Until now I had group that wanted to work and committed, unfortunately we did not get the results that we wanted. You can say we introduced GPS, we introduced some new technology, we had a good group, everyone was committed, and everyone was training and working hard. But the result was not there. So in the end that is where we come to a point where everyone will judge us and me especially. I do not have a problem when they judge me but I have a problem that sometimes they judge me just on the result, there is much more than the result. I think the way we started to play in September until October, you saw changes, most of the guys are happy with those changes because some guys come from Europe, they play that way and the new guys want to pick up the new way. The South African based players are a little in-between. You can say that we started with a handicap to start with zero points when I stepped in. In the end I was confident enough to say we can manage, so for us it was a disappointment to not qualify.

For the future I asked my analyst, I gave him a big task because we have a few months until March to go through some analytic to watch the games in an analytical way, statistics and I will do the same on philosophy and the behaviour of players. We will sit together to analyse and then we will make choices for the future because AFCON 2021 is one and half years away. I have to make some choices and not only choices based on good or bad, but based on who is fitting in the plan, who can still have progression in the way we play, who can still perform in 2021, so there are a lot of things to think about.

And yes if you ask me, do I want to continue, I say for sure yes, because I see potential, I see commitment, I see also the ambition from the federation to make changes, they allowed me to bring GPS, they allowed me to introduce a new style and even backed me up in Mozambique after losing. So I feel that everyone is involved in making steps forward because I think and that is the main road we take. I know we need to qualify and we need results but there is a difference between African football and going to the World Cup and I think that it was quite obvious in the FIFA World Cup 2018 in Russia where no African team qualified to the next stage that in the way the African teams were playing. I do not consider Morocco because they were in a tough group, where they played really good games, they were close to beat Spain and Portugal. We need to bring much more football than what we are doing now on the African continent.

I also go back to the FIFA report made after the World Cup. They went through a few things for example the total distance running was decreased by 2% but the total sprint activity was up by 40% compared to the World Cup 2014. It was not the 50 metre runs but the 10-15 metres and when you going to statistics, all the African teams were high scoring on high intensity runs of long distances. That means either you play very low or you have to run to cover mistakes or your three strikers are just upfront and you make…and it comes back in compactness, all the teams that qualified after the Group Stage, they had high score in compactness and passes in the last 30 metres and they had a high score on parking and parking is giving a pass when you eliminate someone.

Yesterday (Saturday) I asked my goalkeeper next to me to count for me how many passes the central defenders for U20s were playing into midfield by eliminating a striker? And the first half it was seven, second half it was three. That is our problem at this time, we have a lot of offensive skills but from the back we need to find a solution to get into the midfield.

(INTERUPTION BY JOURNALIST: Darious Kapembwa (The Mast) On the issue of foreign defenders, in an event that you are given a longer contract up to 2022 what would you want the federation to do in order to allow more local players?)
SV: I have some ideas in my head but I do not know if the law allows us to make these changes. I know some countries have rules like maximum of three foreign players, maybe it is better to say you need to have three local U20s because if you look at our U20s there is only one playing in the local league. Then you have Chilufya (Edward) playing in Sweden and Lameck Banda is travelling between South Africa and trials in Europe and the only one is Benson Kolala. All the rest are playing in under-teams or second division.

I think we have to expose them a little faster when possible in the Super League. If you watched the South African team, they are playing in Pirates and other big teams, they are in the first team squads, playing most of the time so the gap already in U20 has started to grow. I think if you take the average of the local league teams it is quite high so maybe we can have a quota of a minimum of two under-20s in the squad. If you take one, another one has to come in, I think that is even a better solution that limiting the foreigners.

Another concern is that you have more choices in some positions and less on some. Maybe the grassroots can be developed so that we can have all positions well occupied in the future.
(JOURNALIST CHIPS IN: Have you sold your ideas to the powers that be?)
SV: We had a technical committee 10 days ago. They asked me to give them an opinion about a few things, I am writing some few things down, my opinion. It is a guideline, I think what I feel around me is if the federation wants to make steps that some things can be easily done, some things need more resources and time but step by step you have to start working in a good way. I go back to France, France was not qualified for the 1994 World Cup and the European championship in 1996 and then they started something they called Education for Football in schools and suddenly they became world champions four and six years later. So sometimes you have to go through a bad period to recognize what you need to do to make a plan for a four year project and get results in four years.
JOURNALIST (DARIOUS): Coach Do you feel you inherited a poisoned chalice?

SV: I think that is too easy to say but I think the moment I stepped in was not the best moment. I think there were some challenges going on what maybe you cannot solve in a few weeks because you know a FIFA period is only 10 days even in Guinea Bissau we had only two days before the game so time was short. I do not want to say it was poisoned but for myself I can recognize that it was not easy period to step in. Then you make choices, I know my contract was for nine months to qualify the team but even though we qualified and we still have something coming up and you need the results. So I say I have to build up something or try to make something of it so that even when we qualify we can have a solid performance during the AFCON. We all know that it did not work out but I am convinced that what we started is in a good way to continue for the future.

DK: The structures, you look at the U20 playing in the Cosafa tournament, the message we are getting here is that if we have to get somewhere the structures have to be strong. Maybe U17, U15, U10 something that you have in Europe that we do not have here. When you look at our structures, what story do they tell? Do you have players that can make it up to that level, at some point you invited players from the U17 and U20 to train with the senior team.

SV: I wrote this in my notes, I think there is a big gap between U17 and U20. I think unofficially you have to make a team in-between to follow up. There should be U15, U17 and U20. We need an U16 and U18 which would be a good start. If you look at the current U20s, my opinion is that they make good team performances, if you go into the individuals I can say, I do not see someone really ready to make it to the first team. You have some guys with potential, some flair, but not fully ready otherwise they would make every game the difference for U20 Cosafa especially when you play a little bit smaller teams like Malawi and other teams. I am curious for the semis and hopefully the final when they come a little stronger (U20 Cosafa) that they can show me a little bit more. The team performance is good, they are playing compact, the defence is solid, sometimes a little shaky on the ball and that is always something that comes back, maybe solid in the back to defend but on the ball I think we need better players through the fullsystem.

DARIOUS: After failing to qualify, you have explained your vision and what you think could have been done right. There was also a general outcry out there that you failed maybe because you did not have an experienced assistant to help you in some instances? Did you have a capable assistant?

SV: Yes I have. Chintu (Kampamba) was set up as a physical coach, after a few local camps, my impression was that physical side of his knowledge was not adequate to what we were looking for. But he is a good field coach and he is committed, so I decided to take him as assistant coach and I think he does it well. My thinking is that if I take in an experienced coach what is an experienced coach? Am I? Is someone who did 300 games in the local league experienced on the international level? That is my first concern. Secondly every coach is involved in a club so if I ask him to go and watch a game, he is not available because he has his team, so in the end I have to do it myself. Thirdly I asked because I spoke to about five to six coaches, my first question was, can you work with the computer? Everyone told me no. but you can laugh but is part of the job. Then you can tell me take a local coach just to sit next to you and give you some advice. The only advantage they can have is they can maybe go deeper into the mind of a Zambian because they know them better, they know them for a longer period. At that moment when I stepped in, the only advantage that I saw was that.

Two weeks ago I did the coaching seminar where I spoke about everything we do, it was a five hour session with one hour breaks. I talked about GPS, I talked about the mental exercise, I talked about many things. When I saw that after that session, many coaches called me to have more information then I felt like I am an instructor, so even when I get an experienced coach I still have to instruct or teach them a few things. I do not want to speak bad about them because when I see some coaches they are doing a good job, Beston Chambeshi with Nkana when he came in until now the team went up every week and got second place and qualified for Champions League, I hope they will do well against Simba.

You can see that Zesco is trying to play continental football on the ball from the back. I think the philosophy of Green Buffaloes to play is good these are good teams. Even when I saw the game against Al Marreikh (GBFC) they switched from a 4-3-3 to a 3-5-2 to suddenly after an hour to surprise the opponent those are good things. You have some good coaches but coach education is not coming to a class and only give a training session. There is much more in modern football. The Germans went to the World Cup with more technical bench members than players.

JOURNALIST: Do you think you have enough people around you to help you?

SV: I would like to have more, it is good you have asked this question because it will be in my notes. One of my requests is that I would like to have a scout in Ndola and another in Lusaka because I cannot spread myself in nine games. So I would like to pick some games at the weekend to watch and I would like to have someone next to me to cover the other games. I will tell him which games and which players then you can cover much more. That is also part of the technical bench. Secondly we have GPS, I have now taught Chintu how to read and interpret GPS data. In the end we are busy with football matters on the pitch, we do not always have the time to go deep into it, maybe someone coming in using GPS even in clubs. It is expensive not all clubs van afford it, maybe we can use our system to go round all the clubs to do physical tests and we will know the level of fitness of each player. If you make the same test for every club, you can even compare between all the clubs.

As a coach of the national team, you can have an overview to see if this one is okay or you need to work on recovery strategy or endurance part, you can go much more into individuals because what you see now is…if you do a physical test, there is s gap between the Europe based players, South Africa and the locals. We do an easy test, it starts at 8 KM/h they run up and down for four times and then they have a five second break. Afterwards on the computer you can see graphics of the heartbeat and the speed, the speed is logic and test is protocol because it goes up at every stage. So the blue line of the speed goes up, it increases step by step (Demonstrates the difference in recovery for players).

It is a different story, this is physical, it does not speak about eager to play. You can be in a bad condition but if your mind says I want to play you can still play. Someone that is fit but does not have the mind-set and is hungry to play can play bad games. It is only a one part, if you can be eager and show this graphic then you are the best. I see my job as getting results and qualifying for some tournament but underneath I think there is much more work to bring the general level maybe here (upwards) to a higher level to get structural success. I do not want to be hard on Zambia, you won the AFCON once, from that moment first round and not qualified and not qualified. I do not know the results before 2012 if there was a final and semi final somewhere. JOURNALIST INTERJECTS: (Two finals and a semi-final in 1992 and 1996).

SV: So that is every 20 years, 1974 and 1994 and 2012. I think the league is not bad if you compare it to other countries, you see football, go to Cameroon or other countries you only see war in the air. I think we can still make huge steps because I think even on the African continent you know that Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco and South Africa are up there then you have the middle part where Zambia is and then you have some lower countries. If you want to compete in your own continent, you have to be aware that the gap with the top counties has to be reduced and I think these things can help us reduce the gap.

QUESTIONS: (Shamoama Musonda-Times of Zambia): How long do you think they should give you to impart your ideas?

SV: There is no answer. I will return the question you have a class of 20 students and I explain one plus one equals two. Will everyone understand immediately? The smart guys yes, but you also have some slower guys. It depends on how I explain things or how fast learners some guys are and sometimes intellect in football does not mean you have to score high in school. Insight in positioning is not language it is not mathematics is awareness.
DARIOUS: In an event that they asked you to stay, how long do you want?

SV: I think logic would say go until the World Cup 2022. In December 2022, so that is four years. I think that is a logic project, there are two AFCONS, the first one you can already scratch from the agenda, unfortunately. There is Under-23 AFCON next year and Olympics I think that is a beautiful project to work, although I will not step in choices and techniques but I will be there to see what is happening because we have not qualified for AFCON 2019. Maybe it is not bad to push some U23s from that squad in my team to be sure we have a very strong competitive team. That can be an option but something to discuss with the coach of U23. Maybe not everyone, but if look at our list, Mwepu (Enock), Patson (Daka), Sakala (Fashion), Banda (Emmanuel), Shonga (Justin) is 22, Phiri (Salulani) is 22 and Charles Muntanga as a goalkeeper. I think you have eight or nine who can still play for U23. It can be an option to push some guys in the qualifiers in AFCON in November.
DK: I will take final questions

SAM LUKHANDA (Times of Zambia): You have watched those players you mentioned, have they developed from the previous U20?

SV: I saw the U20s (2017), I saw some games of the AFCON and also saw some games from the World Cup. Not enough if you see the talent, I do not think they have developed progressively in balance with what they should be and I think one of the issues is, going abroad is good, but you still need to play. And you see a lot of guys not playing, Patson on the bench, five minutes not on the bench. Mwepu most of the games he can have his minutes, Sakala (Fashion) and Banda (Emmauel). Banda had a good period before we played Mozambique, now he is not in the squad anymore, it is up and down. I come back to what I said before the Mozambique game, it is all here (mind).

The culture of Zambia is that we are all very kind and we, I will exclude myself, the Zambians are very nice, kind, warm people, they do not like to hurt someone. The second thing is that hierarchy is very important here such that if you are with the technical bench, no one will stand up to get his food before I go. But we are all humans, we are all together, we are one team. If there is one problem, the other one has to solve it, it is not his so this one can solve it. It does not work like that in a football team. Breaking some things mentally is important to build the team but getting mentally stronger to survive abroad when we go is also an issue. Sunzu (Stoppilla) did a few years when he went to France, he was in Lille was on the bench, then he was away and came back then started playing.

The three Congo based players can go back to Ndola every time they have a day off, the South Africans that is okay but all the rest in Europe, they are in problems. So I think lacking game time has blocked their progress. I do not want to step in their career but it is an advice to go alone to make minutes. Brian Mwila went to Altach, his first three weeks were great, he scored, he played and suddenly he goes down, maybe it is the dark, the cold, the snow. It is the first three weeks when you are motivated because you are in a new environment, you want to show yourself then suddenly. I do not say it is true but maybe. There is a reason why we cannot take a first 11 spot and hold it for a few games and that is blocking progress.

QUESTION (MICHAEL MIYOBA-DAILY NATION): Some fans described you as an average coach who failed to read the game. Did those negative remarks affect you in anyway?

SV: If it affects you, you do not have to become a coach. So no, I talk to you but I do not read what you write. He (Desmond Katongo) is reading what you are writing and correcting me and sometimes people make some pictures and they send me some titles and I say ahh. But no. everyone can judge me, it was an issue before you came in and I said most of the people just judge me on results because they do not see what we are doing underneath, you can say that maybe sometimes take long to make changes. In Namibia we were 1-0 down I changed we came back and scored and the last 15 minutes. Even in Mozambique we were 1-0 down we changed and we put pushed, we did not score. I think the changes we did were good to change the game. You are right when we do not get the result there are always negative comments, even if we win there are negative people. So no, I do not get frustrated or affected by those people.

SHAMAOMA: Do you believe in our local league that we are doing the right things to produce the kind of players that you need?

SV: I do not think you only have to look at the Super League teams, you also have to look at the grassroots because it is still four years. If you look at the average age of the local teams. Let us say we took all the foreigners out then it is already 40% list is gone, then 60% remains. Then you go to look at age then you can erase another 40% so 20%. From the 20% that remains how much percentage can make it to the highest level, it is a few ones, and it is the same in grassroots. You start with a 100 then only two will make it to the first team. So if you just go with numbers, your number is limited. I think you have to raise the numbers, it starts with investments and it is late now to prepare the World Cup because in four years, you will not set up a grassroots program to provide you high performing players, that is already late.

The main thing is try to get the general level of the clubs higher by improving on physical, recovery departments. I think some clubs try to play football like Zesco, Nkana is trying but sometimes playing more from second ball through the run of Ronald Kampamba and Green Buffaloes. For I have a question about Green Eagles, they play 4-4-2 and they take in Chaloba who is a real number 10 then what are you going to do with him? Are you going to put him on the wing? Or you are going to change the system? That is interesting to see this year, also for the player’s development because he was in my pool of 30 local guys.

Sometimes the guy has to make good choices as well, like going abroad, going abroad to a team where you can play and not choosing for the most money. That is why I am hoping in the under-20 Lameck Banda will make a good decision. He is at Sundowns, he was on loan to Zesco, and last year he played a lot of games, this year maybe just four or five. In the end you do not play, then you go on trials in Turkey and I hear he was somewhere else. But in the end where is the development? Then in the end I hear rumours that he was on trial in two clubs, they are telling me he has signed for Beskitas but you did not play much for one year but one full game and a few ones. You are not a basic 11 at your own club, why a top team in Turkey that is competing for the first spot will take you, I do not know? Are you signing to be on the bench or signing for good money and to survive a few years? Or you are making a decision and you are 20 years for your career and sign for a lower club in Turkey to play and after two years go to Beskitas. I think they will kill him when he signs in Beskitas that is my opinion.

I think we can support teams by giving our tools to them or they can use our tools to make more specific individual programs for players. I think another thing is MEDICAL in clubs because we know some guys in my team are suffering already three months in injury and when we release them they are in a better shape than when they came in. I do not talk about physically but it is about some pains in joints and muscles that in three months you get operated on your meniscus and you are back on the pitch. So a muscle injury if you do it well after three weeks, you should be fit. So I think that is also an issue where we can make a lot of progress. If you let them play always injured, they play at 80%. When make my squad and in beginning you do not know, then they come in

(INTERJECTION: DARIOUS)
QUESTION: There has been one concern about Kennedy Mweene not having a successor. Looking at Toaster Nsabata and Charles Muntanga looking at the statistics how wide is your net?

SV: My net, you mean how many goalkeepers I can find? I think the issue you bring about the goalkeeper, you can also find the same problem on the pitch. You have some older guys and you have some younger guys. In between there is nothing. The old guys they are still smart and see things faster than the young guys but physically they cannot always bring it for 90 minutes. So it is a general issue that the gap between the older guys and the youngsters is big and I come also in hierarchy. There is no fluent hierarchy in the team, it is this or it is this. For the goalkeepers, if you look at Mweene’s statistics the last three games have not been good. The thing is he has personality, he was my captain because he is one of the guys who is taking initiative, who can stand up when it becomes tough to shout and bring life to say I am here let us survive.

For example Sunzu when we had a walk on the day before the game here at home against Guinea Bissau he was walking behind. I told him you are tall, you are walking behind to just overlook everyone or you want to walk upfront so that everyone can see you and follow you and that leadership or pacifist. We have too many guys in pacifist, I give the example of Sunzu, just as an example of a player. We need more guys who take initiative, not only on the pitch but also outside of the pitch because the group has to take own decisions sometimes on the pitch. You have 60, 000 people and cannot shout, sometimes I cannot play PlayStation neither to make them make good decisions. So they have to make their own decisions inside the pitch every situation is different. There is a big gap, we have goalkeepers with potential and maybe we have to change the big gap of 34, 24 and 21. Maybe there is need of someone in between.

Every new guy who comes in the national team, you can ask, is he ready? If you take a youngster say of 21, let me say I take Chilufya (Edward) with us in the next game, is he ready? Maybe he is eager to play the first two times and he will perform but he is playing above his qualities then he goes down to his normal level. So he will never show. I am sure that we have to find a solution.

QUESTION: What about the issue of NUTRITION?

SV: When I came in there was no structure, not on nutrition, not on treatment, not on day programs, a little bit a day-to-day program. What we have now is when the players come in, the doctor needs to check them one-by-one, muscles, joints but also mental state (mind). Sometimes they come with a family issue and I know to me they will not say because if they say it to me then they think I will think they are not fine and cannot play. I had to find someone in between who is confident enough to trust. He does not have to tell me everything, only the most critical information which can raise a problem or where I can intervene to solve a problem. Secondly I obliged the medical staff to send menus to the hotels when we travel.

The first time what I noticed was we arrive in a hotel and suddenly on Sunday evening he has tell the chef that tomorrow for breakfast we want this and this. But if you tell him at 23:00 hours, in the morning it is not there. We had to be proactive and that is again not being passive and solve something when it pops up, you have to be proactive.

Nutrition is one of those things. In my notes I will ask for nutritionist because the Doctor has a general knowledge about it but not that deep. Because Sunzu is 1.95 metres and has 90 kilograms, he eats the same thing as Shonga or Chama who is 1.65 metres with 55 kilograms. No! So you are have to watch not only what they are eating but also the quantity of what they eat. It goes much further than only serving pasta with some chicken, it is also depending on, today we had a hot session so maybe he needs to take in more calories than we do just a recovery session.

For example when we travelled to Guinea Bissau, we had a 10 hour flight, I said what are we going to do? Is there food on the plane? I do not know was the answer. I said if you don’t know be sure. Because if you travel 10 hours and you just give a box with some rice and a small piece of chicken, Sunzu after two hours is hungry so please make boxes and after four hours we were taking our boxes and all the rest of the passengers were wondering.

That is nutrition that is the story that many things had to be implemented. I had to say we had big steps from September until now on the medical part also on the organization part because for Namibia we travelled in three different batches.
Many things had to be re-adjusted, improved, we made a lot of steps. I do not want to say that is the reason we did not qualify but for sure these things help to have a bigger chance to qualify. I think for the future we made a better structure we can still improve on some things that allow us to work in better conditions to get better results. For the local guys, this is new, they were not aware of GPS, they were struggling how to wear it because it is a bra, if you bring girls they will wear it properly but for them it was what is this? I had to explain what it does, I had to give them examples what we were measuring with it.

We do not only measure heart rate and speed but we can also see if someone is limping. So when someone comes and tells the doctor I am fully fit but my Belgian coach goes deep and sees that this guy is limping, he finds the problem within five minutes. They cannot lie anymore. In the beginning they thought we were laughing, I could even see when they were running on the pitch. If we play 11 versus 11 and I ask my right winger to make some runs into a special zone after 10 minutes I tell him, how many times did you run? He will tell me 20 times coach and I will tell him only once. Numbers do not lie anymore. In the beginning it is hard and maybe I underestimated that part but now I know mentally we are not the strongest, maybe these numbers show there are some missing things. Maybe I should have introduced slowly.

We sent video clips of the local camps to the coaches so that they can see what we do in local camps. If they can ask me, say this exercise, why? How they can repeat the exercise. We sent from the local games when I see things happening, we can cut clips of individuals not tactically because I do not want to interfere with tactics, I cannot do that. But we keep that image in the philosophy of the national team when they come in. two weeks ago, you played this game, but in the national team we want it this way.

For example if we see that someone is eager when he has the ball but not when the opponent has the ball then weshow him images how he is defending and that hard because you see yourself. In the head he is thinking that he is giving everything but in the image he sees himself like. We also make images of our training sessions, tactically and we can show that, look your position now is not good, if you compare it with the defence line, you are going over the line. We are doing a lot of things underneath the 1-0 loss against Mozambique that probably in the longer future will pay off.

DK: Thank you and thank you everyone for coming.

NOTE: SV is the abbreviation for Sven Vandenbroeck while DK is for Desmond Katongo.