Jacob Kelebeng – Minister of Sports and Arts "We are very happy at the ministry. For the second time, we have made it to AFCON and we are very happy. This is what we want from the boys. If you invest in sports, this will be the result. If you look at the team, they have been together for around five or six years. We also have four or five players in the team playing abroad. Their experience and international experience are very important to the team. This is why we say we need to develop more talent and export more talent. The 2012 squad had around eight years together and had a couple of youngsters then with Ofentse Nato and Mogakolodi Ngele who gelled well with the senior players. When these players play together for a long time, results come. You can see that in our team there is talent. What is necessary is the technical skills that are developed at developmental stages. We are very happy. What is necessary is for us as the ministry to support the national team, we need to sit down and I have yet to appreciate the wellbeing of our national team athletes, not only football but also sports as a whole. We need to appreciate them so that we reward them accordingly so that we can have better results in sports."
Tuelo Serufho – CEO, Botswana National Olympic Committee "We are very happy. It has been a long time coming. The last time was in 2012 and 12 years later we have made the qualification. Well, it has been a good year and that I think is quite fundamental because it was a year of many firsts and many great achievements. From the first Olympic gold medal with Letsile, the first silver medal in the 4x400m men's relay at the Olympics and Ross Branch winning the World Rally-Raid Championship. Let us not forget the Mares for qualifying back-to-back for the WAFCON something that has never been done before. The Zebras just put the icing on the cake. So we are very happy, it has been a good year and very kind to our country. We only hope for more in the future."
