"Get your diploma and don't forget to have fun"

OTHER High cycling visit yesterday at Neerpede, Remco Evenepoel visited the U14 and U15 of RSC Anderlecht. He was also joined by Yari Verschaeren. A few years ago both youngster started their first training day together at Purple & White.


"Make sure you get a diploma and that you enjoy what you do," Evenepoel gave the children good advice. "As a footballer and now also as a cyclist, I enjoyed a lot of victories. You are glorified, everyone suddenly finds you the best. But the most important thing is losing! Because you can learn the best lessons from a defeat. At those moments you learn what winning is. ”

Yari Verschaeren

Later in the afternoon, Verschaeren also joined them, both youngsters still have a good friendship: “My first training day at Anderlecht was also the first day of Yari Verschaeren at Anderlecht. Our friendship has grown there. ”

In any case, Verschaeren did not send his friend home empty-handed and gave him a shirt with a jersey number: “We can be proud of his victories, his European and World titles. I think he will definitely be the number 1 in the world ”, Verschaeren had words of praise for his cycling friend.