By the end of my visit I would have been happy to see photographs of kittens or even some grandiloquent paintings by Julian Schnabel, anything not so proud of being self-referential and small time.
"There was many times my life was at risk ... but with the end of the war I am happy that there is now peace, " TP Mazembe's captain Tresor Mputu told CNN last year before his debut in the competition.