After bowing out to the eventual pre-season champs Goodfellas, FDM are keeping their collective team spirit high.

“We managed to come back from a 2-1 deficit with only ten minutes left to play in the game,” explains Sofiane Lounas of his squad’s 3-2 win over winter finalists Sporting Yul. “All clichés aside, FDM is living proof that real team chemistry requires constant monitoring and individual adjustment.”

Already in their third year together, FDM will have to contend with one of the toughest set of squads (many of them former champs in their own right) ever assembled in any eight-squad C1 Division.

POTG: After playing his first two years as a defender, Salah Maamar’s move to midfield has turbocharged the squad’s offensive power.

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