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Wide hoops, green sleeves, white-trimmed cuffs and a printed Macron logo: this is the Espérance Sportive de Mostaganem shirt from the years of the climb. The chest sponsor, S.A.R.L MF Maghrebfer, a building materials group set up in 2022, pins it to the Ligue 2 Amateur spell: runners-up in the Centre-West group in 2022/23 and champions in 2023/24, with 23 wins in 30 games and 60 goals scored against 11 conceded. On 28 May 2024, Les Verts returned to Algeria’s Ligue 1 after 25 years away.

On the back, ESM at the nape and ABDEL at the hem, no number, with every sign of a supporter’s personalisation, like so many in the stands of the Mohamed Bensaïd, the ground the club shares with its red and white rival, WA Mostaganem. It is the shirt of a port city, the Pearl of the Mediterranean, whose fans call themselves El Hawata, the fishermen.

Here at Hoopster, this is the shirt from when Mostaganem started believing again.