Men's Soccer | 10/25/2018 2:34:00 PM

MONTREAL -- Marc Mounicot was named coach of the year and four other members of his McGill University men's soccer team were selected as conference all-stars, in an announcement made Thursday, by the Réseau du sport étudiant du Québec.

Mehdi Ibn-Brahim, a junior from Montreal, and sophomore Ramzi Saim of Ile-Bizard, Que., were voted to the RSEQ first team, while two freshmen -- Florian Bettelli, a native of France, and Chris Flores, who hails from St. Hubert, Que., -- both merited a berth on the second squad in addition to being voted to the RSEQ all-rookie team.

Ibn-Brahim, a speedy, 5-foot-7, 160-pound striker, tied for third in the league scoring race with six points in 12 games. He earned points on 33 per cent of the team's goals. The 22-year-old mathematics junior scored four times to tie for sixth among league leaders in that department.

Saim, a 6-foot-1. 183-pound midfielder, ranked third on the team in goals with three. He is a 21-year-old management sophomore majoring in finance.

Bettelli, a 5-foot-11, 180-pound forward, ranked second in the league with a team-leading five goals in 12 games for an impressive rookie campaign. The 18-year-old mathematics and computer science freshman tallied 28 per cent of the team's 18 goals scored.

Flores, an imposing 6-foot-4, 195-pound defender, cracked the lineup and quickly established himself as a regular. The 20-year-old electrical engineering freshman saw duty in 11 of the team's 12 games played.

Mounicot, a 54-year-old native of St-Jean-de-Luz, France, and a long-time resident of Outremont, Que., received coach-of-the-year honours for the fifth time in his long coaching career but the first time as bench boss of the Redmen since he took over in 2013 after 15 seasons in charge of the McGill women's team.

This year, he guided the men's program to a 5-4-3 record and a fourth-place finish in the seven-team Quebec conference. It was the team's first season over the .500 mark in eight years, since the 2011 campaign, when the Redmen posted a 7-3-2 record. With a differential of 18 goals for and 17 against, McGill had the second-best offence and third-best defence in the RSEQ league this year.

Mounicot, who was inducted to the McGill Sports Hall of Fame as an athlete in 2011, owns a lifetime 260-118-72 overall coaching record (.658) in 450 combined games with the Redmen and Martlets. His combined career regular season total at McGill is 174-54-47 in 275 contests (.718).

2018 RSEQ MEN'S SOCCER ALL-STARS AND MAJOR AWARDS

MAJOR AWARDS
Frédéric Lajoie-Gravelle - MONTRÉAL - Player of the Year
Pierre Lamothe - MONTRÉAL - Rookie of the Year
Pierre Bardet - UQTR - Leadership and Citizenship Award
Marc Mounicot - McGILL - Coach of the Year

FIRST TEAM
Frederic Lajoie-Gravelle - MONTRÉAL - Forward
Mehdi Ibn Brahim - McGILL - Forward
Omar Kreim - MONTRÉAL - Midfielder
Basil More-Chevalier - LAVAL - Midfielder
Ramzi Saim - McGILL - Midfielder
Pierre Lamothe - MONTRÉAL - Midfielder
Bila Dicko-Raynauld - LAVAL - Defender
Ismail Sow - MONTRÉAL - Defender
Hamza Methamem - UQAM - Defender
André Bona - UQAM - Defender
Nizar Houhou - LAVAL - Goalkeeper

SECOND TEAM
Thomas St-Maurice - LAVAL - Forward
Florian Bettelli - McGILL - Forward
Aboubacar Sissoko - MONTRÉAL - Midfielder
Mitchell Syla - UQAM - Midfielder
Ulrich Abo N'Guessan - UQTR - Midfielder
Divin Fuzolo - UQAM - Midfielder
Grayg Noireault - MONTRÉAL - Defender
Janouk Charbonneau - UQAM - Defender
Chris Flores - McGILL - Defender
Jean-Simon Cournoyer - UQTR - Defender
Valentin Lamoulie - UQAM - Goalkeeper

ALL-ROOKIE TEAM
Florian Bettelli - McGILL - Forward
Jérémy-Nathaniel Tothaud-Mouanza - UQTR - Forward
Pierre Lamothe - MONTRÉAL - Midfielder
Tchad Lapierre - UQTR - Midfielder
Jean-Philippe Lévesque - LAVAL - Midfielder
Michael Chatel - UQAM - Midfielder
Napoléon Thibault - LAVAL - Defender
Aurélien Duhamel - UQAM - Defender
Isam Zerouali - SHERBROOKE - Defender
Chris Flores - McGILL - Defender
Antoine Goulet - SHERBROOKE - Goalkeeper

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Le RSEQ dévoile ses récipiendaires 2018 en soccer universitaire masculin