Monaco (AFP)
Louis Ducruet, son of Princess Stéphanie of Monaco and assistant to AS Monaco vice-president Oleg Petrov, has left the Principality's club, both parties announced at the same time on Thursday.
Employee of the club since 2015, Louis Ducruet has worked in the sales department and then in the recruitment unit. Since February 2019, he was assistant to the club's vice-president, Vadim Vasilyev at first, then Oleg Petrov.
"It is with great emotion that I announce my departure from my favorite club, AS Monaco," said the son of Princess Stéphanie on his Instagram account.
"It is time for me to try a new adventure, a new challenge which will allow me to gain more experience," he continued before thanking the club's staff, employees and supporters.
According to various sources close to the club, Louis Ducruet should quickly find the former Monegasque François Modesto as well as the former sports director of Marseille, José Anigo, and work for the structure which manages the clubs of Olympiakos Piraeus, in Greece, and Nottingham Forest in England.
This highly publicized and symbolic departure of Prince Albert's nephew further accentuates the gap that is widening between the Russian billionaire Dmitri Rybolovlev, majority shareholder of the club and still embarrassed by legal affairs in the Principality, and the Princely Palace. .
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