Day: 23 August 2017

A young Monegasque student of Communications and Marketing will take part in the next season of the prime time adventure game shown on TF1, Koh Lanta, due to take to the air again from Friday, September 1.

Marta, 21, will represent Monaco at the start of the competition, which this year tours the archipelago of Fiji.

Marta competed in the Miss Italy 2015 contest, and on her Instagram account shares many photos of her daily life in the Principality.

In a video portrait put on line by TF1, the student says: “When I was young, I was a high-level athlete and I was a 4×1000 metre French champion.” Jokingly, she says that if she wins the €100,000 at stake, she will spend it on handbags.

In a more serious vein, she adds, ominously: “I do not like to lose at all and I get upset very quickly. There is a place, only one winner and the others are in the trash.”

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Monaco’s most enthusiastic supporters, the Ultras, have criticised teen sensation Kylian Mbappe. The hardcore fans used Twitter to say that the transfer target had “proved nothing special in his few dozen matches as a professional”.

The Ultras said they were “amazed and indignant” at the amount of money involved in Mbappe’s possible transfer to arch rivals Paris Saint Germain and in his salary to extend his contract.

The 18-year-old striker’s problems came to the fore after he was left out of the Monaco squad against Metz last Friday. It has been reported that his sidelining was punishment for his bad behaviour towards a teammate in training last week.

Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim added: “Kylian is not at 100 percent. He is not in great form. But that is to be expected of a kid who is just 18.” Despite the Ultras’ claim, Mbappe scored 26 goals in 44 matches last season.

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Ludovic Giuly, a former AS Monaco captain, will serve as an ambassador for the club, the club said on Monday, August 21. Giuly will represent the current French champions at official events and will also work with the club’s youth academy.

The 41-year-old was capped 17 times by France and won the French title with Monaco in 2000. He captained the side that lost to Porto Champions League final in 2004.

Moving to Barcelona that year he helped the club win the Champions League in 2006. After playing with Roma and Paris Saint-Germain, he came back to Monaco for a season in 2011/12 in the second tier.

He has always enjoyed considerable popularity in Monaco.

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