Sunderland shareholder Juan Sartori has taken on a bigger role at French top flight club AS Monaco. The Uruguayan politician and businessman holds a 30 percent stake in Sunderland and is a non-executive director at the Stadium of Light, where he is seen as seen as a friend and ally of owner Kyril Louis-Dreyfus.
But Sartori is also on the board at Monaco, where he has been vice-president since November 2021, with his father-in-law Dmitry Rybolovlev already holding the role of club president. One of Monaco's other director's Oleg Petrov, recently resigned from the board and as Monaco's representative within the European Club Association (ECA), which is an organisation that represents the interests of football clubs within each of UEFA's member associations.
Sartori has stepped into the vacancy left by Petrov and will now act as Monaco's representative on the ECA. Sartori’s wife - and Rybolovlev's daughter - Ekaterina Sartori Rybolovleva is a long-standing Monaco board member and is also a vice-president of the club.
