PRO SPORT
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French football champions of the 1996 – 1997 season
gentinian player Delio Onnis who became their best-ever scorer over the next six years ( 223 goals ).
YEARS OF SUCCESS
Lucien Leduc guided Monaco to three league titles and two domestic cups . In 1960 , Monaco coach Lucien Leduc had already led the club to its first professional trophy , the Coupe de France , beating Saint-Étienne 4:2 in extra time . This initial success was bettered in the following year 1961 with the club winning the French Championship for the first time in its history , qualifying for the European Cup . Leduc subsequently led the club to its first League and Cup Double in 1963 .
Upon Leduc ’ s departure in 1963 , Monaco endured a barren run . Chairman Jean-Louis Campora ( son of former president Charles Campora ) in his second season , brought back Leduc , who immediately steered the club to promotion to the first division and won the championship the following year in 1978 . And in 1979 ASM won their first La Coupe des Alpes trophy . Leduc subsequently left the club again in 1979 .
The early 1980s saw a steady flow of successes in national competitions . Monaco gained a title virtually every other year , the Coupe de France in 1980 and 1985 , the French Championship in 1982 , and it was Coupe de France finalist and French Championship runner-up in 1984 . Can you guess what was one of the biggest match wins in the Club ’ s history ? In the 1985 – 1986 season , Monaco gave Bordeaux a thorough hammering 9:0 !
In 1987 AS Monaco signed Arsène Wenger . Wenger ’ s reign marked one of the club ’ s most successful periods . Youth team policies produced future World Cup winners Emmanuel Petit , Lilian Thuram and Thierry Henry . Under Wenger , they won the league in his first season in charge ( 1988 ) and the Coupe de France in 1991 , with the club consistently competing in the latter stages of the European Cup and regularly challenging for the league title .
After Wenger ’ s departure , the club went on to record two further league championships under Jean Tigana in 1997 and under Claude Puel in 2000 .
Finalists of the UEFA Champions League , 2004
THE MODERN WAVE OF AGONY AND ECSTASY
The team , coached by former French national team captain Didier Deschamps and featuring soccer giants such as Fernando Morientes , Ludovic Giuly , Jérôme Rothen and Dado Pršo , finished third in Ligue 1 and enjoyed a remarkable run to the final of the UEFA Champions League , beating Real Madrid and Chelsea along the way . However , in spite of the on-field success , the 2003 – 2004 season was one of the club ’ s most difficult financial years in its history . With debt amounting to 53 million euros the club was struggling to keep its best
Prince Albert II , the principal fan of AS “ Monaco ”, and Dmitry Rybolovlev , the President of the Club , at Stade Louis-II
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