The World Stars Football Match Monaco has been taking place every year for 25 years on the fringe of the Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix. A friendly match gathering around thirty celebrities and sports stars on the pitch. Led by H.S.H. Prince Albert II, the AS Star Team for Children combined the speed of the motorcycle racer Loris Capirossi, the Italian cyclist Claudio Chiapucci with the tactics of the international footballers such as William Gallas, Marco Simone, Olivier Dacourt, Ludovic Giuly, Patrice Loko and Francesco Toldo.
The team of H.S.H Prince Albert II held their own against the World F1 Drivers Association with a score of 2-1. A team bringing together all the talent and performances of leading drivers such as Mika Häkkinen, Mick Schumacher, Daniel Ricciardo, to name but a few, united alongside the driver Felipe Massa.
As with international matches at UEFA Euro, the FIFA World Cup and on the margins of the UEFA Champions League final, the officials’ panel is Hublot branded at the edge of the pitch and advertising panels around the field also displayed the black and white colours of the watchmaking brand. A relay match, enabling all the players, fitted out in Hublot coloured kit, to play in the game at the Louis II stadium. Celebrities and athletes united in solidarity for a good cause that let the strength of their football studs raise money for various charitable associations under the watchful eye of their coach, Claudio Ranieri.
At the stadium, on the pitch, and also in the streets of the principality, as the official timekeeper for the match, the Swiss watchmaker proudly shows its colours. It shared the billing on a hundred kakemonos with Ferrari, its long-term partner, which has made a promising start to the season thanks to victories in Australia and Bahrain, as well as a podium in China and in Spain and a double in Russia. This flying start has enabled Sebastian Vettel, Scuderia driver and quadruple world champion, to move to the top of the drivers’ championship.
