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Surprise birthday party for Mr. Monette
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This Thursday afternoon Belgium’s Frank Monette could not believe when he got to the Referees Room aside St. Paul’s Bay 2023 EBSA European Snooker Championships venue: their friends prepared him a surprise party on the day of his 54th birthday.
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The now 54 aged ‘Hanco’, as the close friends and referees community call him, just came from a match and had to slice the chocolate cake for everybody. Born in Sint-Truiden, Belgium’s referee lives in Stevoort with his for more than 30 years wife Petra.
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«I can not complain about life, has been good to me. I’m fortunate to have close friends like this ones and a family that I love and who loves me back or even more», told us the proud father of «two now grown-up princesses», Iris and Rani. By the way: he loves to play snooker and his best break is 48.