Pierluigi Collina

italian football referee and fiscal adviser

Pierluigi Collina ( italian pronunciation : [ ˌpjɛrluˈiːdʒi kolˈliːna ] ; born 13 February 1960 ) is an italian early football referee. He was named FIFA ‘s “ Best Referee of the class ” six consecutive times and is widely considered to be the best football referee of all time. [ 1 ] Collina is placid involved in football, as an amateur adviser to the italian Football Referees Association ( AIA ), as the Head of Referees for the Football Federation of Ukraine since 2010, [ 2 ] as a member of the UEFA Referees Committee, and as Chairman of the FIFA referees committee. [ 3 ]

Refereeing career [edit ]

Collina was born in Bologna and attended the University of Bologna, graduating with a degree in economics in 1984. During his adolescent years, he played as a centre-back for a local team, but was persuaded in 1977 to take a referee ‘s course, where it was discovered that he had a especial aptitude for the occupation. Within three years he was officiating at the highest flat of regional matches, while besides completing his compulsory military service. In 1988, he progressed more quickly than normal to the national one-third division, Serie C1 and Serie C2. After three seasons, he was promoted to officiating Serie B and Serie A matches.

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Around this time, Collina contracted a severe imprint of alopecia, resulting in the permanent loss of all his facial hair, giving him his classifiable bald appearance and earning the dub Kojak. In 1995, after he had officiated at 43 Serie A matches, he was placed on FIFA ‘s Referees List. He was allocated five matches at the 1996 Olympic Games, including the final between Nigeria and Argentina. He refereed the 1999 UEFA Champions League Final between Bayern Munich and Manchester United ; he cited this as his most memorable game because of the cheers at the end, which he described as a “ lions ‘ roar ”. [ 4 ] In June 2002, Collina reached the pinnacle of his career, when he was chosen for the World Cup final, between Brazil and Germany. Prior to the game, Germany ‘s Oliver Kahn told the Irish Times : “ Collina is a first referee, there ‘s no doubt about that, but he does n’t bring luck, does he ? ” Kahn was referring to two previous high-profile matches that Collina had refereed which involved Kahn : the aforesaid 1999 UEFA Champions League Final, a 2–1 defeat for Bayern ; and Germany ‘s 5–1 get the better of against England in September 2001. [ 5 ] Kahn ‘s luck did not change in the final, and his team lost 2–0. He refereed the 2004 UEFA Cup Final between Valencia and Marseille. In February 2005, as he reached the mandate retirement senesce, UEFA Euro 2004 was his last major international tournament. His survive external match was Portugal – Slovakia, for a 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifier at Estádio district attorney Luz in Lisbon. The FIGC raised its mandate retirement senesce to 46 in order to accommodate Collina for a further temper. however, a quarrel emerged between the federation and Collina early in August 2005, following his decision to sign a sponsorship deal with Opel ( besides advertising for Vauxhall Motors in the United Kingdom – both are owned by General Motors ). As Opel was besides a sponsor of Serie A baseball club A.C. Milan, the deal was seen as a conflict of interest, and Collina was not allowed to referee crown flight matches in Italy. In reaction, Collina handed in his resignation, effectively ending his career. The italian Referees Association then attempted to reject his resignation, but he persisted with his retirement. He did, however, referee the Soccer Aid matches for charity in May 2006 and September 2008. During the latter of these games, Collina was involved in an awkward fall and was stretchered off after 21 minutes of play. He besides refereed the first half of the 2010 Soccer Aid match on 6 June. Collina ‘s final competitive game was a Champions League modifier between Everton and Villarreal on 24 August 2005. He announced his retirement soon after the game. Collina attracted the anger of Luciano Moggi, the Juventus executive and chief instigator of the 2006 italian football scandal. Collina was one of the referees that Moggi attempted to have punished for decisions that were made against Juventus. In an wiretap phone call, Moggi claimed that Collina and his colleague Roberto Rosetti were excessively “ aim ” and should be “ punished ” for it. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] As a resultant role, he and Rosetti were two of the few referees that emerged unscathed from the scandal. In September 2005, his easily recognizable face ( to followers of football ) besides led to his appearance in an mention for the Vauxhall Vectra, which aired during the 2006 World Cup in the United Kingdom. He besides appeared in adverts, for MasterCard and Adidas during the 2006 World Cup. Although Collina is closely identified with football, his favorite sports baseball club plays basketball. He is a lifelong supporter of Fortitudo Bologna, one of Europe ‘s leading basketball clubs. On 25 January 2010, Collina participated in a special match for supporting victims of the earthquake in Haiti opposing “ Friends of Zidane and Ronaldo ” and the Benfica team in Lisbon. [ clarification needed ] Collina has been head of referees for the Football Federation of Ukraine since 2010. [ 2 ] His work in this position is criticised by national referees who disapprove of his miss of affair in ukrainian football ( spending not more than two weeks per year in Ukraine ) and potential tolerance towards putrescence in the ukrainian national football association. [ 8 ]

personal life sentence [edit ]

Collina in 2019 In 1988, Collina met his future wife Gianna in Versilia. After living in concert about from their meet, they moved to the coastal township of Viareggio. Since their marriage, the match have had two daughters. In 2003, Collina published his autobiography, My Rules of the Game (Le Mie Regole del Gioco). In August 2005, after his retirement, he concentrated on his own business, as a fiscal adviser. nowadays he lives in Forte dei Marmi. [ 9 ] After refereeing the second Round match between Japan and Turkey at the 2002 FIFA World Cup, Collina became celebrated in Japan, and appeared in a television receiver attend for freeze takoyaki products. He is besides very popular in Turkey, as no Turkish team, national or club, lost a game with him in appoint. [ 10 ]

other media [edit ]

In July 2002, he appeared in cartoon human body in George Michael ‘s television “ Shoot the Dog “. [ 11 ] Collina was chosen as the cover number for the football video games Pro Evolution Soccer 3 and Pro Evolution Soccer 4, appearing aboard compatriot Francesco Totti and Thierry Henry for the latter. This was unusual, as football games had come to about entirely feature merely players and managers on their covers, and he did not feature in either game. In addition, he featured as an “ unlockable ” referee in the rival EA Sports game FIFA Football 2005, released curtly before Pro Evolution Soccer 4.

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References [edit ]

General

My Rules of the Game: Pierluigi Collina (translated from the Italian by Iain Halliday), Macmillan, 2003. ISBN 0-330-41872-6 Original title: Le Mie Regole del Gioco.

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