Néstor Pitana
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Key facts
- Full name
- Néstor Fabián Pitana
- Born
- ( 1975-06-17 ) 17 June 1975 (age 50) , Corpus , Argentina
- Years
- League
- 2010 2022
- FIFA listed
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Argentina
- Place of birth
- Corpus Christi
- Occupation
- association football referee
- Position held
- FIFA referee
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Sport
- association football
- Image
- Néstor Pitana.jpg
- Height
- 192
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- date of birth
- 1975-06-17
- Commons category
- Néstor Pitana
- birth name
- Néstor Fabián Pitana
- start of work period
- 2007-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Néstor Fabián Pitana ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈnestoɾ piˈtana]; born 17 June 1975) is an Argentine former football referee who refereed at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, 2015 Copa América and 2018 FIFA World Cup. He oversaw the opening match of the 2018 FIFA World Cup between Russia and Saudi Arabia. Pitana was appointed to take charge of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Final between France and Croatia at Moscow on 15 July 2018. He became the second referee to take charge of the opening game and the Final in the same tournament (after fellow Argentinian Horacio Elizondo, who did the same in 2006).
Controversies
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Néstor Pitana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.