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Pierluigi Collina
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Pierluigi Collina is an Italian referee who officiated international football matches at the highest levels of the sport. He is notable for his prominent role in refereeing major competitions and is recognized as one of the most respected figures in professional football officiating.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pierluigi
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Bologna
- Occupation
- economist
- Position held
- FIFA referee
- Educated at
- University of Bologna
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Italian
- Sport
- association football
- Country for sport
- Italy
- Image
- Pierluigi Collina 2019 (cropped).jpg
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- Commons category
- Pierluigi Collina
- date of birth
- 1960-02-13
- start of work period
- 1991-00-00
- end of work period
- 2005-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Pierluigi Collina (born 13 February 1960) is an Italian former football referee. He was named "The World's Best Referee" by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics six consecutive times from 1998 to 2003.
Collina is still involved in football as an unpaid consultant to the Italian Football Referees Association (AIA), the Head of Referees for the Football Federation of Ukraine since 2010, a member of the UEFA Referees Committee, and Chairman of the FIFA referees committee.
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