Pierluigi Collina
Italian international football referee
- Fame65.0
- Momentum24.7
- Italy rank#233
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- Fame65.0
- Momentum24.7
- Italy rank#233
- Writers rank#221
- Wikipedia166.7K
Born 1960 · age 66Italy
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Updated 2026-06-21
The bald head and unblinking stare made him unmistakable on the pitch, but what mattered was the call — Pierluigi Collina was voted the world's best referee six years running, the only official whose name casual fans knew.
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Born 13 February 1960 in Italy, Collina rose through the refereeing ranks to command the biggest matches in world football. Between 1998 and 2003, the International Federation of Football History & Statistics named him the world's best referee six consecutive times — an unmatched streak that placed an official, for once, in the limelight. After hanging up the whistle he stayed in the game: unpaid consultant to the Italian Football Referees Association, head of referees for Ukraine's football federation since 2010, and eventually chairman of FIFA's referees committee. The job that made him famo…
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Historical30.0
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