Pierluigi Collina is read about 1,024 times a day, in 51 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 15 October 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 390 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?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.
Also in Deutsch
Photos 3
Awards
About this person
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 famous never paid like the players, but it gave him something rarer - universal respect in a sport that eats its own.
Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.