Pierluigi Collina

Italian international football referee

  • Fame65.0
  • Momentum24.7
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    Born 1960
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    The Art of Football fr…
    2006
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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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