REFEREE

Massimo Busacca

1969 - Today

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Massimo Busacca (born 6 February 1969) is a Swiss former football referee, who is FIFA Director of Refereeing, overseeing the protection of football’s core values and the continuous improvement of the game through the development of match officials and referee coaches. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Massimo Busacca has received more than 141,885 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Massimo Busacca is the 25th most popular referee (down from 19th in 2019), the 486th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 435th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Swiss Referee.

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  • 140k

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  • 55.51

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among REFEREES

Among referees, Massimo Busacca ranks 25 out of 147Before him are Maurice Guigue, Sergio Gonella, Szymon Marciniak, Ravshan Irmatov, Byron Moreno, and Gottfried Dienst. After him are Tom Henning Øvrebø, Daniele Orsato, Arnaldo Cézar Coelho, Pedro Proença, Nikolay Latyshev, and Frank De Bleeckere.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Massimo Busacca ranks 188Before him are Noah Taylor, Danis Tanović, Jason Becker, Dana White, Helmut Lotti, and Dacian Cioloș. After him are Márcio Santos, Bismarck Barreto Faria, Lexington Steele, Mattia Binotto, Dulce Pontes, and Stephen Moyer.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Massimo Busacca ranks 486 out of 1,015Before him are Lionel Dunsterville (1865), Vreni Schneider (1964), Alex Zülle (1968), Kaspar Villiger (1941), Gottfried Dienst (1919), and Karl Bodmer (1809). After him are Anton Allemann (1936), Heinrich Schmid (1921), Albert Eschenmoser (1925), Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (1802), Roger Vonlanthen (1930), and Alois Estermann (1954).

Among REFEREES In Switzerland

Among referees born in Switzerland, Massimo Busacca ranks 2Before him are Gottfried Dienst (1919). After him are Urs Meier (1959).