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Pierluigi Pairetto

1952 - Today

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Pierluigi Pairetto (born 15 July 1952 in Turin) is an Italian former football referee. Among the many prestigious games he officiated were the Euro 96 final between Germany and the Czech Republic at Wembley, and the classic USA 94 second-round clash between Romania and Argentina in Pasadena. He held the position of Italian vice chairman of the UEFA Referees Committee until the summer of 2006, when it was discovered that he had been in regular telephone contact with Juventus FC chief executive Luciano Moggi regarding which referees would be selected for 2004–05 Serie A fixtures. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierluigi Pairetto has received more than 67,974 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Pierluigi Pairetto is the 38th most popular referee (down from 31st in 2019), the 3,812th most popular biography from Italy (down from 3,603rd in 2019) and the 6th most popular Italian Referee.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among REFEREES

Among referees, Pierluigi Pairetto ranks 38 out of 147. Before him are Ľuboš Micheľ, Cüneyt Çakır, Yuichi Nishimura, Milorad Mažić, Felix Brych, and Jorge Larrionda. After him are Stéphanie Frappart, Kim Milton Nielsen, Olegário Benquerença, Alireza Faghani, Toru Kamikawa, and Urs Meier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1952, Pierluigi Pairetto ranks 438. Before him are Hubert Auriol, Sylvie Kinigi, Michael O'Hare, Martin O'Neill, Randy Jones, and Thomas Sjöberg. After him are Brigitte Engerer, Arie Schans, Tatyana Prorochenko, Johanna Klier, Lorna Luft, and Jacob Miller.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Pierluigi Pairetto ranks 3,812 out of 5,161. Before him are Carlo Facetti (1935), Alessio Tacchinardi (1975), Giovanni Cheli (1918), Iginio Straffi (1965), Giorgio Bocchino (1913), and Giuseppe Galante (1937). After him are Giovanni Saldarini (1924), Giovanni Invernizzi (1926), Pasquale Fornara (1925), Silvio Micali (1954), Giorgio Scarlatti (1921), and Nicola Berti (1967).

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Among REFEREES In Italy

Among referees born in Italy, Pierluigi Pairetto ranks 6. Before him are Pierluigi Collina (1960), Roberto Rosetti (1967), Nicola Rizzoli (1971), Sergio Gonella (1933), and Daniele Orsato (1975). After him are Gianluca Rocchi (1973), Paolo Tagliavento (1972), and Stefano Farina (1962).

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