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Romualdo Arppi Filho

1939 - 2023

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Romualdo Arppi Filho (7 January 1939 – 4 March 2023) was a Brazilian football referee. He officiated at three matches in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico, including the final between Germany and Argentina, which was won by Argentina. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Romualdo Arppi Filho has received more than 56,875 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Romualdo Arppi Filho is the 2nd most popular referee (up from 6th in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 338th in 2019) and the most popular Brazilian Referee.

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Among REFEREES

Among referees, Romualdo Arppi Filho ranks 2 out of 147Before him are Pierluigi Collina. After him are Ivan Eklind, Damir Skomina, Sándor Puhl, Michel Vautrot, Markus Merk, Horacio Elizondo, Rudi Glöckner, Nicolae Rainea, Jack Taylor, and Björn Kuipers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Romualdo Arppi Filho ranks 180Before him are Judy Chicago, Boris Kolker, Telesphore Toppo, R. Budd Dwyer, Heinz Holliger, and Czesław Niemen. After him are Pilar Bardem, Susannah York, Peppino di Capri, Marlena Shaw, Lili Ivanova, and Paul Winfield. Among people deceased in 2023, Romualdo Arppi Filho ranks 221Before him are Ahmad Jamal, Frances Sternhagen, María Kodama, Aleksandar Matanović, Ingrid Haebler, and Terry Venables. After him are Ita Ever, Gleb Panfilov, Michael Bishop, Karl-Josef Rauber, Paolo Magnani, and Julian Sands.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Romualdo Arppi Filho ranks 217 out of 2,236Before him are Fernando Meirelles (1955), Felipe Massa (1981), Geraldo Alckmin (1952), Véra Clouzot (1913), Jair da Costa (1940), and Diego Costa (1988). After him are Domingos da Guia (1912), Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (1841), Elza Soares (1930), Carlos Marighella (1911), Jair da Rosa Pinto (1921), and Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836).

Among REFEREES In Brazil

Among referees born in Brazil, Romualdo Arppi Filho ranks 1After him are Arnaldo Cézar Coelho (1943), Sandro Ricci (1974), Carlos Eugênio Simon (1965), Wilton Sampaio (1981), and Raphael Claus (1979).