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Sergio Gonella

1933 - 2018

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Sergio Gonella (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsɛrdʒo ɡoˈnɛlla]; 23 May 1933 – 19 June 2018) was an Italian bank manager and association football referee. He was the first ever Italian appointed to referee the final of the FIFA World Cup which occurred when he took charge of the 1978 final between hosts Argentina and the Netherlands. He is one of only two persons (the other being the Swiss Gottfried Dienst) to have refereed the finals of both the UEFA European Championship and the FIFA World Cup. In 2013, he was inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sergio Gonella has received more than 55,427 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Sergio Gonella is the 20th most popular referee (up from 21st in 2019), the 3,331st most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,389th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Italian Referee.

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  • 49.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among REFEREES

Among referees, Sergio Gonella ranks 20 out of 147. Before him are Roberto Rosetti, Nicola Rizzoli, Said Belqola, Gamal Al-Ghandour, Viktor Kassai, and Maurice Guigue. After him are Szymon Marciniak, Ravshan Irmatov, Byron Moreno, Gottfried Dienst, Massimo Busacca, and Tom Henning Øvrebø.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Sergio Gonella ranks 303. Before him are Nicholas Pileggi, Helmuth Rilling, Mark Forest, Theodore Roszak, Lee Radziwill, and Stanislav Lyubshin. After him are Tamás Vásáry, René Felber, Neale Fraser, Peter Post, Diane Disney Miller, and Hillevi Rombin. Among people deceased in 2018, Sergio Gonella ranks 258. Before him are Unshō Ishizuka, André Lerond, Shinobu Hashimoto, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Jigjidiin Mönkhbat, and Claudio Scimone. After him are Jennifer Welles, David Cherkassky, Theodor Hoffmann, Adolf Grünbaum, Tony Joe White, and Vladimír Weiss.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sergio Gonella ranks 3,331 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco Mario Pagano (1748), Omero Tognon (1924), Bruno Zumino (1923), Aldo Nadi (1899), Fedora Barbieri (1920), and Isotta Nogarola (1418). After him are Clemente Biondetti (1898), Mauro Baldi (1954), Aristide Guarneri (1938), Lorenzo Insigne (1991), Paolo Romeo (1938), and Max Valier (1895).

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Among REFEREES In Italy

Among referees born in Italy, Sergio Gonella ranks 4. Before him are Pierluigi Collina (1960), Roberto Rosetti (1967), and Nicola Rizzoli (1971). After him are Daniele Orsato (1975), Pierluigi Pairetto (1952), Gianluca Rocchi (1973), Paolo Tagliavento (1972), and Stefano Farina (1962).

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