Legendary Italian referee Pierluigi Collina believes the penalty kick rule should be changed, not allowing the penalty taker to get on the rebound after a goalkeeper’s save. Former Italian referee ...

Former Italian referee Pierluigi Collina in the stadium during the Women's Champions League final match between FFC Frankfurt and Paris St. Germain in the Friedrich Ludwig Jahn Sportpark. Lukas ...

Pierluigi Collina, arguably the most famous referee in football history, has defended FIFA’s push for longer stoppage times by saying players will soon stop wasting time when they realise there is no ...

YOKOHAMA, Japan — As far as whistle-blowers go, they don’t come much better than Pierluigi Collina. The Italian referee is generally acknowledged to be the finest in the world, a man abundantly ...

FIFA official Pierluigi Collina has reiterated his view that physical and verbal abuse against referees is a “cancer that may cost football its life” following an attack on Turkish referee Halil Umut ...

DOHA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Pierluigi Collina, Chairman of the FIFA Referees Committee, said the reason for the rise in added time at the World Cup is that referees have been asked to calculate it more ...

When the tournament kicked off in Porto Saturday afternoon, one man stood out on the pitch as much as Portugal star Luís Figo: the towering, bald Italian referee Pierluigi Collina, whose glowering ...

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