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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

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sergio Gonella is the 17th most popular referee (up from 20th in 2019), the 3,326th most popular biography from Italy (up from 3,331st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Italian Referee.

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Among REFEREES

Among referees, Sergio Gonella ranks 17 out of 147. Before him are Nicolae Rainea, Horacio Elizondo, Rudi Glöckner, Jack Taylor, Howard Webb, and Gottfried Dienst. After him are Roberto Rosetti, István Kovács, Maurice Guigue, Viktor Kassai, Gamal Al-Ghandour, and Massimo Busacca.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Sergio Gonella ranks 299. Before him are William Smith, Rachid Sfar, John Taylor, Arnold Koller, Renée Colliard, and Meena Kumari. After him are Severino Poletto, Theodore Roszak, Georgi Atanasov, Ayako Wakao, William Kahan, and József Bencsics. Among people deceased in 2018, Sergio Gonella ranks 271. Before him are Phan Văn Khải, Dave Holland, Luis Posada Carriles, Sabahudin Kurt, Nelson Pereira dos Santos, and Jean Porter. After him are Jerry Van Dyke, Shinobu Hashimoto, Robert Spaemann, Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and Levko Lukianenko.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sergio Gonella ranks 3,327 out of 5,161. Before him are Alessandro Striggio (1540), Giuseppe Piermarini (1734), Pietro Palazzini (1912), Dalila Di Lazzaro (1953), Giuseppe Baldo (1914), and Vincenzo Cerami (1940). After him are Severino Poletto (1933), Tullio Regge (1931), Roberto Rosetti (1967), Cipriano Chemello (1945), Marino Basso (1945), and Gigi Meroni (1943).

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Among REFEREES In Italy

Among referees born in Italy, Sergio Gonella ranks 3. Before him are Pierluigi Collina (1960), and Nicola Rizzoli (1971). After him are Roberto Rosetti (1967), Daniele Orsato (1975), Pierluigi Pairetto (1952), Gianluca Rocchi (1973), Stefano Farina (1962), and Paolo Tagliavento (1972).

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