ROME: Italian official Pierluigi Collina was named best referee in the world for the fifth consecutive year by the international federation of football history and statistics on Tuesday.
Collina, who took charge of last year’s World Cup final between Brazil and West Germany, collected 222 points, finishing well clear of second-placed Urs Meier of Switzerland and Denmark’s Kim Milton Nielsen, who came in third.
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