Roberto Rosetti

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Roberto Rosetti
Born	September 18, 1967 (1967-09-18) (age 41) Pecetto Torinese, Turin, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Football referee, director of hospital
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	84 kg

Roberto Rosetti (born 18 September 1967 in Pecetto Torinese, Piedmont) is an Italian football referee. He is fluent in Italian, English and French.

Rosetti started refereeing in 1983, and took charge of his first match in the Italian Serie A in 1996. He received his FIFA Badge in 2002.^[1]

Rosetti works as the director of a hospital outside of football^[2], and enjoys tennis and reading.^[3]

[edit] 2006 Italian match-fixing scandal

Rosetti was untainted by the match-fixing scandal which affected Italian football in 2006.

Luciano Moggi, then general director of Juventus, had described Rosetti and his fellow colleague Pierluigi Collina as being too 'objective' in an intercepted telephone call. Moggi also claimed that Rosetti and Collina should be 'punished' for decisions made against Juventus in that same phonecall.^[4]

Rosetti emerged from the scandal unscathed, with the intercepted phone call a glowing testament to his impartiality and credibility as a referee.

[edit] 2007-2008 UEFA Champions League

Rosetti was one of the many referees who officiated over the UEFA Champions League 2007–08. He refereed the semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge, earning the praise of UK television and radio commentators for his control of the game. Prior to the match, Liverpool coach Rafael Benítez had noted that the home side tends to emerge victorious when Rosetti referees.^[5]

[edit] Euro 2008

Rosetti was selected to referee at UEFA Euro 2008 in Switzerland and Austria.^[6]

At the tournament, Rosetti was the referee for the:

• group A opening game between Switzerland and the Czech Republic;
• group D game between Greece and Russia;
• Quarter Final match between Croatia and Turkey
• Final match between Germany and Spain.

[edit] 2008-2009 UEFA Champions League

Rosetti was one of the many referees who officiated over the UEFA Champions League 2008–09. He attracted criticism for sending off Manchester United's Darren Fletcher during the second leg of the semi-final between Manchester United and Arsenal.^[7] Rosetti allegedly saw Fletcher clip the back heel of Cesc Fabregas, with Fabregas falling in the penalty area. Replays later showed that Fletcher had touched the ball prior to fouling Fabregas but he was still forced to miss the final. Nonetheless Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson refused to blame Rosetti afterwards, concluding that it was simply "terribly unlucky."^[8] Veteran English referee Graham Poll has since suggested that the referee was right to issue a red card as the fact that Fletcher touched the ball while committing the foul was in fact irrelevant under FIFA's revised law.^[9]

[edit] 2010 FIFA World Cup

He was preselected as a referee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.^[10]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• FIFA profile
• Reuters profile
• Profile on ratetheref.net