Why Pierluigi Collina is the most LEGENDARY Referee in Football
2020 ж. 14 Қаң.
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When you say referee, the first association for most people will be a bald-headed tall man with a strong look in his eyes from Italy.
And his name is Pierluigi Collina.
But, how did he reach such a legendary status that no referee until or since him even touched?
Well, it’s a long story.
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What made him so special and legendary was...he was a bloody good referee...!!!
Creeper
Glad I stopped here to watch this video...worth it. Thanks for posting it.
he one time gave him self a yellow card for touching the ball on accident
@GOALSIDE! Did you say GALZIOPOLY????? pronunciation are important buddy!!!
This guy doesn't even need to show a red card, the player leaves on his own.
Even if he had to show you the yellow or red card. you were thinking he was giving you a flower 😁
True as fuck 😂😂😂😂😂
lmao
Bruhh
😂😂😂
during the 90s, Collina was called to referee a very difficult match in Serie B (Italy's 2nd Division), between Foggia and Bari, which fans are enemies. At the beginning of the second half, after the two teams exchanged their sides as it is normally done in football, however, the Foggia's fans (whose stand was therefore just behind Bari's goalkeeper) started to launch objects directed to the goalkeeper of Bari, making impossible for the match to continue. Thus, Collina decided to invert again the team's sides on the pitch, returning to the ones of the first half, making the match continue. Collina was so charismatic that he himself could decide the rules
Collina doesn’t follow the rules, the rules follow him.
That's actually very smart. No ref would have the balls to do that now
@@t8spy526 many of them would (I could bet money on Bjorn Kuipers), but probably the rules have become more strict nowadays, and referees don't get a lot of lenience in their officiating anymore. Although, had Collina still refereed today I think he would get lenience of his own and neither UEFA, FIFA, or the Italian Football Federation could do anything about it. And I'd love it :)
@@blabla-rg7ky I couldn't agree more! I also heard a story (though I don't believe it's true) that Collina actually booked one of his assistant refs in a game for failing to correctly call an offside because it was clear to everyone else except the assistant in question. I haven't been able to verify that story, but if it did happen, I wouldn't be surprised because that's just Collina - the rules actually follow him, not the other way around.
@@chiemekanwaogwugwu9995 lulz I actually wouldn't be surprised if he did that :)
Becoming a superstar as a referee is nuts, true legend.
at the time as well. it was unknown. the man's a legend and seemed to referee every single great match that went in my team's favour lol
The main part of noticing him for me was when he raged at a player (I forgot which match that was)
Deez Nuts
“Lost all his hair” Well I’m sure glad he didn’t decide to one punch any players
omg youre right.
He one carded them :P
i see what u did there
@@snakers83 I don't can you explain?
@@jhwhthemerciful it's a reference to Saitama, the main chat of OnePunchMan (manga/anime)
*When his mother was 9 months pregnant he showed himself a red card*
sigh
Damn boi
Why? Because he gave himself an illness?
@@tobyv6087 to be sent off
hahaha you make my day! :D
You know you’re corrupt to the bones when you demand punishment for someone being “too objective”. Pierluigi Collina is a legend!
damn hate when that happens
I think it was meant as a compliment not a real criticism but carry on
Christian Andersen except for the fact that this never happened. Collina was in a scandal for not stopping a game in really impossible weather conditions. Juventus for that lost a title (this before calciopoli scandal) and blamed Collina joking on the reasons he pulled out to justify his decision for letting play such a match. Americans always like to bend the reality to make their story much fascinating for the audience... Americanos by Holly Johnson best song on USA ever
@@paolomaria1845 So you Juventus fans not only are thieves but liars as well?
Deinos30 I guess you can only insult not knowing how to have a civil and respectful confrontation. I cited facts (Perugia Juve happened and can be found on the net), so, if you are simply insulting with no points, I’m ok with stopping this useless conversation
Collina used the "advantage rule" beautifully and that encouraged free flowing football. He did make mistakes, not all his decisions were perfect but the quality of his refereeing was, overall, sublime. The entertainment value of a match was increased by some 10-20% every time he was in charge.
we are all humans, humans are not perfect and we make mistakes. free flowing football is something i encourage and try to achieve when i ref a match myself. but holy fuck i don't think we'll ever see a ref like collina again.
@@PvMhijden Yes, the guy was great, precise and balanced, he made football better.
Collina would have loved the Premier league with it's free flowing attacking football!
i fully agree. He used the advantage the way it's supposed to be used
If the preparations before the game were correct statements, then his "mistake" decisions mightve been correct actually. Dude prolly knew at what part of the field he can do this and that to keep the game clean and flowing.
He had the eye of an eagle. He would spot things that it would take three different VAR angles to catch today. A legend.
there's a bald eagle joke in here somewhere
@@lolbitbot4791 Lol, good one 😄👍🏻
Plot twist: You think its VAR and goal line technology, but it was actually collina who they were calling. The so called VAR is just a telephone calling him and a playback of the recorded video
he's famous for "Si Mata Elang" or Eagle Eyes in Indonesia
@@ahdandimas6577bs
The best ref I’ve ever witnessed on the pitch, better than VAR.
@@BigMilker69 even mustafi?!?
@@cizzyball even Phil Jones
That's right bro
My left nut is better than VAR!
He made the most devestating mistake for me as fan, giving England a penalty in 2002 when OWen dived but he is still my all time fav referee.
This guy was legend if he would have been chosen to referee a world cup final including Italy, i do not think anyone would ahve objected
zeker! without a doubt.
@@manny3309 Nederlander? :D
@@scorpion407 je weet zelluuf ;)
I would have. And the opposition in the final would quite correctly have objected. And their fans.
lol you're mad.
People love arguing and disagreeing about who the best strikers, midfielders, defenders or goalkeepers of all-time are, but when it comes to referees, Collina is the objectively correct answer.
He had total respect from fans and players and basically wrote the book on what a pro ref should be. And he had the best death stare ever ☠️🤣
He is almost the “too objectively correct” answer 😂 The guy is a legend. You are spot on mate.
Collina was so intimidating, I remember watched him refereeing serie a italia matches in the 90s, and he was so villainous shouted at players who fought or cheated. He wasn't afraid of any bad/angry players nor italian gangsters who wanted to manipulate the league. I understand why they hated him for being too honest. Football hero who doesn't play football
My favourite Collina moment,is when Roy Keane got clattered by a Rangers player,Keane stood up,and Collina was like "Roy calm down" and Keane actually listened. Ultimate respect.
Yes l remember the German player Low Tar Math House too.
Me too bro me too
kripos LMAO FIRE THIS NARRATOR
Lothar Meth House
🤣🤣🤣
you mean the bay-urn player?! 🤣🤣
*Current Player :* I didn't do that! *Current Referee :* Nah, you can't lie. VAR proves everything! *Ancient Player :* I didn't do that! *Collina :* I saw that!
More like "I SEE EVERYTHING"
Collina has the eye of illuminati and LOTR at the same time
Ancient player: I didn’t do that Collina: Yes you did that Ancient player: I did that
If he's ancient everyone is a dinosaur
The fact you call them ancient 😹
I rarely see acknowledgement of his remarkable physique. That man was running more than most players on the field. Always near the ball, always anticipating where it will be.
Just what I thought. And he was damn fast :D
"Balona" "Beyern" "Serie Ayy" "Jew-vee" "Lowðar Math-house" are some of the most interesting pronunciations I've heard in a while 😂
The speaker is just plain embarrassed. But as said at the beginning of the video itself, the skill just wasn't there.
Cannot stand it. Awful. Learn how to speak.
"Seerieayy"
Shut up, guys. You're being petty.
Probably American or Canadian
„Bolona“, „Beyern“, „Math House“ All right, dude.
"Piiierluigi Colina"
Math house was the one that got me
Calsiopolee
@@simpleman7203 Una pugnalata
It's an american. I feel like he just researches hella soccer and tries to talk about it to get views
He was one of those referees that would just look at a player and he would behave properly. His presence in the field was very much felt. No one would dare push him around the way CR7 does to some referees nowadays
U dare not!
@@mensahadu4950 not what
Which says a lot since he had to deal with players in an era, where basically everyone had an overly inflated sense of masculinity and ego.
He has a look in his eyes that says " do ya feel lucky punk, go ahead make my day" great ref always fair.
The legend goes by that VAR is a desperate attempt by humans to bring Colina back on the pitch.
Well said
Hell yea brother!
VAR is actually a hot line to Collina
He is leading the VAR team as well
He left UEFA in protest to not adopting the VAR years ago...
When people like Oliver Kahn don't dare cross this guy, who know he is the real deal.
Anyone who has seen him officiate knows he's all business. A true gentleman on the pitch. We used to go around screaming "Collina!" when we would call a free kick to let the others know we were right.
The only Referee whose image was used as a cover for a football video game on PlayStation 2. Absolute legend. My dad bought that game for me, on the case of Pro Evolution Soccer 3 his image was used on the cover. His image alone was in front , no top football player or regular football player, ' his image alone graced the cover of that video game. If that's not legendary, tell me what is.
When this guy was on the pitch, you knew it was going to be a fair game, absolute legend
The best ref in the world ever, he should be teaching refereeing all over the world,there are so many poor power hungry little Hitler's out there,this man never lost control in game, 5 star ⭐
kzhead.info/sun/bMiklM-se2KKrZE/bejne.html biggest game of his career
Well said.
@@kclassy8631 real cheap move
@@shayak3236 it worked :)
@@kclassy8631 lmao before i was watching godlynoob coincidence
Man, I'm 31 y.o. and I've watched dozens of matches with this guy. He just had that aura, commanding respect. And I think I never caught him making a mistake.
Im turkish and its true. Everyone loves him for how ruthless he was against bullshit.
imo PL Collina is the best by a country mile of the modern day football referees. He puts the rest to shame. The game needs more referees like this charming man.
kzhead.info/sun/bMiklM-se2KKrZE/bejne.html biggest game of his career
@@kclassy8631 imagine being that desperate for views🤣 I didn't even click on it because I saw a comment saying it was a link to your shit video😂
Charming? Can't tell. Charismatic? Absolutely.
"Firm, but fair" is a good way to describe him. He has earned the honors bestowed on him.
This incredible Ref was not only knowledgeable of the game but was 100% fair without any prejudice. Easily the TOP of his peers. Shame that there are not more like him today. Cheers
he was an worldwide football icon.. unsurpassed... thank you mr Colina for your contribution
He is a legend in Turkey not because Turkish clubs or national team did not loose while he is in charge. Because most of our clubs and our national team suffered so much in European Tournaments in the hands of refs so Turkish people started thinking that Europeans hating Turks so their refs are biased against Turkish teams. But here comes Collina. With Collina we know that we will be on equal grounds with our opponents. This gave Turkish teams additional motivation. When it is announced Collina will be ref in our matches Turkish people went crazy with joy. He is embodiment of justice for us.
Simply because Collina was fair my friend, he truly was fair in his approach and decisions.
Man on phone I think i did not express myself clearly. Sorry for my English. The issue in almost every competition for Turkish teams regardless of the opponent refs was favoring the opponents of Turkish teams. Turkish people thinks that all Refs having European nationals was biased to Turkish teams. But this idea changed with Collina. Collina being Italian citizen was not favoring opponents of Turkish teams nor the Turkish teams. So Turkish fans started thinking that only ref that fair and just in all of europe was Collina. Collina is the mind-changer for Turkish people. Turks started to understand that it is not because of nationality it is due to incompetency of refs. Referees often affected from fans or names of big clubs from Spanish, English, German sides. Collina was so good that nothing can affect him. So small clubs from Turkey etc. can stand against big clubs. For example Markus Merk is also one of the famous and respectful ref but there was a match of Galatasaray against Barcelona in Nou Camp in 2001. Gala was 2-0 ahead but suddenly Markus Merk came to scene and Match concluded with 2-2. Watch that match it is available in youtube. What you will think if you are a Turkish fan. One of the biggest name as ref is doing so much mistakes in one much you will start thinking he wanted to Barca to win. But we never had this experience with Collina. And by the time passed we started to understand that it is not because we are Turkish they are italian etc. Big clubs and their fans can affect Incompetent refs. even Refs having big names and fame such as Anders Frisk, Markus Merk etc. often protects teams like Barcelona, Real Madrid, Man Utd., Bayern Munich etc.
You are right. Europe hates Turkey. And still, we can't understand why you are part of Europe.
A T because you need us to seem as not racist. It suits you to look like you are humanist and accepting every culture and nation meantime it is suits us to seem as a country has close ties with West. Win and win. By the way western part of Turkey is part of Europe geographically but why Israel also a part of UEFA? Or Armenia, Georgia, Azerbeijcan. Most importantly why Kazakhstan? Is it because big LNG in Kazakhstan or Turkey being more contributable to UEFA in financial way from all Balkan countries combined? Money my friend money. Do you understand now?
@@AT-he3dt That is irrelevant to what the original poster is saying. He is saying there was a perceived bias in Turkey about referees in European competition. Whether there was or not I don't know. A lot of places and supporters think refs are bias against them. Perhaps there is some truth to what he says? I don't know but there is truth when he says Turkish people liked him because they perceived him to be fair.
I remember him back in the 90’s. He was: fit - kept up with play , took no nonsense , was often very accurate and right. Players knew where they stood; those that tried to trick him regretted it.
When this guy left the pitch they had to bring in VAR to keep up.
That man was absolutely brilliant as a referee! None were better before, none have been better since. He is truly a football legend.
An honest man should be revered..they are so rare these days
italy should make a statue of him, his an italian legend yess..
It would be nice but i don't think we have room for another statue in this country
You can swear God in our country but not collina man.
In Italy he isn't
Mi dispiace ma in Italia non è così famoso abbiamo tanta gente che all'estero è più famosa che in Italia
not true, we don't see him as a legend. Don't talk about things you don't now.
Korea Japan 2002 made my childhood. We referred to him as the "Bald Eagle" ♥️ Malaysia
His presence at the 2002 World Cup final made it all the more memorable
“It’s a long story” *completes the story in less than 5 minutes*
Collina Sent him off before he could elaborate :P
Bring him in Real Madrid's matches, Ramos will no longer exist.
Bring him to Barcelona games, Barca wouldn't be able to buy him.
@@vipulpadghan Barcelona will lose 3-0 because 5 player will get red card because of diving lol..
Saravuth Seng and Madrid would win cuz we’re getting robbed constantly
배주현임윤아 i think more like a madrid thing, REMBER SUPERCOPA FINAL Cheatvarde
kenil bharwad you wouldn’t do the same thing? He sacrificed himself for the team so they could win.
Imagine his reaction to the Euro 2020 England vs Denmark penalty
He would get close to Sterling and look deep into his soul. The player would just confess everything wrong he did from age 10 till that day.
@@unwokeneuropean3590 LOL
@@unwokeneuropean3590 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Well said!
Thank you for your dedication Mr. Collina for your integrity. I enjoyed the way you kept the matches honest!
As an England fan, I was always happy when Collina was the ref, you knew that both sides would get a totally fair game that day.
I literaly can not remember a single situation where he was wrong. No foul unpunished and game situation ruined, just excellent work from this legend
He was hands down the best. He really added a lot to a match and I really miss him.
The Most Feared, Loved, and Respected Referee in The History of Football. when we don’t needed VAR. A wonderful quote from him, and I paraphrase: I'm not there to call fouls, I'm there to facilitate the creativity of the game.
The only person to refer to when we have to talk about GOATs in football officiating
Even more perfect when he didn't need any VAR to do the right thing
He also made wrong decisions😉
@@JustFun-fe7ux Wasn't saying he's never made wrong decisions, we all humans after all, but at least he's mostly made the right ones, even without VAR 😁
@@ngybrid you dumb? VAR is a good thing. It's just being implemented like shit
this man had a radar behind the neck, he was able to correct also the lines lateral referee about offsides, a real talent
Var is only bad in the PL. Outside the U.K it's used correctly.
Legend! He was the go to guy in football refereeing. The difficult matches. The controversial matches. You knew the game was in safe hands. One ref I never had a bad thing to say about. Pure legend. ❤
My dad won the award IIF 3 times, and hi was a good friend with Collina, for a fact
What is ur dads name
This man is so legendary that even I and after 30 years of watching football he is the only referee who I know his name.
Absolutely butchered Matthaus’ pronunciation
Yeh, should be Mat-ay-us lol. Americans ay lol!!
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Low-Thar Math-Ow-S
I stopped watching as soon as I heard that.
Kevin Otte Me too, took me out of it and made me way too annoyed 😂
What a legend he was. Every time you see him as a referee in a match, you know that its gonna be a good game!
I was young when he was a ref but apart from his look, I always remembered him being firm but fair
To everyone saying “he didn’t need VAR either” need to realize that it wasn’t referees that were asking for VAR it was annoying spectators
VAR is still needed. It has already shown improvement in the game during the WC and CL. Just because it is used absolutely terribly in Prem, doesn't mean all VAR is bad
you mean "annoyed"
Florin Natu nope, I meant annoying. People need to learn to respect referees and their decisions. Whenever Messi or Ronaldo miss a goal nobody asks for them to be replaced, people hardly even bitch about it. Referees are human too and will miss calls sometimes. Fans are just too entitled
@@Jerryleedlelee why commit mistakes when you can avoid doing so?
Mateo Cossani Im not against VAR I’m just stating a mean reason why VAR was implanted in the first place
I almost tapped out at Lothar Matt House and shut it down at KAL-SI-OH-PO-LEE.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
he missed an opportunity as a villain in movies.
I met him at an Euro 2004 match. He`s even more scary in person xD
And then we have Mike Dean.
The best referee ever of course
shit... one of the worst refree in the world.. refree in epl so horrible..
Mike Dean has done a great job over the years. It's a hard job if you stop and think about it. VAR can be and should be an excellent addition if it's used properly. It will assist referees and take away blaming refs, who do make mistakes and are often " duped" by players who deserve Oscars for than football trophies!. Mike Dean will be the perfect man to liaise and get VAR right like it works in cricket...the umpires in cricket don't take offence and it helps them improve. One comment said " power hungry little Hitler's"...VAR can...and will end that aspect of refereeing. At least we know Mike is a football fan with his vociferous support of Tranmere Rovers!!.lol.
Yeah fucked us (Arsenal) over a penalty last week.
When you have watch Championship referees week in and out THEN you can say how bad EPL referees are! Mike Dean took charge at Birmingham v Leeds last season at St Andrews and the difference in class between him and the dross who take control of EFL games every week was remarkable.
Just hearing his name gives me goosebumps, a real legend. I used to like him very much because no matter what decision he took no player could flinch on it.
And because invariably, any decision was ultimately confirmed by replays. The man was incredibly accurate.
You know nothing
@@ilanshachar3208 ask Chelsea about his lack of impartiality when he cheated Chelsea ,the guy was a crook ,its why he retired
I loved collina because it was so much fun watching him on the green and the fact when ever a player was thinking that he never remember a referee, after a game with collina he definetely remember collina
A truly legendary figure in footbal! And a story well-told!👏👏👏
Man I miss this ball guy seeing on TV. Saying hi from Somalia.. He was tough and kind person.
How's the piracy going?
@@Blurrybob Leave him alone 😂
Seems like he was Messi among the refferies!
You mean Maradona ;)
No, he was the best, he’s a Ronaldo
@SF nicboxl I'm talking about the player not the person. Maradona it's called "Mano de Dios" Messi? Great player but, compared to Maradona just Pelé Baggio Gullit can compare
@@C0DE_ZER0 Nah! Nobody can be Ronaldo 😁
kzhead.info/sun/bMiklM-se2KKrZE/bejne.html biggest game of his career
All we needed was this guy in quarterfinals match Netherlands vs Argentina
I think the moral of this story is that it doesn't matter what you do for a living, instead it matters how well you do it. It doesn't matter whether you're a chef, an actor, a builder or a lawyer, if you do it well enough, you will be respected and widely-known.
Well said, he is in a profession where it is common place for all obscenities and disrespect to be dished out from players and fans with ref intimidation at the forefront. He puts on a great war face and calls it with self assurance. The fact so many respect him for his skill and command over the players speaks greater than a Shakespear monalogue of the man.
@@gm2407 very good point
👏🏼👏🏼❤️❤️
Such a charismatic referee. He was a step higher than anyone else. Grande Pierluigi
He truly is the best of the best! An absolutely amazing referee!
Collina is a legend in Turkish people's hearts, cheers from Turkey!
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I loved him since I saw him. He was a really gentle but authoritarian referee. All referees should be targeting his appearance. Definitely by far the best referee mankind has bring forth.^^
Serie A really misses his perfection
Gustosmundo Juventus does for sure!
@@dizza213 shut up, loser
@@dizza213 rubentino di merda
I never knew his name but I always recognized him in matches, he was truly an amazing referee!!
Imagine if he was a contemporary of Pepe...he would've retired that guy from UCL
A true legend, i loved him back in the days. And the shirt swap with Beckham (just learned it today) makes him even more epic.
So, that's his name! I have been looking for videos on this man since 1998 and especially since the 2002 World cup. I hated him for a little while after Brazil beat Germany cos if he wasn't too strict Germany would have won in the finals. But after the match, I found that I missed his strictness cos most other referees seemed scared to make decisions. Legend! For this, you have earned my subscription. This is information worth its name.
You managed to mispronounce literally every Italian word and players name
not only the Italians...
How he pronounced Lothar Matthäus was the worst
Who cares. Hes not italian try getting a non bi-lingual italian to say english words properly. You'd be in for a ride.
Every Italian world? 🤔 🌍
If you know how its pronounced correctly its because you understood it, meaning that there was no reason to pronounce correctly
Wonderful video you put together! I grew up to watching him on the pitch was great hearing about his life
I was 10 years old when he refereed BRAZIL VS GERMANY and was like that super happy looking skeleton face referee man is on TV again! He's got a beautiful smile
I always thought this guy looked so intimidating when I was a kid, incredible, didn't know any of this stuff.
Same here! pretty much everything about his look worked to his advantage.
The kind of guy you obey without a second of hesitation.
We love Collina! greetings from🇹🇷
He is someone who is honest and doesnt fuck around, best ref ever.
I can with utmost confidence say that to me Colina was n forever will be the best referee in the history of football
Amazing! Even after his retirement, a new fan right here :)
There never has been and never will be a finer referee, total legend.
Best referee by far I have ever seen and man those eyes scare the hell out of you!
idk man, i could never argue with him, he would just kill me with his menacing stare O.O
I went to an Italian school run by nuns. We got the same menacing stare. Nobody misbehaved... EVER!
Colina should ref every major final
Pierluigi Collina is a man of focus, commitment and sheer will things you sadly know very little of..
back in my 90s schoolboy days.. it is the only refree... that got his own poster in football magazine... and only sir alex n m.lippi that have it,, all the weekly bonus poster are players batistuta, r9, beckham, giggs, del piero, baggio, are those that pop up the most
Yea... I remember ads for world cup where they did show all the stars preparing for the tournament... he was one of the stars :)
I remember when, in 2005, the football federation made it a huge deal that he was going to retire due to his age, so they extended his activity for one year just to give him the chance to be at the 2006 World Cup. And then a huge Scandal at the beginning of the season happened because he appeared in a commercial for one of AC Milan's sponsors so he retired anyway. On the other hand, at least he retired just before Calciopoli.
Watching with watery eyes. Missing you Legend.
Absolute gentleman on and off the pitch, best referee ever .
I thought reference would be made to Atlanta 96 Football finals between Nigeria and Argentina, which Nigeria won. The winning goal was a classic but somehow controversial goal. Colina's ingenuity to ratify the goal, though unprecedented, improved his resume greatly. He's adjudged the fairest referee on the field of play to date.
The replays showed that he was right. Amuneke, who scored the goal, was not the one offside and the replays confirmed it.
I just watched clips of that game and he gave a really easy penalty when Ortega fell for nothing and then again a booking when a sliding tackle hit the ball instead of Ortega who fell. I'm glad there's VAR now for the penalties, although that's not yet working perfectly either. And by the way, it's the assistant referee who flags the offsides, the referee is unable to know if something is an offside or not themselves. In that case, it must have been difficult for the assistant as well, as there were many players standing between him and the players that mattered.
His highest achievement was the only referee cover for PES. Just forget he won 6 times referee award. Legendary
Collina was also very pragmatic and passionate for the Game. He kept the Games going and dynamic as possible. He was strict but fair and he was always in Charge and the Players respected that. It was just much more fun to watch Games like that.
He was brilliant by far the best referee ever, hardly ever got a decision wrong. I remember watching this guy and couldn't believe how he made it look so easy compared to other referees of the world at that time.