14 Facts About Roberto Rosetti

Roberto Rosetti was born on 18 September 1967 and is an Italian former football referee.

Roberto Rosetti is fluent in Italian, English and French.

Roberto Rosetti started refereeing in 1983, and took charge of his first match in the Italian Serie A in 1996.

Roberto Rosetti is counted amongst the top referees of all time in a list maintained by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics.

Roberto Rosetti retired following the 2010 FIFA World Cup to take a position with the Italian Football Federation as the referee designator for Serie B League.

Roberto Rosetti is currently the Chief Refereeing Officer and Chairman of the Referees Committee at UEFA.

Roberto Rosetti refereed the semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge.

Roberto Rosetti was selected to referee at UEFA Euro 2008 in Switzerland and Austria.

Roberto Rosetti was preselected as a referee for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Roberto Rosetti sent Australia's Harry Kewell off for handling the ball on the goal line, awarding Ghana a penalty kick.

Roberto Rosetti was later left off the list of 19 referees announced by FIFA to take part in the rest of the competition although football's world governing body did not explain why.

Roberto Rosetti was hired by the Russian Football Union in 2011 to oversee the domestic referees' department but resigned in 2013 for family reasons.

In 2018, UEFA announced that Roberto Rosetti would become their Chief Refereeing Officer and Chairman of the Referees Committee, succeeding Pierluigi Collina, who became chairman of FIFA's referees committee.

Collina assigned Roberto Rosetti to be the VAR Refereeing Project Leader at the 2018 FIFA World Cup to help implement the VAR system.