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Gab & Juls Meet: Pierluigi Collina

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Sports, Soccer

4.32.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Gab Marcotti and Julien Laurens are joined by legendary referee and Chairman of the FIFA referees committee, Pierluigi Collina, to discuss the role of the officials at the Qatar World Cup, his memories from the 2002 World Cup final & his love of basketball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Their skiff'd have ever received has to be a bike when I was younger, a pedal bike.

0:07.0

It was a sort of slick little road bike and I remember it was all like, it was so, it was all wrapped up,

0:13.0

it was so obvious what it was obviously because nothing shaped like a bike and I had a little ribbon on it and I was so

0:17.0

a guess. For that was a life changer and I'm still sort of big on cycling around my area now so, for that one change really low.

0:24.0

Enjoy in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks.

0:41.0

Welcome to another Gavin Joules meets Joules World Cup controversy referees always happens.

0:49.0

So, you and I decided to have a little chat with this man.

0:56.0

And I think a former referee in the 2002 World Cup final check, a bunch of things, yes.

1:03.0

I think a lot of people played. Yeah, sometimes on the field of play.

1:10.0

But once it's twice, I want to get right into it because the World Cup is a showcase for the best players, the best teams that qualify, unlike Italy.

1:23.0

But it's also the best referees. The referees are selected.

1:28.0

Referees come from every confederation.

1:31.0

I don't think everybody understands how the process works.

1:35.0

So, can you tell us, I presume you don't choose by yourself.

1:40.0

You have a group that monitors and looks at referees, right?

1:45.0

Yeah, and it was not even a lottery.

1:49.0

We started the selection process a few months after the World Cup 2018 was over.

1:58.0

We started a project called Road to Qatar 2022.

2:04.0

So, we identified quite a big number of referees from all over the world.

2:13.0

And we start working with them.

2:17.0

But then, unfortunately, our plans needed to be amended due to the pandemic.

2:24.0

We had some issues.

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