Gianluca Rocchi

Gianluca Rocchi (2017)

Gianluca Rocchi (born August 25, 1973 in Florence ) is an Italian football referee .

career

Rocchi began his professional football referee career in 2000 in Serie C ; its first use in the Serie A was on the final day of the 2003/04 season, the 2: 1 victory of US Lecce against Reggina Calcio on 16 May 2004. The following season he came to three, in the 2005/06 season on eleven missions. In the following two seasons he regularly whistled Serie A games, a total of 38, including two derbies between Juventus and FC Turin and between Lazio and AS Roma . in the 2007/08 season he also led the prestige duel between Juventus Turin and Inter Milan . So far he has made a total of 56 appearances in Serie A. (As of October 19, 2008)

Since the beginning of 2008 Rocchi has been whistling international encounters; so he was in qualifying matches for the U-19 and U-21 European Championships . He was also in charge of two UEFA Cup qualifying games as well as VfL Wolfsburg's 1-0 home win against Rapid Bucharest in the first round of the competition . He was also the referee of the 3-1 victory of FC Schalke 04 against Paris Saint-Germain in the 2008/09 UEFA Cup on October 23, 2008. In the 2010/11 Champions League , he was referee for the first game of Schalke scheduled in the group stage against Benfica Lisbon .

In the summer of 2012 he first accompanied Nicola Rizzoli as a gate judge to the European Championship and then took to the field himself at the Olympic Games in London .

On September 17, 2013, Rocchi led the first encounter in the group stage of the 2013/14 UEFA Champions League of FC Bayern Munich against PFK ZSKA Moscow . In October 2014 Rocchi whistled the match between Juventus Turin and AS Roma , which even kept parliament busy because of wrong decisions.

After Nicola Rizzoli had represented Italy as a referee at major tournaments for years, Rocchi received his first nomination for a major FIFA men's tournament in 2017 with his appointment as one of nine referees at the 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup in Russia . FIFA nominated him for the 2018 World Cup on March 29, 2018 . Elenito Di Liberatore and Mauro Tonolini accompanied him as assistants .

On May 13, 2019, UEFA nominated him for the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League final between Chelsea FC and Arsenal FC on May 29, 2019 in Baku, Azerbaijan . On the sidelines he was supported by Filippo Meli and Lorenzo Manganelli, while Daniele Orsato took over the role of fourth official . Massimiliano Irrati was the video referee.

Bets in tournaments

Appearances at the Olympic Football Tournament 2012

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	July 26, 2012	Cardiff	Brazil	Egypt	3: 2 (3: 0)
Semifinals	0Aug 7, 2012	London	Mexico	Japan	3: 1 (1: 1)

Appearances at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2017

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 21, 2017	Moscow	Russia	Portugal	0: 1 (0: 1)
Group stage	June 25, 2017	Moscow	Chile	Australia	1: 1 (0: 1)

Appearances at the Football World Cup 2018

phase	date	Venue	Home team	Visiting team	Result
Group stage	June 15, 2018	Sochi	Portugal	Spain	3: 3 (2: 1)
Group stage	June 24, 2018	Ekaterinburg	Japan	Senegal	2: 2 (1: 1)
Round of 16	02nd July 2018	Samara	Brazil	Mexico	2: 0 (0: 0)

Awards

• Referee of the Year : 2018

Web links

• Profile at transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gianluca Rocchi heads Schalke versus Benfica ( Memento from September 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), website of FC Schalke 04 from September 27, 2010
2. ↑ http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/intligen/startseite/612990/artikel_der-feurige-kracher-kapitel-zwei_totti-in-rage.htm (link not available)
3. ↑ FIFA Confederations Cup 2017 - Referees , on fifa.com. Retrieved June 19, 2017.
4. ↑ List of Match Officials for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. (PDF; 262 KB) (No longer available online.) FIFA, March 29, 2018, archived from the original on March 30, 2018 ; accessed on May 5, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Referee team appointed for UEFA Europa League final in Baku. UEFA, May 13, 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 .