Referee Of The Year by Mike Moore
‘Referee Of The Year’
Portraits, second prize singles
23-09-2003
Italian soccer referee Pierluigi Collina. Collina, who officiated at the 2002 World Cup final between Germany and Brazil, had already four times been voted 'Referee of the Year' by the FIFA international football association. He announced that he would be stepping down in 2005. He will be 45, the mandatory retirement age for referees. He expressed his reluctance to go, but noted that people in his profession had to be bound by the rules. Collina is popular off the pitch, too, and has appeared in advertising, on the fashion catwalk and in several television shows.
Commissioned by:Daily Mirror
Photo Credit: Mike Moore
Mike Moore has been a Fleet Street Photographer for over 30 years, specializing in conflict and the 3rd World. During this time he has been British Press Photographer of the Year 3 times, twice Royal Photographer of the Year, News Photographer of the Year, Feature Photographer of the Year and the winner of 2 World Press Awards.
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