People MARCELLO LIPPI Marcello Lippi, born in 1948, ended his career as a football player in 1982 to continue working as a football coach. The turning point of his career came when he led the Naples Football Club to compete for the UEFA Cup in the 1993-94 season. In the following years, Lippi achieved his best results as a club coach with Juventus Football Club, leading them from 1994 to 1999 and from 2001 to 2004. In those years, the club won five Serie A titles, the UEFA Champions League in 1996, the UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup in the same year. He also led them to win the Coppa Italia and four Italian Super Cups. However, his most important achievement came in 2006 as the coach of the Italian National Football team, who won the FIFA World Cup in Germany. This victory gave Lippi a place in the history of football; his ability to unify the teams he led and get the best out of his players is widely recognised among football fans. PIERLUIGI COLLINA Pierluigi Collina was born in 1960. At 17 years old, he took a referee s course, where he proved particularly suitable for the job. Three years later, he was officiating at the highest level of regional matches; in 1988, he progressed very rapidly to Serie C1 and Serie C2. After three seasons, he was promoted to officiate Serie B and Serie A matches. In 1995, after refereeing 43 Serie A matches, he was placed on FIFA s Referees List; he was then assigned five matches at the 1996 Olympic Games and he officiated the 1999 UEFA Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Manchester United. The top moment of his career was in 2002, when he was chosen to referee the World Cup final between Brazil and Germany. During his career, which lasted until 2005, Collina was named The World s Best Referee by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics for six consecutive times. Today, he is still a consultant to the Associazione Italiana Arbitri (AIA). CARLO VITTORI Carlo Vittori was born in 1931 and died in 2015. He was the Italian champion in the 100 metres in 1952 and 1953, and competed in this event at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. After the end of his competitive career, he became a coach and worked as a technical director for FIDAL (Italian Athletics Federation) from 1969 to 1986. Vittori became well-known for coaching Pietro Mennea, the legendary Italian sprinter who held the world record in the 200 metres for many years and whose time of 19.72 seconds is still the European record on that length. Their coach-athlete relationship is considered one of the most successful in Italian sports history and became a model to look up to. For his achievements as a coach, Vittori was awarded the Quercia al Merito di III° grado, the most important honour awarded by Italian athletics. 124 PHySICAL EdUCATION