Italian referee Roberto Rosetti has been chosen to referee the European championship final on June 29 in Vienna, UEFA said Monday.
He is the second Italian to get a major tournament's top spot since Pierluigi Collina who reffed the 2002 World Cup Final between Brazil and Germany.
Rosetti, 40, is a 1.9m (6ft3in) hospital director from Turin who is fluent in English and French.
He has refereed three matches at Euro 2008: the opening game between Switzerland the Czech Republic; the Group D match between Greece and Russia; and the quarter-final between Croatia and Turkey, in which he waved off Croatian protests about added time when Turkey scored with the last kick of the game, taking it to a penalty shoot-out they won.
Rosetti officiated at four games at the 2006 World Cup including France's 3-1 Round of Sixteen win over Spain.
He was praised for letting games flow and not being quick to book players. He finished the tournament with the second lowest rate of use of the card, 3.75 per match. He also earned praise for his control of last April's European Champions League semi-final game between Chelsea and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge.
In 2006 Rosetti emerged unscathed from Italy's Calciopoli scandal after he and now-retired 'super-ref' Collina were slammed in a police intercept of the ringleader's phone as being ''too objective''.
Sunday Euro 2008 final will be between the winner of Wednesday's semi-final between Germany and Turkey and the winner of Thursday's semi-final between Russia and Spain. photo: Rosetti at Euro 2008 Group D match between Greece and Russia.
