Concetto Lo Bello
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox football official Concetto Lo Bello (13 May 1924 – 9 September 1991) was an Italian association football international referee. He holds the record for refereeing the most games in Serie A (328).
His career spanned from 1944 to 1974, refereeing his first international match in 1958.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".[1]
He officiated in 34 international matches, including the West Germany–USSR semi-final in 1966. He had been provisionally chosen to referee the 1970 FIFA World Cup Final, but the Italian team reached the final, so he could not officiate.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Lo Bello also refereed the European Cup finals of 1968 and 1970, as well as the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup 2nd leg final in 1966 and the UEFA Europa League second-leg final in 1974.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
After retirement, he entered politics, as a member of parliament for the Christian Democrat party. He was Minister of Sport for a spell, and, briefly, was Minister for Drought. In 1986, he was elected mayor of Syracuse, but was only in the job for five months. In 2012, he was posthumously inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame.[2]
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