According to the evaluators of the International Federation of Football History and Statistics, the best referee in the world is a French lawyer, married father of three children, born on May 16, 1982 in Oullins near Lyon. Turpin gave up playing amateur football at the age of 19 and worked his way up as a referee until 2008 from the lower ranks to the highest level of French Ligue 1, where he still referees today. In 2010, he landed on the Fifa list and in the 2010/2011 season began refereeing matches in the Europa League. In May 2016, the French Football Federation named Turpin the best French referee for the first time. In the same year, he refereed at the Euro in France, and in 2017 at the World Cadet Championship in India. In 2018, he officiated at the World Cup in Russia, in 2021 the Europa League final between Villarreal and Manchester United, and a year later the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid. In 2024, he refereed at Euro 2024 in Germany. Now it also works in the USA. He refereed eleven matches at the European and World Championships, a number that will surely increase this year.
