A life spent on the Rugby fields, first as a player with good satisfactions and then as a race director. Debora Di Pietro is the first women’s whistle in Messina in the national paintings and referees games both in the women’s Serie A and in men’s Serie B championship.
A path is his initiate out of curiosity as she herself tells us. “I knew some friends who arbitrated and I was struck by their stories. They advised me to try to take the referee, I did it and it was a good experience”. A first impact that makes the difference on the desire to continue. “I started in derogation with the double card of player and referee -continues Di Pietro -. The Sundays that I was not engaged in the games with the club I went to referee in the Under 14 and Under 16 youth championships. Hanging the shoes on the nail, he totally focused on the refereeing because “I wanted to continue to be part of my world, the rugby and continue to hear the perfume of the field. The designations in the Under 18, then in Serie C and from 2024 they gave me the opportunity to referee in the women’s Serie A championship.
The same year I was included in the National Serie B Panel of the men’s sector “. The first match he directed in Female Serie A was the Etneo Briganti Librino-Amatoria Catania derby of 17 November 2024, in Serie B the debut took place on the occasion of Messina Rugby-Arechi. Debora Di Pietro was also designated with nine other colleagues for the national Beach Rugby finals where he also made the judge. Referee has directed the final for 1st place. Being a women’s referee is a source of pride but also of greater responsibilities, I would like many other girls to take this path “.