Career
He is fluent in Italian, English and French. He started refereeing in 1983, and took charge of his first match in the Italian Serie A in 1996. He received his Fédération internationale de football association Badge in 2002.
Aside from his referee-duties, Rosetti works as director of a hospital.
Rosetti is counted amongst the top referees of all time in a list maintained by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS). Moggi also claimed that Rosetti and Collina should be "punished" for decisions made against Juventus in that same phonecall.
Rosetti emerged from the scandal unscathed. Rosetti was one of the many referees who officiated over the Union of European Football Associations Champions League 2007-2008.
He refereed the semi-final between Chelsea and Liverpool at Stamford Bridge, earning the praise of United Kingdom television and radio commentators for his control of the game.
Prior to the match, Liverpool coach Rafael Benítez had noted that the home side tends to emerge victorious when Rosetti referees. Rosetti was selected to referee at Union of European Football Associations in Switzerland and Austria. At the tournament, Rosetti was the referee for the: group A opening game between Switzerland and the Czechoslovakian Republic.
Group Doctorate game between Greece and Russia.
Quarter Final match between Croatia and Turkey Final match between Germany and Spain. Rosetti was one of the many referees who officiated over the Union of European Football Associations Champions League 2008-2009.
He attracted criticism for sending off Manchester United"s Darren Fletcher during the second leg of the semi-final between Manchester United and Arsenal. Rosetti allegedly saw Fletcher clip the back heel of Cesc Fàbregas, with Fàbregas falling in the penalty area.
Replays later showed that Fletcher had touched the ball prior to fouling Fàbregas but he was still forced to miss the final.
Nonetheless, Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson refused to blame Rosetti afterwards, concluding that it was simply "terribly unlucky." Retired English World Cup referee Graham Poll has since suggested that the referee was right to issue a red card as the fact that Fletcher touched the ball while committing the foul was in fact irrelevant under Fédération internationale de football association"s revised law. His first match of the tournament was a 1-1 draw between Ghana and Australia. Rosetti made a crucial decision in the game, when he judged Australia"s Harry Kewell to have handled the ball on the goal line, contentiously awarding Ghana a penalty kick as well as sending Kewell off for the offence.
In his post match comments, Australian coach Pim Verbeek claimed Kewell"s handball was a mistake, saying it was impossible for him to get out of the way and the only way he could do so was to cut his arm official
The next game he refereed was the Argentina–Mexico game in the Round of 16, where he decided to allow an offside goal his assistant referee Stefano Ayroldi missed. The following day, Rosetti was left off the list of 19 referees announced by Fédération internationale de football association to take part in the rest of the competition although football"s world governing body did not explain why.
This decision affected Rosetti greatly and was the major reason behind his retirement.