Helmut Kohl (8 February 1943 – 26 September 1991) was an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

n football referee and

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best known for officiating three matches in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in

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and also the 1990 European Cup Final. He died little over a year later at the age of 48.

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