Latvian officials for Celtic 2nd leg
- adamhigginsuk
- Jul 22, 2014
- 2 min read
The men in charge: The Latvian team of match officials will be the decision makers in Celtic's Champions League tie at Murrayfield (Picture from WorldReferee.com)
LATVIAN referee Andris Treimanis will take charge of the second leg of Celtic's Champions League qualifier with KR Reykjavik.
The 29-year-old will be in the middle for the second qualifying round tie which is taking place at Murrayfield in Edinburgh, with Celtic Park unavailable because of the Commonwealth Games.
He will be assisted by fellow countrymen with Haralds Gudermanis and Aleksejs Spasjonnikovs the linesman while fourth official Vadims Direktorenko completes the officiating team.
Treimanis, who is also a lawyer, is one of the youngest and most inexperienced names on the Fifa list - which he joined in January 2011.
The Uefa Category Three official began refereeing from the age of 13 and was promoted to the Latvian national division seven years later.
Since then, he has received over 100 games, issuing more than 500 yellow cards and 30 red cards.
His most high-profile match to the date was handling Spain's 5-0 friendly victory over Lithuania in Malaga in February 2012.
It is only the second time he will officiate a Champions League match after overseeing a first round qualifier between FC Gomel and Vikingur in July 2012.
Kuldiga-born Treimanis has an impressive range of linguistics, with an ability to speak his mother tongue Latvian, English, German and Russian.
Celtic hold a 1-0 lead from the first leg in Iceland last week courtesy of a late deflected strike from Calum McGregor on his first competitive start.
The second leg will kick off at 19:45 BST on 22 July with the winners of the tie set to face Legia Warsaw or St Patrick's Athletic in the next qualifying round.
? DID YOU KNOW ?
Referee Treimanis combines his international officiating career with his job as a lawyer for the Latvian national TV VSIA Latvijas Televizija in Riga.
Last updated: 22 July 2014 16:55pm
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