The skilled Slovakian referee Ivan Kruzliak will referee Austria’s last European Championship group match towards the Netherlands in Berlin on Tuesday (6 p.m./stay ServusTV).
For the 40-year-old from Bratislava, will probably be the third worldwide match involving the ÖFB males. In 2016, beneath Kruzliak’s management, there was a 2-1 victory within the European Championship take a look at towards Albania in Vienna, and in October 2021 there was a 0-1 defeat towards Denmark within the World Cup qualifier in Copenhagen.
Kruzliak has been a FIFA referee since 2011. Final Wednesday, he refereed his first match at a serious last event, Scotland’s European Championship group match towards Switzerland (1:1).
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Fast has good reminiscences of the Slovakian. Kruzliak refereed the third spherical second leg of the Champions League qualification at Ajax Amsterdam on August 4, 2015, when Louis Schaub shot the Hütteldorfers to a 3-2 away win and into the play-offs.
Kruzliak refereed Sturm Graz’s dwelling return match towards Dynamo Kiev in the identical interval two years in the past. The Graz workforce misplaced 1-2 following further time following successful 1-0 in common time.
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Kruzliak was born close to the Austrian border and likewise has a connection to Austria as a participant – from 2003 to 2004 he was the goalkeeper for the primary workforce of the Decrease Austrian novice membership Sportfreunde Berg.
After tearing his cruciate ligament, he ended his profession and have become a referee, however following that he performed a number of extra instances for the Sportfreunde reserves. In keeping with the membership, his participant move remains to be in Berg.
