06/12/2021 15:04
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 06/12/2021 3:12 PM
It was 42 minutes into the first half when
Christian Eriksen
, a midfielder for the Danish national football team, vanished onto the pitch.
His wife, Sabrina Kvist Jensen, became the image of anguish: while her husband was being cared for, she was consoled by the player's teammates.
The 29-year-old attacking midfielder, who plays for Inter Milan and was a Serie A champion, had to be
taken off the pitch with assisted breathing
, on a stretcher and covered with white blankets so that the shocking scenes were not seen. to the world.
Christian Eriksen's wife enters the field of play from one of the stalls.
Photo REUTERS.
Seeing how worrisome the situation was, Christian Eriksen's family invaded the playing field.
Simon Kjaer and Kasper Schmeichel, teammates of the former Tottenham midfielder,
hugged Sabrina Kvist Jensen
, who entered the pitch in tears.
The woman was located in one of the stalls when at the end of the first half in the duel between Denmark and Finland, Eriksen collapsed in the middle of the playing field.
Unconscious and immobile, he immediately alerted his teammates and rivals who called the stadium doctors.
The cry of Eriksen's wife, while they attended to the footballer on the playing field.
AFP photo
Eriksen was not giving good signals.
Doctors tried to resuscitate him, until they began performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) work on him.
His teammates
formed a barrier around the
Inter Milan player so that the cameras did not take that moment.
It was there that Kvist Jensen jumped onto the field in desperation.
Dressed in her husband's shirt and wrapped in tears.
The moment, captured by some television cameras and photographers, reflected the scene of
greatest anguish
in the face of desperation for not knowing what was happening with the footballer.
Simon Kjaer and Kasper Schmeichel comfort Sabrina Kvist Jensen, Eriksen's wife, on the playing field.
Photo REUTERS
It took about 15 minutes since Eriksen collapsed on the playing field until he was removed on a stretcher.
Later UEFA reported through its social networks that the footballer was taken to hospital and is "stable."
Then the Danish Football Federation reported through its social networks that "Christian Eriksen is awake and must undergo further tests in Rigshospitalet."
The hug of Eriksen's companions to his wife, in the midst of the commotion.
Reuters photo
LM
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