Christian Eriksen collapsed in the game against Finland.
Denmark then continued the European Championship game.
Peter Schmeichel raises serious allegations.
Copenhagen - The drama about Christian Eriksen overshadows the European Football Championship *.
The midfield star from Denmark collapsed in the game against Finland and had to be reanimated on the field.
Denmark's football legend Peter Schmeichel was pissed off a day later.
The former national goalkeeper cannot understand the reaction of Uefa to the collapse of Eriksen.
"It is absolutely ridiculous that Uefa came up with a solution like this," complains goalie father Kasper Schmeichel on the British radio station
BBC 5
.
Christian Eriksen fought for his life at the European Championship match on the pitch.
Fortunately, the team doctors succeeded in resuscitation.
The Inter-Star is currently in a hospital in Copenhagen.
Denmark against Finland: EM game continues after Eriksen resuscitation - Schmeichel reveals background information
Then the game went on.
Probably at the request of Eriksen and the teams.
The game ended 1-0 for outsiders Finland.
But that the whistle actually started again at all surprised many.
The spectators * were asked beforehand not to leave the stadium.
Flattery rages.
He criticizes a lack of compassion.
The former Manchester United goalkeeper names the background details that make him mad.
"Then something terrible like that happens and Uefa gives the players the choice to go out and play the last 55 minutes to the end," he describes, "or
to return
today
(Sunday, usually)
at 12 noon."
Eriksen-Schock: Denmark continues game after treatment - did you have little choice?
“What kind of option is that?” Foams the European champions from 1992. If the players had pleaded for the continuation the next day, they would have gone back to their hotel after the demolition, Schmeichel outlines, would not have slept because of the trauma and would then have to sitting on the bus to the stadium again at eight o'clock in the morning.
“That wasn't an option.
That was a ridiculous decision by UEFA, ”says Schmeichel.
The ZDF also has to take severe criticism.
Broadcasting the Eriksen reanimation live on TV is what Frank Überall, chairman of the German Association of Journalists, calls "irresponsible and voyeuristic."
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