Denmark ended the game against Finland after the shock to Christian Eriksen.
Peter Schmeichel reveals how the decision was made.
And is pissed off.
Copenhagen - The European Football Championship * is overshadowed by the drama about Christian Eriksen.
Denmark's * football legend Peter Schmeichel is furious at Uefa.
The ex-national goalkeeper completely condemns the reaction to Christian Eriksen's collapse in the game against Finland.
"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.
EM 2021: Denmark continues to play after Eriksen's collapse - Schmeichel reveals background details
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 amazes many.
Michael Ballack is also incomprehensible *.
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 shock: Denmark pushed to continue the game?
Schmeichel rages over Uefa "option"
“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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