Christian Eriksen

[carmeldevil]

There is a hockey player from Canada that played for many years - missed zero games until not too long ago (performance related). So he was considered one of the strongest players. Yet he had a heart issue while playing for my favorite hockey team and almost died. Thankfully he was on the bench when he had the heart issue and was able to be saved. But he had to retire after getting a special device implanted to monitor his heart. He along with every other player had physicals every year and all that and yet it was overlooked.

Heart monitoring and exams are not precise - issues can be overlooked for a variety of reasons. It happens. Rare thankfully but it does happen. Just glad Christian along with this hockey player was near a medical team when it happened rather than elsewhere far from critical care.

 

[jay2040]

As a wrestling fan I have seen my fair share of athletes having to retire prematurely due to health issues. As much as I love watching them do what they do, and I'd certainly miss seeing Eriksen ping a ball, I would rather he live a long, happy, healthy live with his wife and children.

Just out of curiosity do you mean WWE?

 

[jay2040]

I just don't see the need to speculate before any facts emerge. It's how nonsense like the vaccine stuff gets started.

The vaccine- what the fuxk!

 

[fecka]

Likewise I wasn't having a go at you. Some people have been wondering what happened and why to a healthy athlete. Some can give the answer that with CPR and defibrillation it's Cardiac Arrest. Using the Defrib it stops the heart and puts it back into the correct rythm. This appears what happened to Christian,and why he left the stadium awake. I'll leave it there.

The danish team doctor has confirmed Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest and was gone before the first defib.
How he actually got a cardiac arrest, however, remains a mystery and is what they’re currently looking for.

 

[thekneaf]

Positive message on his official Instagram account

 

[Marty]

I just want to have one more go at the TV production, based on what's circulating in my workplace (as we are 50% rights holders in Norway) right now.

First off, I falsely accused the production leader of being Danish on Saturday and Sunday. He isn't, he is French and no less than the match director who directed the World Cup final at France '98, the tournament that set the standard for TV production of football matches that we still broadly follow to this day. So one of the most experienced football match directors in the world decided to take an extremely invasive stance to basically broadcast everything. It was frighteningly callous and did not adhere to UEFA's broadcast standards for the tournament at all.

It was this director who was interviewed in L'Equipe, English transcription here. And in this interview, he lies.

Jean-Jacques Amsellem explains decision-making of broadcast of Christian Eriksen collapse – Get French Football News

www.getfootballnewsfrance.com

He says

- As you can imagine, there is no handbook for these sorts of things. (…) If someone had told me ‘‘Stick with the wide shot” , I would have.

And the reason I know he lies, is that this is from UEFA's broadcasting handbook

'Match directors should be sensitive to the following controversial match circumstances: serious injuries to players; violent or abusive behaviour by players; a lack of respect for match officials. (...) If any such incidents have an impact on the field of play, they may need to be covered. However, general principles of taste, neutrality and decency should prevail. For instance, a wide shot used purely to establish what is happening avoids giving any incident undue prominence. The overriding principle remains “if in doubt, leave it out”.'

So not only has this man, one of the most experienced directors in the world, gone off script and standard. He's lied to the media about his reasons for doing so.

You can possibly blame the BBC a bit for reacting slowly to the mistakes the match director was making, but they were hoodwinked by a director who broke all broadcasting codes and standards. One thing I hope and think we can be sure of is that this callous and inhumane production will not happen again.

Get well soon, Christian.

 

[easley91]

Just out of curiosity do you mean WWE?

And other companies.

 

[easley91]

 

[C0YS]

Not sure what other options could have been. More than 24 hours would have been too close to the next game.

You could have, I dunno, delayed the tournament? You could have scheduled the game to be after the rest of the group games?

Its only 50 mins it’s not hard to fit in somewhere, and as much of a logistical nightmare it might be there are plenty of solutions, and the solutions should not be rushed. Bringing an extra day of break or something like that in the tournament is a pain logistically and ticket wise? But frankly these things are beyond football and maintains the well-being of people is more important, they shouldn’t have played, simple, everything else isn’t that important, you can’t pressure vulnerable people in that way, and frankly they shouldn’t even have been given a decision.

 

[Harrier]

So pleased to hear he’s on the mend ?

I lost what little respect I had remaining for the BBC with their coverage of the incident.

Even their Radio 2 programming yesterday was a phone in ‘should we have continued with the coverage or not?’

Most people seemed to think they should of which surprised me considering the online public condemnation - probably vetted the callers in advance!!

Would they have thought the same if the outcome on the pitch had been tragically different?!

 

[wpmcg]

You could have, I dunno, delayed the tournament? You could have scheduled the game to be after the rest of the group games?

Its only 50 mins it’s not hard to fit in somewhere, and as much of a logistical nightmare it might be there are plenty of solutions, and the solutions should not be rushed. Bringing an extra day of break or something like that in the tournament is a pain logistically and ticket wise? But frankly these things are beyond football and maintains the well-being of people is more important, they shouldn’t have played, simple, everything else isn’t that important, you can’t pressure vulnerable people in that way, and frankly they shouldn’t even have been given a decision.

So Denmark just have to say we can't think about this now, we'll give you a decision tomorrow. But we may not be prepared to play at 12 noon. The ball is then in Uefas court. There would be a major backlash if they tried to punish Denmark.

 

[C0YS]

So Denmark just have to say we can't think about this now, we'll give you a decision tomorrow. But we may not be prepared to play at 12 noon. The ball is then in Uefas court. There would be a major backlash if they tried to punish Denmark.

Denmark were not in a position where they could make any clear decision whatsoever, UEFA needed to take initiative and suspend the game before even considering any further actions.

 

[tototoner]

Christian Eriksen has been told by doctors that he may not play football again at the highest level but a move back to Spurs is possible

 

[HNIM]

Not biting, bud. There's a thread for that kind of talk, and there's a reason I actively avoid it.

As for the bold bit. No!

Thank the real people who literally saved his life in front of the world.

And add to that, thank the thousands of researchers and practioners over many decades who developed the understanding, technology, and methods for recognizing and treating it effectively.

 

[easley91]

^
I'm not quoting it. That isn't funny.

 

[Timbo Tottenham]

Christian Eriksen has been told by doctors that he may not play football again at the highest level but a move back to Spurs is possible

 

[Marty]

Eriksen's doctor has revealed the first words Eriksen said when he woke up lying there on the pitch.

For faen, jeg er kun 29 år gammel

English translation: For fuck's sake, I'm just 29 years old

And he needs a heart starter, no idea what that means in terms of his career but that really is secondary to everything now.

 

[spursfan77]

Poor guy. That’s his career over. Fortunately from the mental point of view he knows someone in Ryan Mason who has gone through a similar situation and will be able to give him help and advice.

I think why it happened and the rest of the details should be kept private now though. It’s not really fair to him to have everything out in the public.

I am sure he will be welcome back at Spurs any time he wants.

 

[thebenjamin]

Daley Blind plays with that same device.

 

[Sanj]

Poor guy. That’s his career over. Fortunately from the mental point of view he knows someone in Ryan Mason who has gone through a similar situation and will be able to give him help and advice.

I think why it happened and the rest of the details should be kept private now though. It’s not really fair to him to have everything out in the public.

I am sure he will be welcome back at Spurs any time he wants.

Isn't there a player in the dutch league who had an ICD fitted and then carried on playing - His heart stopped in a subsequent game and the ICD restarted his heart.
I don't know if that's advisable - and Christian seems like the kind of person who'd do the right thing by him and his family.

Whether he plays again or not - i'm just so pleased to see him smiling again !!!

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