RB Leipzig striker Yussuf Poulsen described the minutes after the collapse of his Danish national team colleague Christian Eriksen at the European Football Championship in moving words. “When we stood around him at the time, we all feared that we might be watching him die. I still remember how each of us whispered or thought: Please do it! ", Said the 27-year-old of the" Mitteldeutsche Zeitung "(Friday). Two weeks ago, Poulsen was shown the drama again in a TV review. “Then the subject came back. It was tough to watch because all the emotions from the day came back. "
Eriksen had collapsed in the first half of a cardiac arrest in the first European Championship game against Finland in Copenhagen and had to be reanimated on the pitch.
His teammates around Poulsen had formed a circle around their star to protect him from glances and cameras in the situation.
“Thank goodness he did it, so we can all talk about it more or less normally because it's basically a good story.
Good, because most of the people would have died in Christian's situation, ”said Poulsen.
“He was lucky that it happened during the game and everything was close by to bring him back immediately.
If it had happened to him in the living room, he would not be there now. "
Eriksen was given a defibrillator.
The 29-year-old is now in advanced training at his home club Odense BK.
Eriksen recently terminated his contract with Inter Milan because he was not allowed to play with a defibrillator in the Italian Serie A.