OT - Euro 2020 - Scary scene with Denmark’s Eriksen
I also saw that happen. I would subtitle your post, “Health care worker appreciation thread,” because they saved his life. There was a close-up on the player just after he went down. There was no life in his eyes.
Didn't see it live but I heard they were applying CPR on the field. Good to hear from his dad that Christian is awake and speaking now. Heard that during a later broadcast.
That definitely made it worse to see him lying there with his eyes open and no response to people moving his head around to see if he was breathing! My first thought was an aneurism or stroke. In the picture ESPN posted of them taking him off the field, he looks better.
Frightening to say the least. You can see the medics initiate chest compressions at 1:55 of this clip.
EDIT: Looks like UEFA is aggressively taking down clips of the incident, which I get.
Just glad this was posted twice, with two different spellings of the guy's name, and no link or video to go on in either post.
Classic MGo post.
Sorry about that. I couldn’t edit to fix it.
Maybe spend 30 seconds to get it right in the first place before hitting the submit button?
Maybe don't blast the guy for making a mistake? It happens.
I posted a thread a few years ago that Charles Mathews was returning based on an unverified twitter account.
We all make mistakes.
“He’s an angry elf!”
But those 30 seconds could mean that someone beats him/her to the post.
And we wonder why mgoblog isn’t attracting new posters and engagement is down. Thanks dbags for showing your true colors in a post about a guy almost dying.
And we wonder why mgoblog isn’t attracting new posters and engagement is down.
For me, it's mostly because of the shitty, uninformative posts like these that have no links, videos, pics of what happened. I come here, see a post about this guy almost dying, and have no idea what OP is talking about since there is no background or news story included. I usually don't care enough to go to google/research what happened and why and then return to the thread.
Posts that provide background info and interesting links/vids/pics generally have way more engagement than those that don't.
So no, I don't wonder why the blog isn't attracting new posters and engagement is down. It's pretty obvious to see why. Better, more engaging/informative forum posts will create more traffic and people wanting to discuss the topics presented. One-sentence forum posts with no links or background info and shitty clickbait titles aren't going to make people want to sign up and discuss anything.
Horrific to watch. He was down two minutes before they started CPR. You could see them defribulate him after another minute and a half and they were still administering CPR another two minutes later. Not sure what else happened before they took him off in the stretcher but he was conscious by then. Doctors on here could probably explain what was going on. So glad to hear he is awake in the hospital and apparently messaging friends.
Didn't see video, but I'd assume he still had a pulse if they weren't doing chest compressions for the first couple minutes, and then lost one after.
If he was defibrillated, he had a shockable rhythm, which is a good thing.
Total speculation but most likely scenario in a 29 year old is a conduction abnormality or structural heart disease. Hoping for a speedy recovery!
I didn't see it, but hearing this reminds me of Jiri Fisher's cardiac arrest on the ice at the Joe. It immediately ended his career, and he's now a player personnel director with the Wings.
Good luck to Eriksen with his recovery - very glad he was revived at the scene.
That was so shocking when Fischer went down. Such a huge loss to the team. Big strong rock on the blue line that was just entering the prime years of his career.
The one shot they had of him was a really tough thing to see. His eyes were basically lifeless, and a couple more camera angles later showed them doing serious CPR.
One of the announcers mentioned that he's played like 3 games in 10 days or something, which is just an asinine stretch of soccer. I know these guys are all gods of fitness for the most part, but even that's too much.
3 games in 10 days is pretty much how tournament soccer goes. This is probably one of those cases where he had an undiagnosed condition and it just reared its head all of a sudden.
Very possible. I may have heard the announcer wrong. Maybe he played a few times in the last 10 days BEFORE this tournament? I know a lot of guys typically take a month or two off before a big competition.
The season ended less than a month ago and the national teams have been playing friendlies to gear up for the Euros in the weeks since then.
This.
In my beer league tourneys we'll do 4 games in 3 days.
So- no offense, but these are slightly different levels of competition.
3 games in 10 days is nothing special. That's literally every other week in the season for a player at the top level.
Eriksen played his last game of the season at the club level 19 days ago. Denmark played two warm-up matches before the Euro. The last one six days ago. Eriksen was subbed after 60 minutes in that one.
Game load had nothing to do with it. It's extremely likely to be the result of an underlying condition.
Sitting there watching it, it felt like the worst thing I'd ever seen. Obviously that's not true--I've seen too many clips of bombings and the like--but it was horrific. I'm glad the CPR worked because I was convinced we'd just watched the guy die in real time. Hopefully he continues to get better and stops playing if he needs to in order to be healthy.
That said, I also think it must've been an underlying condition. But it's hard to imagine a guy that valuable having an underlying condition that his doctors never found. He switched clubs in 2020 so he should've been very seriously examined then. I read that he never had coronavirus, but I find myself wondering whether he could be one of those cases of post-coronavirus heart issues we heard so much about when they were delaying B1G football.
But it's hard to imagine a guy that valuable having an underlying condition that his doctors never found. He switched clubs in 2020 so he should've been very seriously examined then.
Diagnosing these things can be tricky. Many people have slight abnormalities that turn out to be nothing. Often, it's only after a cardiac episode that you can connect the dots and recognize in hindsight that there was an issue.
The Danish coach said that Eriksen has not had Covid or gotten the vaccine. There can be other explanations (he had some other type of infection, or took some medication/drug that interacted badly with his system...) but I think the most likely is that he had this condition and it just came to the fore now.
Many people say they've never had covid. I don't know how anyone knows. During the early going where I am, tests weren't available unless you were hospitalized. So I always say I have no idea when people ask me if I've had it.
I guess guys like Eriksen might've been in testing regimes throughout the entire pandemic, so they could actually know.
Different levels of competition with different levels of fitness as well. So IMO it is a fair comparison.
Watched it live. There were a couple head to head collisions a few minutes before this. I just assumed it was another one. But to see him receive the throw-in and just collapse was horrifying.
This was the game where the team who took ONE SHOT ALL GAME.. WON THE GAME!!
A friend of mine is in Italy now and texted me that on Italian radio they are saying Eriksen had the Pfizer shot recently.
And his coach and his team's medical staff have publicly stated that he has not been vaccinated at all. So no need to amplify (even if you weren't specifically meaning to endorse), baseless Italian radio antivax rumors.