Christian Eriksen’s collapse on the field towards the end of the first half of Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 clash against Finland on Saturday wasn’t the first for world football. It won’t be the last either.The star midfielder needed 13 minutes of CPR from the medical staff at the stadium before being revived. In the words of Denmark’s team doctor Morten Boesen, “he was gone”.Eriksen is lucky to be alive.Ask the families of Marc Vivien Foe (Cameroon), Dani Puerta (Spain), and Bruno Boban (Croatia), all of whom lost their lives on the field. All three died of cardiac arrest. In the…
Author: Marcus
Sunil Chhetri, along with the rest of his teammates at Bengaluru FC, wakes up every morning to a beautiful view at the tempting Vainguinim beach. The captain of India’s football team and the second highest international goal-scorer amongst active footballers – ahead of Lionel Messi and behind Cristiano Ronaldo — is living his life inside a bio-secure bubble just like the other sportspersons these days. Ever since the coronavirus pandemic brought the sporting world to a halt, the bio-secure bubble has become the norm. It’s an artificial environment cut off from the contact of the outside world.…