Interest in CPR and defibrillators has been pulling the attention of Danes away from soccer바카라s European Championship since the collapse of Christian Eriksen.
Christian Eriksen, widely regarded as Denmark's best player, was resuscitated with a defibrillator and was in stable condition in a Copenhagen hospital on Monday
Interest in CPR and defibrillators has been pulling the attention of Danes away from soccer바카라s European Championship since the collapse of Christian Eriksen.
The tournament, with the national team playing all three of its group games at home in Copenhagen, was supposed to create a two-week party in the capital 바카라 with many hoping Denmark would be able to repeat its improbable triumph from the 1992 tournament.
But Eriksen fell face-forward onto the field with cardiac arrest during the team바카라s opening game against Finland on Saturday. And suddenly a large portion of Denmark바카라s 6 million people were watching live on TV as one of the country바카라s best-known athletes was given emergency CPR, his teammates standing around him with tears in their eyes.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called it "a national shock."
"Rarely has it been less important whether a football match was won or lost," Frederiksen wrote on Facebook.
Eriksen, widely regarded as Denmark's best player, was resuscitated with a defibrillator and was in stable condition in a Copenhagen hospital on Monday.
But the national shock hasn't quite dissipated.
Eriksen's collapse remains the talk of the nation. Many wonder how it could happen to such a healthy player. And a debate is still raging over whether the game should have been called off. It was suspended for about 90 minutes before resuming, having been stopped near the end of the first half. Finland went on to score in the second half and won 1-0.
The interest among Danes in learning CPR and how to use a defibrillator has skyrocketed. A national organization that puts up defibrillators across the country said more than 640 people have volunteered to learn how to use one since Saturday 바카라 compared to 90 the previous weekend.
There also has been widespread anger in Denmark toward European soccer governing body UEFA for only giving the players the option of either finishing the game on Saturday evening or resuming on Sunday at noon instead.
The players themselves on Monday said they didn바카라t want to resume but thought it was better to finish Saturday than to come back the next day.
"It was not our wish to play,바카라 Denmark forward Martin Braithwaite said. "We had two options and would have liked a third option. But we were told we had to make a decision. ... There were many players who weren바카라t in a condition to play the match. We were in a completely different place.바카라
Another much-debated topic has been the impact on young viewers, who watched one of their sporting idols lying unconscious on the ground.
For unprepared children, seeing such pictures equals 바카라a slap in the face,바카라 said Ane Lemche, a psychologist with the Danish chapter of Save the Children.
"And children can also get confused, because he looks quite lifeless and that is uncomfortable for a child," she told Danish broadcaster DR.
Boerns Vilkaar, a child counselling organization, posted advice for parents on its website, saying many children who watched were 바카라scared, insecure and sad.바카라
The Danish soccer federation also tweeted a link to the organization's advice.
"Those kinds of pictures can be hard to get out of your head,바카라 the organization wrote. 바카라Some children may think about it a lot and be affected by it for a long time."
(AP)