He felt more than ready for his first training session on Monday but did not want it to feel different for anyone else, so the previous night he told“There was a meeting before training and he said ‘welcome’ to me, and then I said a few words,” Eriksen said. “I said: ‘I’m here because everything has been cleared; if there are any questions you want to ask me, you can always ask me. Don’t go easy on me, because if there was any concern I wouldn’t be here.’ I told them that from the beginning.
That has always been the intention, beyond early moments of dejection when he told ambulance workers and his partner, Sabrina: “Keep my boots, I won’t need them”.Eriksen quickly found himself itching to get back and it was striking to hear the range of emotions that swirled around his head, five days after the incident, as he watched his teammates playon a television in Copenhagen’s Rigshospitalet, which is within sight of the national stadium.
“Even the Finland game, watching in hospital, I wanted to play the last 30 minutes. But that was the weird feeling: that I hadn’t felt what happened, that I don’t feel anything bad has happened, I just know it has happened. That’s also why mentally I was in a good place really quickly, luckily. It’s also thanks to the doctors – they saved me quickly.”
Eriksen has the option of playing with padding to protect his chest and tried that for the first time in Friday’s training session, although his instinct is that it will not be necessary. He feels ready for whatever is thrown at him – joking that, besides, “I don’t do tackles” – and hopes opponents go about their business with as few scruples as his Brentford colleagues.
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