June 12, 2021 Denmark's Christian Eriksen is carried off after collapsing during the match Pool via REUTERSGlobal players' union FIFPRO warned that player welfare was not being considered when competition calendars are drawn up, hours before Denmark's Christian Eriksen collapsed during his European Championship group opener against Finland. It was not immediately clear what caused Eriksen to collapse or if it was related to exhaustion. Conditions in and around the game leave you mentally and physically exhausted," FIFPro general secretary Jonas Baerr-Hoffman, said in an open letter. A number of top club coaches have been critical of the compressed schedule this season. In November, Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer warned of injuries piling up in the Premier League from "physical or mental fatigue".

Source: Standard Digital June 12, 2021 21:22 UTC