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Christian Fuchs couldn’t have had a tougher debut as a television pundit for ESPN covering Euro 2020 Denmark versus Finland.
Fuchs had tried to inject his lively, jovial nature into his performance in front of the cameras but just before half-time the mood completely changed when Christian Eriksen collapsed.
“It was no longer about football, it turned very quickly into news,” Fuchs tells
The Athletic. “It was a completely different beast. That was really tough.”
As the visibly shaken players formed a guard of privacy around Eriksen as he received life-saving treatment in front of the watching world, Fuchs looked away, and instead searched for one man he knew well, one man he knew was a leader at a time of crisis Kasper Schmeichel.