Text, audio/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Zhao Liangchen
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In the early hours of this morning, the Netherlands returned to the international competition after seven years, beating Ukraine 3-2, and the 31-year-old Daly Blind was replaced in the 63rd minute, covering his face with his hands and shedding tears.
A lot of people thought he was playing badly and was a little frustrated. After the game, he told the truth about the tears: because of Erikson, but also because of himself.
He put it this way: "The Erikson cardiac arrest that happened last night had a big impact on me, not only because Erikson was a good friend of mine, but also because of what happened to me. I considered not playing tonight and I had to take a big step psychologically. ”
At the end of 2019, Blind fell to the ground in the Champions League match, also without confrontation, and was diagnosed with myocarditis after the game. The doctor told him it was better not to play football anymore, but he refused. He implanted a defibrillator and, after recovery training, tenaciously returned to the field.
But in August 2020, Blind again fainted on the pitch. The reason was that the defibrillator had malfunctioned — he had closed the ghost door again.
This morning, Blind is taking an in-body defibrillator to the European Championship, less than 24 hours after his teammate Eriksen in Ajax had an accident, and he needed a lot of courage to stand on the pitch.
When he came off, the audience gave thunderous applause: salute to a brave heart.
Back to Erikson. When he woke up yesterday, he also tried to ask the game to continue. Although he could not put on the line, he still cheered his teammates through broadcasting. The teammates also adjusted their emotions in time, fulfilled his wishes, and let the game continue.
Erikson has a nickname in the Chinese world because of the harmonic relationship of the name, so yesterday many people said that "Eros" defeated "Death". And Daly Blind, whose English surname inherits from the famous Dutch star Blind Sr., the English literal translation is "blind".
The names of two people can be connected – love is blind, but it is true and fierce. It may not be praiseworthy and advocated, and should not be imitated, but when a person makes such a choice, it is still worth applauding.
Speaking of which, I am reminded of a famous quote by Liverpool's legendary manager Shankly: "Football is not life and death, football is higher than life and death." ”
Theoretically, of course, football cannot be higher than life and death, after all, there is nothing without health. However, Shankly's meaning is that no matter how fate is arranged, the love of football can always make people forget to throw themselves into it, to try to fight against the arrangement of fate, and even to some extent to put life and death on the line.
It's an emotion, maybe not a fact, but in some moments it's more real and powerful than any fact. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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