When the eyes of the football world were focused on the highlight of the day in the Euro Cupthe tie between Germany and Switzerland, an incident in Hungary-Scotland It stole the attention: after 70 minutes of action. Angus Gunn rejected with his fists inside the area and ended up hitting Barnabas Vargawho fell unconscious to the grass.
The scenes of anguish multiplied. His colleagues and rivals, noticing that he was not reacting, quickly demanded medical help and surrounded him, first with his bodies and then with a canvas field, to protect his privacy while they assisted him. There were many gestures of despair on the Hungarian substitute bench. After more than eight minutes of uncertainty on the pitch, Varga He was transferred on a stretcher non-stop to the Stuttgart hospital..
It was only at the end of the match, that his team ended up winning 1-0 with a goal in the 99th minute from Kevin Csobothand after the tributes to the disgraced teammate (the footballers dedicated the victory to him and were photographed with his shirt), the first messages of calm came from the delegation, since The Hungarian Federation confirmed to the BBC that Varga was stable and conscious after the crash.
As the hours passed, the medical report arrived with the consequences of the impact. And they are not minors. The entity reported that Varga He suffered “several bones in his face” broken, in addition to having suffered a “concussion.”. He will spend the night in the Stuttgart hospital and will likely have to undergo surgery in the coming days. “The entire team supports you,” the Federation concluded the communication.
What happened to the attacking midfielder immediately emerged in the fans’ memories. Christian Eriksen in the duel between Denmark and Finland for the last Euro, played in 2021. Then, 42 minutes into the first half, he suffered a heart attack and the images went around the world. The midfielder managed to reinsert himself in football, although with a device in his body (an automatic defibrillator) that controls the heart rhythm, he is able to detect a malignant arrhythmia and act to resolve it immediately.
Barnabás Varga, 30 years old, with a present in his country’s Ferencvaros and a past in Austrian football. (SV Eberau, SV Mattersburg and SV Lafnitz), will not be able to continue in the competition, but his squad was left with a chance of achieving it. For that, he must finish as one of the best third parties, thanks to the three points scored against Scotland.
In the zone, the leadership was left to the selected Germany team, with seven units, followed by Switzerland, with five.
