Berisha: "I couldn't breathe for so long that I panicked"

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• FC Vaduz will have to do without defender Liridon Berisha in the promotion battle until the end of the season after he broke a rib at the beginning of March.
• The 28-year-old suffered the injury in the 2-0 defeat against FC Aarau after a tackle and struggled to breathe and panicked.
• Despite the painful experience, Berisha does not blame his opponent and was accompanied to hospital by family and friends after the game.

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FC Vaduz will have to do without its defender Liridon Berisha in the promotion battle. In the 2-0 defeat in the top match at FC Aarau at the beginning of March, Berisha broke his rib in a duel with David Acquah. The 28-year-old struggled to breathe. "I've never had pain like that before," says Berisha. "I couldn't breathe for so long that I panicked."

However, his biggest concern at that moment was not himself, but his mother. "I knew she was sitting in the stands. I just wanted her to know that everything would be okay, that I would survive." Many of his friends and relatives were also present at the game, and they all accompanied him to hospital afterwards. "That was a very nice gesture."

Berisha will miss Vaduz in the promotion race

Berisha will not play again this season. FC Vaduz will have to make do without their defender until the end of the season.

He doesn't blame his opponent Acquah; after all, as a defender himself, he knows best what it's like to go into a tough duel.