Premier League star ‘almost died’ after fainting on flight

Tony MoganPublished Oct 9, 2024, 6:16pm|Updated Oct 9, 2024, 6:19pm

Brighton prima Julio Enciso says helium ‘almost died’ aft fainting connected his formation to Ecuador with a chap rider coming to his rescue.

Enciso, 20, was travelling from the UK backmost to South America to nexus up with the Paraguay nationalist squad squad for games against Ecuador and Venezuela during the planetary break.

Paraguay instrumentality connected Ecuador successful Quito connected Thursday with Enciso revealing helium was ‘powerless’ aft collapsing connected committee the plane.

‘I person a headache. I astir died, I fainted connected the plane,’ Enciso said arsenic helium attempted to laughter disconnected the incident, Del Paraguay study  

‘I was weak, I didn’t devour oregon slumber well. At 1 constituent I got up to spell to the bath and I felt similar I was falling.’

Enciso revealed different rider came to his assistance, offering him ‘Coca Cola and Japanese soup’ to assistance him get his bearings back.

‘A feline grabbed maine and took maine to the front, made maine portion coke and a Japanese crockery and that did maine good,’ helium said.

Enciso is already a cardinal subordinate successful the Paraguayan set-up with 19 elder caps to his name.

The guardant near his homeland to articulation Brighton for a interest of £9.5million successful the summertime of 2022, emerging arsenic 1 of the Premier League’s agleam young talents nether Roberto de Zerbi.

In his archetypal run successful England, Enciso scored the extremity of the play with his stunning agelong scope effort against Manchester City.

He spent astir of the 2023-24 play connected the sidelines aft suffering a superior genu injury, picking up different sound successful the summertime portion representing Paraguay astatine the Paris Olympics.

Under caller Brighton brag Fabian Hürzeler, Enciso is inactive to commencement a Premier League crippled this season, coming disconnected the seat successful 5 of their 7 league outings portion starting successful Carabao Cup wins implicit Crawley Town and Wolves.

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