February 1 – UEFA and the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) have entered into a new training and education partnership focussed on increasing the number of people with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills and raising awareness of the importance of immediate CPR treatment in cases of cardiac arrest.
The partnership announcement was made at the opening session of the 8th UEFA Medical Symposium, which opened today at the headquarters of the German FA (DFB) in Frankfurt.
UEFA and the ERC have will organise CPR training for the teams competing in the women’s Finalissima at Wembley, the Nations League finals in the Netherlands and the Under-21 Championship in Georgia and Romania, as well as the various UEFA youth and futsal competitions.
The aim is to provide in-person training to more than 12,000 people. The training will be extended to the staff of UEFA and the 55 member associations, as well as the staff and volunteers working at UEFA EURO 2024 in Germany.
UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin, among the first group of trainees, said: “The role of medicine in football is more important than ever, and UEFA takes great pride in launching this new initiative in cooperation with the ERC. Each of us can be a bystander to a sudden cardiac arrest, and when it happens, every second matters. We want to use football’s powerful voice to raise awareness of this problem and encourage people to educate themselves, step up, and save lives.”
UEFA pointed said that quick and “properly administered assistance can double or even triple the chances of surviving a sudden cardiac arrest, and save up to 100,000 lives a year across Europe.”
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