Brighton star Julio Enciso says he ‘virtually died’ after fainting on his flight to Ecuador with a fellow passenger coming to his rescue.
Enciso, 20, was travelling from the UK again to South America to hyperlink up with the Paraguay nationwide staff squad for video games towards Ecuador and Venezuela through the worldwide break.
Paraguay tackle Ecuador in Quito on Thursday with Enciso revealing he was ‘powerless’ after collapsing on board the aircraft.
‘I’ve a headache. I virtually died, I fainted on the aircraft,’ Enciso mentioned as he tried to giggle off the incident, Del Paraguay report
‘I used to be weak, I didn’t eat or sleep properly. At one level I acquired as much as go to the toilet and I felt like I used to be falling.’
Enciso revealed one other passenger got here to his help, providing him ‘Coca Cola and Japanese soup’ to assist him get his bearings again.
‘A man grabbed me and took me to the entrance, made me drink coke and a Japanese soup and that did me good,’ he mentioned.
Enciso is already a key participant within the Paraguayan set-up with 19 senior caps to his identify.
The ahead left his homeland to hitch Brighton for a charge of £9.5million in the summertime of 2022, rising as one of many Premier League’s brilliant younger abilities underneath Roberto de Zerbi.
In his first marketing campaign in England, Enciso scored the aim of the season along with his gorgeous lengthy vary effort towards Manchester Metropolis.
He spent a lot of the 2023-24 season on the sidelines after struggling a severe knee damage, selecting up one other knock in the summertime whereas representing Paraguay on the Paris Olympics.
Underneath new Brighton boss Fabian Hürzeler, Enciso remains to be to start out a Premier League sport this season, coming off the bench in 5 of their seven league outings whereas beginning in Carabao Cup wins over Crawley City and Wolves.
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