Christian Eriksen scored a brilliant goal as he made a triumphant return to the Parken Stadium where he almost died of a cardiac arrest last June, netting Denmark’s third in a 3-0 friendly win over Serbia on Tuesday. Eriksen, who scored with his first touch after coming on as a substitute in the 4-2 friendly defeat against the Netherlands in Amsterdam on Saturday, was guaranteed a warm welcome at...
Eriksen collapsed on the pitch at the Parken Stadium in June during Denmark’s European Championship group game against Finland. En route to the hospital in Copenhagen, he told his wife Sabrina that he would probably never play football again.However, that quickly changed. The 29-year-old was fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) days after the collapse and doctors gave him...
A German emergency doctor has described how he dashed from the stands to help Christian Eriksen after the Denmark midfielder suffered a cardiac arrest on Saturday. Jens Kleinfeld said he saw the team’s medics struggle with the situation and decided he had to intervene. He also described the “lovely moment” when the player opened his eyes after regaining consciousness and told him in English: “I...