FOOTBALL – Danish soccer player Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch in a match against Ukraine yesterday, but was conscious, the Danish Football Federation said in a social media post.
“Christian Eriksen is conscious and is doing well under the circumstances,” the federation said in a statement on X, adding that the friendly had been called off.
Yesterday’s incident marked the second time the 34-year-old playmaker collapsed to the turf while representing his country.
In 2021, he collapsed during his side’s opening European Championship group game against Finland in Copenhagen.
He received life-saving CPR treatment and was later fitted with a special heart-starting device known as an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD), and he managed to resume his career at both club and international level.
There was a dreadful sense of deja vu for Danish football yesterday as Eriksen collapsed around 20 minutes into the second half, and a sense of shock descended over the stadium as fans realised which player it was that had gone down.
Much as the players from both Denmark and Finland had done five years ago, the Danish and Ukrainian footballers quickly formed a ring around Eriksen while he was being attended to by medics, and he was eventually able to walk to an ambulance.
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