“How are you? I think you are in worse shape than me! I would now be ready to train ». Christian Eriksen is happy in his hospital room. His clinical condition is stable. On Saturday, 12 June, during the match of the European Championships Denmark-Finland, the player suddenly collapsed to the ground due to a cardiac arrest and passed out. Immediately rescue, he was given heart massage. “He was as if dead: we brought him back, but I don’t know how we did it,” the Danish national team doctor said yesterday, June 13. Eriksen is now on the fourteenth floor of the Rigshospitalet. His agent, and friend, Martin Schoots, said he had a long talk with him: “We spoke this morning (yesterday, ed). He joked, he was in a good mood, I found him fine. We all want to understand what happened to him, he wants to do it too: the doctors are carrying out in-depth examinations, it will take time ». Meanwhile, the tests and analyzes that the medical staff are carrying out in these hours all give the same result: negative.
The former cardiologist: “He won’t play anymore”
There is no peace of Eriksen’s former cardiologist, Sanjay Sharma, who followed him for seven years when he played for Tottenham. “My first thought – he said – was:” My God, is there something we haven’t seen? “. But I went through all the tests I’ve done over the years with Spurs and everything seemed perfect. Following him was my specific task and, until 2019, his results were completely normal. I can tell because I did those tests. ” So there remain doubts, and anxiety, about what caused the cardiac arrest. In short, if all the exams are perfect, why did the heart stop? Sharma is very critical of the player’s return to the field: «I don’t know if he will ever play football again. In fact, it is as if he were dead, even if for a few minutes: would the doctor allow him to die again? The answer is no. The good news is that he will live, the bad is that I don’t know if he will play another football match at a professional level. In the UK he wouldn’t play. We would be very strict about it ».
Inter always in contact
Since he fell ill, Inter have never cut off communications with Eriksen’s Danish medical team which, on the contrary, have become increasingly dense. As reported by The day, yesterday the player wanted to greet his teammates, popping up in the team’s internal chat with an audio message. The goal now is to understand what happened. At the moment, the parties involved, from the Federation to the Nerazzurri club, agree on the desire not to venture hypotheses until the end of the investigations.
Return to the field with the psychologists
The shock, for the teammates, was so big that Denmark returned to training, but to do so, the emotional aspect will also have to be managed. For this the players and the coaching staff were assisted by a team of four psychologists, hoping to erase the terrible image of Eriksen on the ground at the Parken stadium. “We will try to meet again, to do our best, after all it is also Christian’s desire,” said coach Hjulmand.
