One year of the second half of Eriksen’s life

This Sunday One year since June 12, 2021 when it started the second part of Christian Eriksen’s life. A whole life, where he continues to pursue his passion, playing football. These days, with his team, Denmark, in the Nations League.

Twelve months ago they played Denmark and Finland, with 0-0 on the scoreboard in that 43rd minute in Copenhagen, on the first day of group B of the European Championship. Eriksen then collapsed on the lawn of Parken Stadium after suffering cardiac arrest. The quick reaction of his teammates and the performance of medical services allowed the then Inter midfielder to save his life. He was stabilized and transferred to a hospital, where an ICD (automatic defibrillator) was implanted.

Eriksen explained that in February he remembers everything that happened, except for the five minutes in which he left “this world.” The midfielder said in a BBC interview: “I remember everything except five minutes. I remember the throw-in, the ball that hit my knee and I don’t know what happened then. I woke up to the crowd around me and pressed my chest, trying to catch my breath. I don’t understand what’s going on. “

Eriksen also explained: “I started to think if I had broken my legs, my back. I was trying to move everything to understand what was going on. Then in the ambulance I heard someone say: ‘How come is he long out? ‘ and another answered: ‘Five minutes’ “. That was the first time I heard I was gone“.

The shock of what happened to Eriksen is all over the world. His companions, both, with their captain Simon Kjaer at the helm, they protected media privacy by forming a circle around him as doctors attended to him, they decided to complete the match against Finland (which was suspended for 90 minutes) and lost 0-1. Eriksen asked the team to play again. Denmark did it for Christian and reached the semi-finals.

For Eriksen the second half of his life began. “He came back to life thanks to the defibrillator, he died a while back,” Morten Boesen, the Danish team’s doctor, declared on June 13, 2021. After the ICD was implanted, sand the difficult challenge of recovery began for Eriksen dreaming of pursuing his career.

It could not be at Inter, for whom he won the ‘scudetto’, as the rules do not allow him to play in a DAI in Italy. But Eriksen signed on January 31, 2022 for Brentfordthe club that gave him the opportunity to continue his career and return to the Premier League, where he won the Tottenham shirt. Brentford allowed him to play again. His first goal in returning to the Premier was in the 1-4 made at Chelsea, Brentford’s first victory against the ‘blues’ since 1939. He returned to the national team on March 26, in a 4-2 defeat against the Netherlands .