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The Danish star, who suffered a cardiac arrest in the middle of a match during the Euro, is in the selection of his country for the next friendly matches.
Christian Eriksen, right, in the Brentford jersey, March 12.
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Danish football star Christian Eriksen will return to the national team, nearly nine months following his dramatic cardiac arrest in the middle of a match during the Euros, the federation of the Scandinavian country announced on Tuesday.
The number 10, who returned to competition at the end of February in the Premier League with his new club Brentford, is in the Danish selection for the friendly matches once morest the Netherlands and Serbia on March 26 and 29, said the DBU in a communicated.
The 30-year-old Dane has been living with an internal defibrillator since his heart attack on June 12 once morest Finland at the Euro, which saw him lie lifeless on the lawn for long minutes under the dumbfounded eyes of his teammates. , the stadium and millions of viewers, before finally coming back to him.
Eriksen is in good shape
“He is in shape. I followed him closely. I was recently in London to view and review it. I saw him in training and in matches and physically he is very, very sharp,” coach Kasper Hjulmand said at a press conference.
“There are always things that can improve, that’s normal, but he plays at a high level,” he said.
His return should unlock a counter that has remained at 109 selections – for 36 goals -, in a Danish team which brilliantly qualified for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year.
In club, Eriksen had been forced to terminate his contract with Inter Milan, his cardiac regulator being considered incompatible with the practice of professional football in Italy, which is not the case in England.
The playmaker had signed up with Brentford on the last day of the winter transfer window at the end of January.
(AFP)
