Since his cardiac arrest in the middle of the inaugural match of Euro 2020, the playmaker of the Danish team had remained silent. He came out on Tuesday January 4, to thank those who supported him “in the whole world”. The kingdom’s press is now wondering regarding his chances of playing at the World Cup in Qatar.
Denmark has “had to hold his breath ” for nearly two hundred days to know the fate of Christian Eriksen as an athlete, calculates the tabloid Extra Bladet. “But the wait was worth it. Because the message is the best there is ”, estimates the newspaper, while congratulating itself that the only true star of the Danish national team decided to continue its career, in spite of the pacemaker which one implanted to him following the cardiac accident which occurred in Copenhagen, on June 12th.
For the international with 36 goals in 109 caps, the time has come to attract attention once more by his sporting qualities, and no longer because of his state of health. “For people to send me flowers because I was dead for five minutes, that’s not what I wanted ”, he confided, a slight smile on his lips, on Danish public television DR for his first interview since the opening match of the Euro.
The people cried, they lived it fully. I am fortunate to be here today. Thanks for the tears. ”
In the Danish collective consciousness
Such a gesture was “predictable” from Eriksen, admits the daily Jyllands-Posten. “Nevertheless, it is very comforting and joyful to see him and hear him once more, so much has his collapse been installed in the consciousness of a large majority of the population” Danish. An accident that hit the
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Antoine Jacob
