Doctor Denmark: Eriksen spoke before hospitalization. It is now awaiting new exams

• Eriksen collapses to the ground in Denmark-Finland, hospitalized in stable conditions

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June 13, 2021 Christian Eriksen, the black and blue midfielder who was taken ill yesterday during the Denmark-Finland match for the European football championships, is stable and conscious. The game, interrupted and played in the evening, ended 1-0 for the Finns.

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lay unconscious on the pitch and his heart rate slowed,

quickly realized there wasn't a second to lose. "He was breathing and I could hear his heartbeat. But suddenly things changed," he said, recounting the moments of fear during the match between Denmark and Finland. "And as everyone saw, we started giving him heart massage." "We managed to get Christian back," he added. " IS

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. "Thus opens the front page of the Spanish newspaper Marca on newsstands today which opens on the drama touched upon for the Inter and Danish national Christian Eriksen: "Immense shock, Eriksen collapsed. He was revived for more than 15 minutes after being unconscious on the pitch. The doctors have stabilized him and the player is now in the hospital awaiting new exams. "

"The immediate and appropriate rescue provided a few hours ago in the field in Eriksen made the difference between life and death. An immediate heart massage to a victim of sudden cardiac arrest, activated within the first 90 seconds, and the shock delivered by a defibrillators within the first 5 minutes have significant life-saving chances without disabling neurological outcomes ". The

told Ansa

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Christian Eriksen is lucky to be alive but is

after suffering apparent cardiac arrest at Euro 2020, according to a sports cardiologist who previously worked with the footballer at Tottenham.

, a professor of sports cardiology at St George's University in London, said football clubs and doctors are likely to be "very strict" in allowing Eriksen, who is now with Inter Milan, to play again.       

Sharma, who worked with Eriksen at Spurs, said: "Clearly something went terribly wrong. But they managed to bring him back, the question is what happened? And why did it happen?" "This kid had normal tests until 2019, so how do you explain this cardiac arrest?" asks Sharma, who chairs the AF expert cardiac consensus group, who said there were several reasons why cardiac arrest could have occurred, such as high temperatures or an unidentified condition. But he said post-game reports that Eriksen was awake in the hospital were "a very good sign". 

"I am very happy. The fact that he is stable and awake, his prospects will be very good," he told the PA news agency. "I don't know if he'll ever play football again. In no uncertain terms, he's actually dead, even if for a few minutes, but he's dead and would the doctor allow him to die again? The answer is no," explained the doctor who has then added: "The good news is that he will live, the bad news is that he was coming to the end of his career, so that he will play another football match at a professional level I can't say. In the UK he wouldn't play. We would be very strict. to about".