"I want to play football, there is no reason why I should stop," the playmaker said in a lengthy interview which will be aired in full later this week on public broadcaster DR.

"My goal is to play the World Cup in Qatar. I can come back ... but do I still have to be selected," said the 29-year-old.

"They (the doctors) said it was 'good'. So everything is stable and I feel like I had the green light to play football again," said the player, who broke off. December his contract with Inter Milan, the authorities in Italy prohibiting any professional player wearing a pacemaker from exercising his profession in this country.

On June 12 in Copenhagen, the former Tottenham player collapsed in the middle of a match against Finland, at the opening of a Euro-2020 postponed for a year because of the pandemic.

A medical team had to perform a cardiac massage in the field to revive him.

Hospitalized, the player was given a pacemaker to regulate his heart rate.

Eriksen resumed training in early December, taking advantage of the facilities at Danish club Odense.

Essentially physical training but also with a ball.

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