Italy: at Inter Milan, Eriksen expected "with open arms"

Christian Eriksen, victim of a heart attack on June 12 during a Euro match with Denmark, is expected "with open arms" at Inter Milan when he has rested, assured the new coach on Wednesday. Italian champions, Simone Inzaghi. "For the moment, he has to think about resting, but as an Inter coach I am waiting for him with open arms," ​​Antonio Conte's successor explained in his introductory press conference. "I had spoken with him before the Euro, not since his accident. He is a player I was betting on," he added, while stressing that Eriksen will now need time.

The 29-year-old Danish playmaker moved the football world at the start of the Euro when he suffered a cardiac arrest in the middle of a match during the Denmark-Finland meeting in Copenhagen.

Questions about the rest of his career

Revived on the lawn in front of his partners in tears, he was hospitalized several days before having a miniature defibrillator implanted to regulate his heart rate, which puts a big question mark on the rest of his career.

In Italy, wearing this type of device is a priori a contraindication to practicing football professionally, even if everything will obviously depend on future assessments of the player's state of health by his club.

While waiting for these heavy decisions, Simone Inzaghi welcomed that Inter have recruited the Turkish Hakan Calhanoglu (ex-AC Milan), a player capable of playing a role of host in the middle. "I've always liked it," he said of the ex-Rossonero, hired for three years. On the transfer side, Simone Inzaghi also said that he had been informed "from the start" that international Achraf Hakimi would leave the club, in search of new money because of his serious financial difficulties. Hakimi officially signed up for five years with Paris SG on Tuesday.