Christian Eriksen told paramedics to keep his boots because he was convinced he wouldn’t play football again after suffering a cardiac arrest at Euro 2020 while playing for Denmark.
Speaking at his presentation on Friday as a Brentford player, just eight months after the incident, Eriksen revealed how far he had come in such a short space of time to return to playing top-level football.
Eriksen has not played since he suffered the on-field cardiac arrest during his country’s opening game of Euro 2020 in June against Finland, where he received life-saving treatment on the pitch.
But the 29-year-old has signed a short-term deal with Brentford until the end of the 2021-22 campaign, and he will play in a behind-closed-doors friendly on Monday as he continues to build up his fitness.
Since being released by Inter Milan in December, he has also trained with Ajax, the club where he began his career.
Eriksen was released by Inter after being fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator device, which is not permitted among professional athletes in Italy.
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