{"id":721738,"date":"2026-06-07T21:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721738\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:07:16","slug":"football-news-2026-christian-eriksen-collapses-during-denmarks-friendly-against-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/721738\/","title":{"rendered":"Football news 2026 | Christian Eriksen collapses during Denmark\u2019s friendly against Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Eriksen is conscious after collapsing on the field again while playing for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/denmark\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"sc-ezrozd dxCwVA\">Denmark<\/a>\u2019s national team, the country\u2019s soccer federation said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>TV images showed the 34-year-old Eriksen clutching his chest with both hands in the 65th minute of Denmark\u2019s international friendly against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/ukraine-gc3\" class=\"sc-ezrozd dxCwVA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine<\/a> at Nature Energy Park in Odense.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/de26f0e456a5126bf105f3e1e45fa7fcdab962f0aab3dc96a60fe456935237b8.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Denmark&#8217;s national coach Brian Riemer and players of his and Ukraine&#8217;s team walk on the pitch after the international friendly soccer match between Denmark and Ukraine was cancelled.\u00a0Ritzau Scanpix Foto<\/p>\n<p>In the next TV image shown, Erikson was on the ground, surrounded by players.<\/p>\n<p>The match was later abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristian Eriksen is conscious and, under the circumstances, doing well,\u201d the federation said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe match is called off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/bebf9162e0692a6f8796cdbb7e0e3070f271e040de09f1d6637a044aae74e4ad.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">Players and medical staff rush to Christian Eriksen.\u00a0TrendEPL\/X<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/sport\/football\/euro-2020-christian-eriksen-collapse-cardiac-arrest-doubt-he-will-play-again-20210614-p5itap.html\" class=\"sc-ezrozd dxCwVA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eriksen collapsed because of a cardiac arrest during Denmark\u2019s opening European Championship group game in 2021<\/a>, against Finland in Copenhagen, and was given lengthy medical treatment before regaining consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Denmark nor Ukraine have qualified for the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Eriksen is conscious after collapsing on the field again while playing for Denmark\u2019s national team, the country\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-721738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}