{"id":790246,"date":"2026-07-10T00:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790246\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T00:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T00:04:09","slug":"christian-eriksen-denmark-midfielder-to-begin-rehabilitation-after-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/790246\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Eriksen: Denmark midfielder to begin rehabilitation after collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christian Eriksen will begin individual rehabilitation in Denmark after collapsing during a friendly last month.<\/p>\n

He collapsed during a match against Ukraine in Odense in June, with the game being stopped on 65 minutes<\/a> and abandoned shortly after. The 34-year-old midfielder was able to walk from the field.<\/p>\n

The former Manchester United and Tottenham midfielder was fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) – a type of pacemaker – after suffering a cardiac arrest<\/a> during a Euro 2020 match against Finland in 2021.<\/p>\n

Following last month’s incident, he said it “was a different situation from what happened in 2021” and explained his ICD “did exactly what it was designed to do: protect me when I needed it”.<\/p>\n

He also said he was “doing well”<\/a> and was at home with his family.<\/p>\n

Eriksen plays for German side Wolfsburg, who have confirmed he will “shortly begin an individual rehabilitation programme”.<\/p>\n

“Following discussions with VfL managing director Dieter Hecking, it was decided that the 34-year-old will complete it in his native Denmark,” the club added.<\/p>\n

“VfL remain in regular contact with Christian and the doctors overseeing his treatment. We continue to wish Christian all the very best with his rehabilitation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Eriksen will begin individual rehabilitation in Denmark after collapsing during a friendly last month. He collapsed during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-790246","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\/790246","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=790246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}