fitted with a special heart-starting device<\/a> known as an Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator (ICD), \u200cand he managed to \u2060resume his career at both club and international level.<\/p>\nThere was a dreadful sense of deja vu for Danish football on Sunday as Eriksen collapsed around 20 minutes into the second half, and a sense of shock descended over the stadium as fans realised which player it was that had gone \u200cdown.<\/p>\n
“There’s a throw-in, and then I go out \u200cto the side, and I turn around a \u2060bit, and I see Christian on his way to the floor, and we know a little about how he reacts, what that means,” Denmark captain Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg told Danish broadcaster TV2.<\/p>\n
“(Everyone) reacted super-fast and with respect… I can only compliment how much courage those who took care of Christian on the field had. I can’t say much more than that you get a shock, and that the most important thing is that Christian is doing well.”<\/p>\n
Much as the players from both Denmark and Finland had done five years ago, the Danish and Ukrainian footballers quickly formed a \u2060ring around Eriksen while he was being attended to by medics, and he \u200cwas eventually able to walk to an ambulance.<\/p>\n
“Christian is doing well \u2060and walked \u200cfrom the field himself. As I see it, the pacemaker is working as it should. He was briefly gone, but very quickly regained consciousness, and we were quickly in contact with him,” DBU doctor Morten \u2060Boesen told Danish media.<\/p>\n
“He will now be examined further in the hospital to find out what caused \u2060the incident. We are in constant contact with him and the doctors at the hospital. But Christian is doing well, and he asked me to talk to all the players and say that he was okay.”<\/p>\n
Neither Denmark nor Ukraine qualified for this year’s World Cup. Denmark were leading 2-1 on Sunday when the match was abandoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denmark international Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch in a match against Ukraine on Sunday, but was conscious,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-487955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}