{"id":465915,"date":"2026-06-07T21:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465915\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T21:20:20","slug":"denmarks-christian-eriksen-collapses-during-ukraine-friendly-five-years-after-suffering-a-cardiac-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465915\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark\u2019s Christian Eriksen collapses during Ukraine friendly, five years after suffering a cardiac arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Medical staff rushed onto the pitch to give Eriksen assistance and the referee called off the match a quarter of an hour later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">Eriksen was subsequently taken to hospital in Odense, where the match was played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cChristian is doing well and walked off the pitch by himself,\u201d said Denmark team doctor Morten Boesen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAs I see it, the pacemaker responded as it should.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe was briefly unconscious, but regained consciousness very quickly, and we were quickly in contact with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"DjAaGJVL\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe will now undergo further examinations at the hospital to determine what caused the incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medical staff rushed onto the pitch to give Eriksen assistance and the referee called off the match a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,9092,14466,68619,5759,82648,42503,42501,110494,2837,216491,6446,1342,53840,10543,111,139,69,213,31145,43211,3461,1530],"class_list":["post-465915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-against","tag-arrest","tag-cardiac","tag-championships","tag-christian","tag-collapsed","tag-collapses","tag-denmarks","tag-during","tag-eriksen","tag-european","tag-five","tag-friendly","tag-match","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-sports","tag-suffered","tag-suffering","tag-ukraine","tag-years"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}