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Christian Eriksen returns to the national team

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Christian Eriksen returns to the national team

Nine months after the cardiac arrest the Dane called up for two friendlies

ROME. Nine months after coming close to the tragedy, due to a cardiac arrest on the pitch, Christian Eriksen – who crossed the threshold of 30 springs on February 14th – will also wear the Danish national team shirt. The images of the midfielder collapsing to the ground without giving signs of life, of his wife in tears who despair and of the defender Kjaer who consoles her, are increasingly faded, although they recall the interminable minutes in which the doctors tore the player from death. at the time he was registered for Inter.

Eriksen has already returned to the field, first playing a segment of the match with the Brentford shirt, in the Premier League, then even playing entire games. Until a few months ago, all of this seemed impossible. Now the Danish coach Kasper Hjulmand has recalled him to be part of the selection that, on the next 26 and 29, will face first the Netherlands and then Serbia in a friendly match on the lawn of the Telia Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, the same where Eriksen was saved in extremis. It was June 12, 2021 and only 43 minutes had passed of the match against Finland, valid for one of the qualifying rounds of the European football championship. The deafening silence in the stands, the rush to the hospital, then finally the first reassuring news about the player’s health, then the end of the nightmare and rebirth.

Denmark is already qualified for the final phase of the 2022 World Cup; at this point, everything suggests that the former Tottenham and Inter director is applying for a place among the squads.

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