After complying with a battery of medical examinations, Christian Eriksen obtained the green light from doctors to resume high-level football, seven months after his cardiac arrest during the Euro. The Dane signed up in January with Brentford, in the Premier League, and spoke in an interview with his new club’s media.
“Everyone will of course remember what happened last year, but my goal is to create new memories associated with football (…) I want to be the best I can be.” Ambitious, Christian Eriksen is enjoying his return to training, comforted by his positive results in the medical examinations he has undergone in recent months. “I had to go through a lot of tests to get the doctors’ approval and to make sure I could play again without risk”he explains.
While an automatic defibrillator was implanted in him, the Danish player could no longer play in Italy, where he was under contract with Inter Milan, because Italian football regulations prevent footballers from evolving with this type of device. . He has therefore signed up with Brentford until the end of the season and is therefore giving himself four to five months to get back on track and set foot on Premier League pitches again: “Now you have to be patient, I trust my coaches and my doctors to follow the program they have established. I don’t worry about it, everything will return to normal. Even if normality has changed for me since I can no longer play in Italy”.
And if Eriksen is now eager to return to competition, he thought at first, while he was hospitalized, never to play football again. Finally, the desire to put on the crampons came back very quickly, “Two days after” the accident, he said. “All the testing then started to figure out what happened and I asked all the questions: ‘Can I do this? Can I do that?'”he says.
The midfielder still had a rather bad experience of being away from the field: “Until then I had been lucky and I had never really been injured. Not playing football for six or seven months was very long (…) At the beginning, it was difficult for me to watch matches , because I wanted to play. But a few months later, when I was able to start touching the ball again, to feel the pitch, to put my cleats on, the excitement returned and I started to watch football again. football.”
If he now considers himself in good physical condition, Christian Eriksen will now have to regain his ball feeling and take the time to see how his body will react to the resumption of daily training. His coach, Thomas Frank, hopes he can give him a few minutes of play “in the next weeks”.