A remarkable return. A little over nine months after the football planet held its breath hoping that it would find its own, the Dane Christian Eriksen shone for his reunion with the white jersey, despite the defeat against the Netherlands (4-2 ) in a friendly match, Saturday March 26 at the Johan-Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam.
Entering the game in the second half, the Brentford attacking midfielder did not even wait two minutes to score, from his second touch of the ball, a superb goal with a powerful strike in the top corner, signing his 37th goal in the process in 110 selections. Sharp and author of some exceptional technical gestures, he also hit the Dutch post with a splendid long shot.
Given his performance – he was voted man of the match – the Danish number 10 should, on Tuesday March 22 against Serbia, tread the lawn of the ground where he had collapsed nine months ago. On June 12, 2021, during the match between Denmark and Finland in Copenhagen in the group stage of the Euro, he remained unconscious for almost five minutes.
Ahead of the match against the Netherlands, Denmark coach Kasper Hjulmand said that “The most likely is that (Eriksen) will start as a substitute against the Netherlands, and then we’ll see how it goes in Amsterdam. But he will be 100% available to go home”.
“I was lucky with the doctors and the diagnosis. Everything is good to play again and it motivates me even more to get back to my old life”, said before the match Christian Eriksen, who said to himself “very happy and happy to be back in the selection”. “I wouldn’t have shown up here if I hadn’t known if I was able to come back without anything bad happening to me”he pointed out.
Can’t say how much I’ve missed this feeling! ❤️#ce10 pic.twitter.com/4QLOCs2UIu
— Christian Eriksen (@ChrisEriksen8) March 26, 2022
A sympathetic nod to his inevitably atypical destiny, Christian Eriksen was able to make this sensational comeback on the ground of his professional debut, that of Ajax, where he had shone for four seasons between 2009 and 2013. Highly applauded by the Dutch public, when he entered the lawn, the 30-year-old raised his hands to the sky in thanks.
After his cardiac arrest, the player had had a defibrillator implanted and had resumed training at Odense, his training club, then with the Ajax reserve team, keeping the hope of resuming the course of a devastated career. in the prime of life.
Deprived of this opportunity in Italy, Christian Eriksen had been released from his contract at Inter Milan and had finally signed until the end of the season with English promoters Brentford, with whom he has already played three Premier League games. since the end of February.