Denmark’s team doctor Morten Boesen has confirmed that Christian Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest and ‘was gone’ before he was resuscitated by the medical team.
The Inter Milan midfielder collapsed during Denmark’s opening Euro 2020 match with Finland in Copenhagen on Saturday.
Eriksen underwent prolonged treatment on the pitch before he was taken to hospital, where he remains in a stable condition.
Denmark team doctor Boesen said on Sunday afternoon: “He was gone. We did cardiac resuscitation, it was a cardiac arrest.
“How close were we to losing him? I don’t know, but we got him back after one defib, so that’s quite fast.
“We don’t have any explanation why it happened. The details about what happened I am not quite sure of because I am not a cardiologist, I will leave that to the experts. I didn’t see it live, only on screens afterwards.”
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