{"id":102879,"date":"2026-06-08T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/102879\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:40:21","slug":"denmarks-christian-eriksen-doing-well-after-second-collapse-and-to-be-discharged-soon-team-physician-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/102879\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark\u2019s Christian Eriksen \u2018doing well\u2019 after second collapse and to be discharged soon, team physician says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Denmark’s Christian Eriksen, left, was hospitalized after clutching his chest and briefly falling unconscious Denmark\u2019s international friendly against Ukraine on Sunday.Bo Amstrup\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Christian Eriksen is \u201cin good spirits\u201d and expected to leave the hospital soon after collapsing on the field again playing for Denmark, the national team\u2019s physician said Monday.<\/p>\n

The 34-year-old Eriksen clutched his chest with both hands in an off-the-ball action before dropping to the ground in the 65th minute of Denmark\u2019s international friendly against Ukraine in Odense, Denmark, on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The midfielder walked off the field by himself after being attended by medical staff, the Danish soccer federation said after the match, and underwent more tests in Odense University Hospital.<\/p>\n

In an update provided by the federation on Monday morning, Denmark team physician Morten Boesen said: \u201cI spoke with Christian this morning, and he is doing well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is with his family and is in good spirits. The expectation is that he will be discharged soon and can return home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boesen said in the statement that the federation is \u201ctaking good care of the players and staff and remain in regular contact with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen posted on Facebook late Sunday that she was \u201csending my warmest thoughts to Christian Eriksen and to all those around him who are affected,\u201d adding that she had been relieved to hear an update on his condition after the initial shock of his latest health incident.<\/p>\n

The game was abandoned with no further play following Eriksen\u2019s collapse after the referee conferred with staff and players from both teams.<\/p>\n

Eriksen was fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator in the months after suffering a cardiac arrest during Denmark\u2019s opening group game in the European Championship in 2021.<\/p>\n

He returned to playing less than a year after that incident, but had to leave Italy, where he\u2019d been with Inter Milan. Italian health regulations prohibited players from playing with the implantable cardioverter defibrillator.<\/p>\n

Eriksen first returned to action in England with Brentford before three years at Manchester United, which he left as a free agent last year. His current team is Wolfsburg in Germany, where he has a contract through the 2026-27 season. The team wished him a swift recovery Sunday.<\/p>\n

Denmark did not qualify for the 2026 World Cup beginning this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Denmark’s Christian Eriksen, left, was hospitalized after clutching his chest and briefly falling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[2592,2582,2593,2574,2572,2594,227,2571,2587,2588,2584,2573,2570,27,26,1414,440,2072,2586,2580,2605,2575,2576,1585,2583,2501,2578,2595,436,2600,2601,2603,2598,2602,2596,2599,2577,2590,2591,1158,2589,2597,2581,239,1413,2585,2579,1161,2604],"class_list":["post-102879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}