Euro2020: “I feel better” – Christian Eriksen says

Denmark international and Inter Milan playmaker, Christian Eriksen has finally spoken after his cardiac arrest during his country’s Euro 2020 opener against Finland on Saturday.

Recall that the 29-year-old got the football world worried after he collapsed on the pitch shortly before halftime in Denmark’s 1-0 defeat to Finland.

Eriksen was given Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, CPR, before he was taken to the hospital.

However, in a statement via his manager to the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport, Eriksen said: “Thank you, I won’t give up.

“I feel better now – but I want to understand what has happened.

“I want to say thank you all for what you did for me.”

There are indications that the Inter Milan playmaker will no longer play football anymore.

This comes as Sanjay Sharma, a professor of sports cardiology at London’s St George’s University who worked with Eriksen when he was at Tottenham Hotspur, said football bodies would likely be “very strict” about allowing the midfielder to play football again.

With this latest development, Inter Milan will have to commence search for a new midfielder and this could make them consider taking Matteo Kovacic as part of the players the Blues are offering in exchange for Hakimi.