Christian Eriksen says he knew he would play football again just two days after suffering a cardiac arrest at last year’s Euro 2020 as he starts a new chapter of his career with Brentford. The Denmark playmaker collapsed on the pitch against Finland in June and on the way to hospital in Copenhagen he told his wife Sabrina that he would probably never play football again. 

But Eriksen, 29, was fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) and doctors gave him hope he could return to the sport.  Eriksen signed for Premier League side Brentford on the final day of the January transfer window. “On the way to the hospital I told Sabrina I may as well leave my boots here. It changed two days later. Then all the tests started and all the knowledge started to come in and all the questions were being asked ‘Can I do this? Can I do that?’ and listen to the doctors,” Eriksen said.