Christen eriksen

Christian Eriksen: Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen has issued a statement a few hours after collapsing on the pitch for a second time in recent years. Eriksen was taken to a hospital on Sunday night after he had a huge health scare during Denmark’s friendly against Ukraine, after falling to the floor in the 65th minute as medical staff rushed to his aid.

The former Ajax, Tottenham Hotspur, Inter Milan, Brentford, and Manchester United star's collapse came five years after the 34-year-old had suffered a cardiac arrest during the European Championship, although the midfielder confirmed that Sunday's incident was different.

In his message to his fans, Eriksen confirmed that the implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), an ICD that gives the wearer a shock to either reset the heart if it stops beating, or to jolt it back into a regular rhythm if abnormalities are detected in his chest, had worked as intended.