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Tom Victor

Christian Eriksen told partner he wouldn't play again after "realising I had been dead"

Christian Eriksen is on the verge of returning to competitive football action for the first time since collapsing at Euro 2020, but there was a point at which the Dane thought he would never play again.

The former Tottenham midfielder revealed he had "died for five minutes" during Denmark's group game against Finland, with medics saving his life after he suffered a cardiac arrest during the game.

Eriksen returned to training in December after being fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), but left former club Inter Milan due to Italian regulations preventing him from playing with the device.

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