Denmark doctor Morten Bosen confirms Christian Eriksen, ‘suffered cardiac arrest’ which causes are still unknown, while the whole team received professional psychological support.
Bosen held a press conference today together with Denmark football director Peter Møller and the Danish national team coach Kasper Hjulmand.
“We don’t have an explanation [for what happened], I didn’t see what happened live, I watched on TV like all of you,” Bosen said.
When asked how close was Eriksen to dying, the doctor replied: “He was gone, we did CPR and there was a cardiac arrest. How close were we? I don’t know, we had him back, it was quite fast.
“I am not a cardiologist, so I can’t say why it happened, I’ll leave this to the experts.
“That’s one of the reasons he’s still in the hospital. It is to find out what happened.
“He is awake and answers relevantly and clearly. The heart beats again.”
Football director Peter Møller said the team received professional psychological support yesterday and this morning and agrees it was wrong to resume the game although he didn’t feel pressure from UEFA delegates.
“The players have been very open and shown their true selves. Each has their way of tackling it and getting help accordingly. Some need to talk a lot. Others have not,” Moller said.
“We’ve had psychological help from the outside, everybody could express their feelings and how to solve the situation, we had a short brief and everybody was pleased.
“We were talking to each other, today we had the same people coming to the hotel so that players could express their thoughts talking singularly. We appreciate the help we could get from outside.
“The conversation with Christian had a massive impact on the players. It was a big boost for the players to see Christian on that screen, it was a lovely thing.”
Denmark coach Hjulmand said it was wrong to resume the game and the national team’s football director shares his view.
“I felt no pressure from UEFA, but I agree it was not the right decision,” he said.
“It’s a good topic, we need to think about this if it happens in the future. We love football, but football is not the world. The most important things are the people we have around us. I think it was not the right decision to have played the game.”