When Manchester United play Copenhagen in the Europa League, they will be facing an opponent who has literally risen from the dead.
Copenhagen coach Stale Solbakken, a former Norway team-mate of United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, was pronounced clinically dead when he suffered a heart attack back in 2001.
Solbakken, then 33 and playing for Copenhagen, collapsed during training, with paramedics taking seven minutes to bring him back to life in an ambulance en route to hospital.
The cause was a previously undetected cardiac defect, and although Solbakken made a full recovery after surgery, he retired from playing to launch a successful managerial career. “It wasn't a heart attack [as such], it was something I was born with, a small error
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