UPDATE: The collapse of star soccer player Christian Eriksen on the field Saturday was worse than first believed.Denmark’s team doctor said Sunday that the player’s heart stopped and that “he was gone” before being resuscitated with a defibrillator at the European Championship.“He was gone.
And we did cardiac resuscitation. And it was cardiac arrest,” said team doctor Morten Boesen. “How close were we? I don’t know.
We got him back after one defib. That’s quite fast.”Eriksen is in stable condition at a Copenhagen hospital and spoke to teammates via video link on Sunday, team officials said.Boesen also said the 29-year-old Eriksen may not have survived had the game not been played at a major soccer tournament with top-class medical equipment
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