Denmark’s Christian Eriksen celebrates after scoring the opening goal of the game during a Group C match between Slovenia and Denmark at the Euro 2024 soccer tournament in Stuttgart, Germany, Sunday, June 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
STUTTGART – Christian Eriksen has scored for Denmark in his first European Championship match since suffering a cardiac arrest at the previous edition of the tournament in 2021.
Eriksen neatly slotted a finish into the corner in the 17th minute of Denmark’s Group C opener against Slovenia on Sunday.
The midfielder collapsed on the field at Parken Stadium in Copenhagen in Denmark’s opening match in the last Euros three years ago. In scary scenes, medics worked frenetically to give him chest compressions before he was carried away on a stretcher.
He returned to the sport in 2022, fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator.
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