I’M FINE… UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES!
CHRISTIAN Eriksen says he is “fine under the circumstances” and posted a picture from his hospital bed with a thumbs-up as he made his first comments since suffering a cardiac arrest.
The Denmark midfielder, 29, collapsed in Saturday’s game with Finland and had to be resuscitated on the pitch.
Eriksen has thanked fans from around the world for their support.
“Now, I will cheer on the boys in the Denmark team in the next matches,” he wrote. “Play for all of Denmark.”
The Inter Milan playmaker is now in a stable condition in a Copenhagen hospital.
He added: “Big thanks for your sweet and amazing greetings and messages from all around the world. It means a lot to me and my family.
“I’m fine, under the circumstances. I still have to go through some examinations at the hospital, but I feel OK.”
Eriksen had to be resuscitated on the pitch after collapsing shortly before half-time in Saturday’s match in Copenhagen.
Denmark’s team doctor Morten Boese said: “How close were we to losing him? I don’t know, but we got him back after one defib [defibrillation] so that’s quite fast.
“The examinations that have been done so far look fine.
“Right now, we don’t have an explanation as to why it happened.”
Only when they were informed that Eriksen was awake in hospital did the players agree to resume the match, with play restarting almost two hours after the former Spurs star collapsed.
Finland won 1-0, with Denmark forward Martin Braithwaite saying the decision to resume the match was the “least bad one”.
NUTTY Kim Jong-un has warned that anyone smuggling tapes of K-pop groups such as BTS into North Korea will be EXECUTED!
The North Korean leader is also imposing harsher penalties on citizens caught listening to “perverse” K-pop music.
The despot dubbed the southern cultural imports a “vicious cancer” corrupting North Korean youths’ “attire, hairstyles, speeches, behaviours”.
His new laws stipulate that anyone caught watching or possessing South Korean content could be sentenced to up to 15 years’ hard labour.
K-pop smugglers could even face execution, while those caught singing, speaking or writing in a “South Korean style” could get two years at a work camp.