Malore Eriksen, the doctor: “So we saved him”

“Eriksen spoke to me before he was taken to the hospital. We took him back …”. Morten Boesen, doctor of the Danish national team, retraces the dramatic moments in which he assisted Christian Eriksen, who fell ill in Copenhagen during the Denmark-Finland match. “We were called out when Christian collapsed. I couldn’t see him,” says the doctor. Eriksen, on 43 ‘, collapsed to the ground not far from the flag, along the sideline, in a tight angle on the pitch. “When I got to him, he was lying on his side and breathing. Quickly the picture changed and we began the maneuvers for the heart massage. We received extraordinary help from the stadium doctor and rescue,” adds Boesen, as he reports. the Ekstrabladet newspaper. “We got Christian” before the player was taken away in an ambulance. “He talked to me before he was transferred to the hospital.”