Christian Eriksen it’s news again. For a few days it has been said that the Danish player has an offer to return to football. More than half a year after suffering cardiac arrest while playing in a European Championship match, his return is closer. El Brentford has been the one who has put the first offer on the table, a six-month contract. Until the end of the season. It is not the only Premier team that follows: Newcastle or Leicester are also in the bid.
This return after overcoming this terrible episode does not convince everyone. Muamba, the former Bolton player, does not see it clearly. He knows what it is because the same thing happened to him in March 2012 in a match against Tottenham. Now retired, he values Eriksen’s case and does not share his decision to play football again.
“As someone who went into cardiac arrest in midfield, and as someone whose heart revived after 78 minutes, it’s hard to imagine I’d ever see Eriksen play again.” he stated in The Times.
“If your medical team has told you that you are fit to return, good luck, but for me it is difficult”
Muamba
“If his medical team has told him that he is fit to return, good luck to him. I trust that he is in the hands of specialists, but for me it is difficult. The help he received was very quick and effective, so much so that he was already conscious when he left the stadium. It is probably one of the reasons why he can resume his career. For me, that was never an option,” Muamba said.
The Bolton midfielder, aged just 23, was in a “very critical situation” after suffering a cardiovascular collapse that led him to fight for his life on the same pitch during Tottenham’s English Cup match with his team at White Hart Lane. Doctors confirmed that Muamba’s heart stopped for 78 minutes. A few months later he made the decision to quit football. Now, years later, relive these hard times with the Eriksen case…