{"id":991741,"date":"2022-02-15T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/15\/brentford-midfielder-returns-to-action-in-friendly\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T16:31:51","slug":"brentford-midfielder-returns-to-action-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/15\/brentford-midfielder-returns-to-action-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Brentford midfielder returns to action in friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/skysports-christian-eriksen_5673801-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"skysports-christian-eriksen_5673801\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Christian Eriksen played an hour in a closed-doors friendly against a Southend United XI on Monday, his first match since suffering cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-Spurs midfielder Eriksen created a goal in Brentford\u2019s 3-2 victory.<\/p>\n<p>The Denmark international, who turned 30 today, joined Brentford last month after being released by Inter Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Last week,\u00a0Eriksen told BBC Sport\u00a0it feels like a miracle to be able to resume his career after collapsing while playing at Euro 2020 last summer.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Eriksen is building up his match fitness and the outing against the Southend side is seen by Brentford manager Thomas Frank as a crucial part of that.<\/p>\n<p>He last played a competitive match on 12 June 2021 at Euro 2020 for Denmark, when he collapsed on the pitch and received CPR before being taken to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Dane was subsequently fitted with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD).<\/p>\n<p>Eriksen\u2019s Inter contract was cancelled by mutual consent in December because players fitted with an ICD cannot compete in Serie A.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Premier League does not have the same regulations.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2CdzH27FgGI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The NDC is prepared to support government address economic challenges - Adom TV (15-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2CdzH27FgGI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Eriksen played an hour in a closed-doors friendly against a Southend United XI on Monday, his first match since suffering cardiac arrest. Ex-Spurs midfielder Eriksen created a goal in Brentford\u2019s 3-2 victory. The Denmark international, who turned 30 today, joined Brentford last month after being released by Inter Milan. Last week,\u00a0Eriksen told BBC Sport\u00a0it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":991742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[777,1957,386,5054,60],"class_list":["post-991741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-action","tag-brentford","tag-friendly","tag-midfielder","tag-returns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}