Inter Milan director Giuseppe Marotta, CEO of Inter, denied that Christian Eriksen had previously contracted Covid-19 and the black-blue club doctor, Piero Volpi, said that the Danish midfielder had not shown signs of any pathology.
Eriksen, 29, collapsed on Saturday in the 43rd minute of the Denmark-Finland game near the touchline after a throw-in by his team and received a life-saving heart massage treatment on the field. The Danish Football Association later said that the player was stable and awake in hospital.
More in-depth exams
“In the next few days, it will undergo extensive testing. The most important thing is that he's fine, ”Inter doctor Piero Volpi told Gazzetta dello Sport. “But there had never been an episode that even remotely hinted at a problem, not when he was at Tottenham or at Inter. In Italy, the controls are very rigorous “.
Sanjay Sharma of London's St. George's University, Eriksen's cardiologist at Tottenham, also said the Danish midfielder had no prior heart problems during his time with the Spurs team. However, Sharma told the Mail on Sunday that some players may have had subclinical Covid-19 infections, which could have resulted in “scarring” of the heart.
Marotta rejected that suggestion. “He did not have COVID and he was not vaccinated either,” the Inter leader told the Rai Sport channel. Marotta said that Eriksen was under the supervision of Denmark's medical services, who had to give information, but that Inter had been in contact with them from the beginning.
Sharma said that Eriksen had passed the normal tests when he was playing for Tottenham (2013-2020), but that the sight of the player falling to the ground had raised concerns that doctors had missed something. “I thought,‘ My God? Is there something there that we didn't see? But I looked at all the test results and everything seemed perfect, ”Sharma said.
Normal tests
“From the day we hired him, it was my job to evaluate him and we did tests every year. So certainly your tests through 2019 were completely normal, with no obvious underlying heart failure. I can attest to that because I did the tests. “
Former Bolton midfielder Fabrice Muamba said Eriksen's collapse brought back painful memories of his cardiac arrest on the field in an FA Cup match in 2012. The former England Under-21 midfielder had to retire shortly thereafter at age 24.
“It brought things back to me, from that emotion, from that distance and not knowing what was going to happen,” Muamba told the BBC.
“It was scary, but the credit goes to the medical staff. They have done an amazing job with Christian. I like how his teammates came together to protect him. I hope things go well for him, that he gets over it. “