Christian Eriksen joins Brentford as 29-year-old bids to resume playing career after suffering cardiac arrest at Euro 2020

By Jack Bantock, CNN

Updated 1108 GMT (1908 HKT) January 31, 2022

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(CNN)Christian Eriksen has signed for English Premier League club Brentford as the 29-year-old Dane bids to resume his playing career after suffering a cardiac arrest at Euro 2020 in June.

The former Tottenham Hotspur midfielder joins Brentford until the end of the current season having not played since he collapsed during Denmark's game against Finland in Copenhagen last year.The 29-year-old received life-saving treatment on the pitch and was subsequently fitted with an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) device — a type of pacemaker intended to prevent fatal cardiac arrests by