Christian Eriksen says his swift recovery from heart attack made him impatient for return to normal life

New Brentford signing Christian Eriksen has opened up about the strange sensation of feeling “totally normal” but knowing his life had changed forever following his cardiac arrest at Euro 2020.

The Denmark playmaker will turn 30 on Monday and will spend the occasion with family given there was a chance this celebration may never have occurred after he collapsed on June 12 at Parken Stadium, during Denmark’s clash with Finland.

Eriksen – in his own words – was “gone” for five minutes but says he has felt normal since his resuscitation, increasing his eagerness to return to competitive action.

Days after his collapse, Eriksen had an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) fitted.

His contract with Inter Milan was terminated in December due to rules regarding the use of pacemakers by athletes in Italy, which proved the catalyst for a return to the Premier League with Brentford last month.

“For me, I wanted my life to be normal straight after because I didn’t feel anything from what had happened,” Eriksen explained at his unveiling press conference on Friday.

“I was in hospital and I had an ICD implanted, but otherwise I felt totally normal. That was more the difficult part afterwards, being able to just have a normal life.

“Of course life has changed because the people are looking differently because of what happened, our life of being in Italy and being in the Euros changed in that moment, but otherwise looking at life didn’t change as much.

“I did look at my family a bit different, of how they feel, how they act and how my kids grow up.

“Otherwise, I think the rest of the world… I was pretty happy with the world before, so that didn’t change how I looked at the world afterwards. More the family-wise.”

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