Soccer-Eriksen joins Brentford for rest of the season

(Reuters) -Brentford have signed Denmark international Christian Eriksen as a free agent for the rest of this season, the Premier League club said on Monday.

Eriksen has not played since suffering a cardiac arrest in Denmark's opening match of the European Championship against Finland in June and has been training with his former club Ajax Amsterdam to build up his fitness.

The 29-year-old midfielder's former club Inter Milan terminated his contract in December because the heart starter device that he had implanted is not permitted in Serie A.

Eriksen played 26 games for Inter as they won the Italian top-flight title in 2021 for the first time in 11 years.

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"I am looking forward to working with Christian again. It has been a while since I last coached him and a lot has happened since then," Brentford head coach Thomas Frank, who worked with the player at Denmark Under-17 level, said in a statement