LONDON : Danish midfielder Christian Eriksen said he is determined to prove that he is the same player as before he suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch last year, as he nears a return to action with Premier League side Brentford.
The Dane joined West London side Brentford in January and is now fitted with a special heart-starting device known as an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator . "Of course I have not forgotten how to play football and my body is still the same and my vision and my ability will still be the same," he told a news conference on Friday."That has not changed.
"And that is how I feel. I feel very protected with it. I feel normal. I don't feel it in any annoying way. Only going through the airport, I have to go around instead of going through a scanner."
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