Article by Daniel Scorpie – Published on Sunday, 07 June 2026 23:58 / Updated on Monday, 08 June 2026 00:11
His terrifying tumble onto the lawn Christian Eriksen from Odense, during the friendly match Denmark – Ukraine, raises the question of whether the 34-year-old midfielder should not retire the second collapseafter the one in 2021 from the Euro.
Peter Møller, former Danish international and current technical director of the Danish Football Association (DBU), told BT daily that only the player knows the answer to that question: “It's up to Christian to decide what he wants.”
In 2021, during the match between Denmark and Finland at the Euros, Peter Møller, saw Eriksen up close as he fell unconscious and was fighting for his life on the Parken pitch.
For Møller, Sunday night's episode was a chilling flashback: “It was the same feeling. It just resurfaced. It had been dormant in me for five years.
I felt the same feeling of helplessness, frustration and sadness. It was shocking, but it's good that now Christian feels OK under these circumstances.”
Peter Møller: “Christian has to answer if he will retire. I don't know. It's up to him to decide what he wants”
The question many are now asking themselves is whether Eriksen can take any more chances and whether he should continue playing football.
According to the quoted source, Peter Møller was unable and unwilling to comment on whether this was Eriksen's last international game: “Christian has to answer that. I don't know. It's up to him to decide what he wants.”
Former Danish international Peter Moller is now DBU's technical director
The Danish Football Association said the midfielder is out of danger. After the match was abandoned in the 65th minute, 2-1 to the Danes, Morten Boesen, Denmark's national team doctor, offered new explanations about what could have happened at the time of the incident.
“From what I saw, I think the implanted defibrillator had a problem while he was playing. I thought I saw him putting his hand to his chest and maybe even shouting “stop him!”. Then it collapsed. Then I reached him.
The device is now to be analyzed, as it can pinpoint the cause of the incident. He regained consciousness fairly quickly. I think the device did its job and managed to restore his heart rate,” Morten Boesen told TV 2 Sport.
