Nobody could have guessed that this story would one day end as a modern football fairytale when the doctors ran onto the pitch on June 12, 2021, a wonderful summer evening in Copenhagen, and fought for Christian Eriksen’s life. His heart had stopped beating, millions of people around the world shared his fate. These were moments in which the Dane became the most googled athlete of the year and rose to become a national symbol in his homeland. “Tak for tårerne, men jeg er her,” Eriksen said about six months later on Danish television during his first major interview after his collapse: “Thank you for the tears, but I’m here.”
