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By Jamie Spencer Christian Eriksen kicked off his Euro 2024 campaign by scoring Denmark’s first goal of the tournament on Sunday evening, three years after he suffered a life-threatening cardiac arrest in his last European Championship appearance. The midfielder had collapsed on the pitch during his county’s Euro 2020 opener against Finland on home soil in Copenhagen. Teammate Simon Kjaer helped save Eriksen’s life by putting him in the recovery position, while urgent medical assistance arrived and resuscitation and defibrillation began. Thankfully, those interventions proved decisive. Eriksen…

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