Soccer-From playmaker to pacemaker - how ICD could save Eriksen's career

FILE PHOTO: An electrode of a pacemaker is pictured with a three-dimensional printout of a human heart at the Klaus-Tschira-Institute for Integrative Computational Cardiology, department of the Heidelberg University Hospital (Universitaetsklinikum Heidelberg), in Heidelberg, Germany, August 14, 2018. Picture taken August 14, 2018. To match Insight HEALTHCARE-MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY/AI REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski/File Photo

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Christian Eriksen's soccer career could be saved by an implantable cardioverter defibrillator or ICD, a small battery-powered device to regulate his heartbeat following a cardiac arrest suffered on the pitch at a Euro 2020 game.

The Danish midfielder collapsed and received CPR on the pitch during their Group B clash with Finland in Copenhagen on Saturday, and on Thursday the Danish FA announced that he would have an ICD fitted.