Denmark’s Christian Eriksen has been discharged from hospital and visited his teammates nearly a week after collapsing on the pitch.

The Danish football association said Eriksen has been through a successful operation, following his cardiac arrest during Denmark’s Euro 2020 game with Finland on Saturday.

The association tweeted: “Christian Eriksen has been through a successful operation and was discharged from Rigshospitalet.

“Today he also visited the national team in Helsinger – and from here he will go home and spend time with his family.”

In a message to well-wishers Eriksen said: “The operation went well and I am doing well under the circumstances.”

The Danish football association previously said that Eriksen will be fitted with an implantable device that can function as both a pacemaker and defibrillator.

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