Christian Eriksen wins Comeback of the Year at the 2023 Laureus World Sports Awards.
A much respected and admired footballer, Christian Eriksen has played 120 times for the Denmark national team. During a Euro 2020 match against Finland in Copenhagen in June 2021, he suffered a cardiac arrest and was given cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the pitch. He was later fitted with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and returned to football in January 2022, playing for English club Brentford. Six months later he joined Manchester United on a three-year contract. In November he played for Denmark in the FIFA World Cup.
Full Winners List:
Laureus World Sportsman of the Year – Lionel Messi
Laureus World Sportswoman of the Year – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Laureus World Team of the Year – Argentina Men’s Football Team
Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year – Carlos Alcaraz
Laureus World Comeback of the Year – Christian Eriksen
Laureus World Sportsperson of the Year with a Disability – Catherine Debrunner
Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year – Eileen Gu
Laureus Sport for Good Award recipients – TeamUp
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