Sweden anxious for Olsson: on a ventilator after falling ill at home

Stockholm, 27 February – Sweden anxious about the conditions Kristoff Olsson, hospitalized for a week for an "apparently acute brain disease" and on a ventilator, as his Danish club, the Midtjylland, released to put an end to rumors circulating about the player's absence.

"The 28-year-old Swedish national team player he lost consciousness at home on Tuesday 20 February and was transferred to Aarhus University Hospital, where he is hospitalized and on a ventilator. Kristoffer Olsson is suffering from an apparently acute, brain-related illness, which is not due to self-harm of any kind, nor is the cause due to external factors. A team of top Danish medical experts is currently working to make a diagnosis and initiate the right treatment,” the club said in a statement.

"FC Midtjylland urgently asks the public – continues the note – to show respect and understanding, so that Kristoffer, the family and the doctors have the peace of mind necessary to ensure Kristoffer's healing and recovery in the best possible way. Everyone at FC Midtjylland are obviously affected to the core by Kristoffer's sudden illness and our thoughts and full support go to Kristoffer and his family. FC Midtjylland has no further statement to make at this time, but we will inform the public as new information emerges Growing up in Arsenal's youth ranks, Olsson played for FCM and AIK (Stockholm), then Krasnodar and Anderlecht, before returning to Midtjylland last summer. the Swedish Football Federation wished him a speedy recovery. “The whole Swedish football family is thinking of you and hopes that you can recover soon,” it wrote.