Jose Mourinho revealed he was reduced to tears after Christian Eriksen collapsed on the pitch during Denmark’s Euro 2020 game against Finland.
In horryfing scenes, the Inter Milan midfielder fell to the floor during the first half of the match in Copenhagen on Saturday evening and required CPR before being stretchered off the pitch and taken to hospital.
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Denmark team doctor Morten Boesen has since confirmed that Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest and declared that “he was gone” prior to being resuscitated.
The 29-year-old is continuing his recovery in hospital in Copenhagen, where he remains in a stable condition, and has sent a postive message to his Denmark and Inter Milan teammates as he begins the road to recovery.
Mourinho, who managed Eriksen at Tottenham for almost three months before he moved to Inter Milan in January 2020, opened up to talkSPORT on his reaction to the shocking incident.
And he believes we should salute Eriksen’s survival and the way football united to show their support for the Dane.
The serial-winning manager, part of talkSPORT’s Euros coverage this summer, said: “Today I cannot stop thinking about what happened yesterday. I think it’s a day to celebrate, not to be sad.
“Hopefully football went in a direction where the organisation, the protocols the level of the doctors and the specialists, and I also believe God was looking at football in that moment. Everything together made Christian to be with us, to be with his family, to be alive.
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“It was much more important than football but at the same time I believe that it also showed the good values of football. The love, the solidarity, family spirit. It was not just about his family, it was about the football family. Football bringing people together.
“I prayed yesterday, I cried yesterday, but how many millions did it around the world? I believe many because football can bring people together.
“Yesterday, for the wrong reasons football brought people together, and at the end we can celebrate Christian is alive.
“Of course, I didn’t speak with him but I spoke with Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg this morning and Pierre is very positive about Christian.
“The news is good, so I think it’s a moment to celebrate.”
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