Former Tottenham boss Jose Mourinho says he was alarmed at the Christian Eriksen’s collapse during Denmark’s match against Finland at Euro 2020.

The 29-old required CPR from his captain Simon Kjaer on the pitch in Copenhagen to survive the cardiac arrest.

Fans, players and Eriksen’s family desperately awaited further news before it was confirmed that he was awake and in a stable condition.

And Mourinho, who coached the midfielder for two months at Tottenham, has revealed his shocked reaction to the incident.

The 58-year-old told talkSPORT: “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.

“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.”