Football united when Christian Eriksen slumped on the pitch against Finland and the special one revealed he cried while watching the game.
‘Today I cannot stop thinking about what happened yesterday,’ Mourinho told talkSPORT. ‘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.’