The flight from Bayern Munich to Qatar to play the Club World Cup, scheduled for Friday night, could only take off this Saturday at 6:52 in the morning (German time) and the players had to spend the night on the plane at the Berlin airport.
The plans were fly after the match against Hertha Berlin, which was brought forward half an hour for that purpose, and Bayern was at the Willy Brandt airport in Berlin-Brandenburg at 22:45.
The plane was supposed to take off at 11:15 p.m. but He was only ready to do it at 11:59 p.m.
Take-offs after midnight are not allowed at the Berlin airport and since the takeoff time is a minute and a half it was necessary request a special authorization from the authorities of the federal state of Brandenburg, which was not granted.
“Brandenburg authorities do not know what they have done to our team“, said the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bayern Munich, Karlheinz Rummenigge, in statements to the Bild newspaper.
Bayern traveled with 22 players and without Javi Martínez or Leon Goretzka who were infected with coronavirus but it is not ruled out that they will later join the team.
