Privacy is difficult to come by in the modern footballer’s world, as Brighton and Hove Albion’s Pascal Groß discovered while on international duty this week.
According to BILD, the Brighton man and some of his Germany teammates were caught up in ‘chaos’ this week, which is both amusing and unfortunate.
According to the newspaper, the Germany squad met this week for a ‘harmless team building exercise’ that resulted in a ‘full red flag’.
On Thursday evening, the group had planned a harmless evening out, going to an Italian steakhouse recommended by Eintracht Frankfurt goalkeeper Kevin Trapp.
They entered the restaurant at 8:05 p.m. and spent two hours enjoying themselves and generally relaxing before their clash with Turkey.
But ‘then things got strange’. The team bus arrived to pick up the group, but five of them, including Brighton’s Groß, exited via the side door.
Instead of taking the bus, they took a waiting taxi, but were met with ‘constant, blaring honking’ from the vehicle that the driver couldn’t stop.
This went on for so long and caused such a stir that locals came out of their homes to watch and film the ‘strange scenario’ and the unfortunate drivers’ attempts to correct the situation.
In the meantime, the rest of the team emerges and boards the bus before departing without their teammates. Cue ’emergency braking’ and DFB security officer José Meneses appearing on his phone to the Brighton man and his teammates, who were now back in the restaurant and stuck after abandoning their taxi plan.
They eventually reunited with their teammates, returned to the hotel, and were presumably mocked by the rest of the group, who had avoided the chaos by simply sticking to the original script.
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