AFP - Bayern Munich's Club World Cup mission got off to a rocky start with their take-off from Berlin on a direct flight to Qatar delayed seven hours overnight Friday. After beating Hertha Berlin 1-0, the team made their way to the airport and had boarded their plane expecting to arrive in Doha six-and-a-half hours later. Bayern had to disembark the Qatar Airlines plane which had been due to leave at 2315 but in the end was only given the all-clear for departure one minute before the flight curfew began. "We had the impression that the competent authorities didn't care about us," an irate Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Bayern's chairman, told Bild. "Those in charge (at the airport) don't have an inkling of what they've done to our team."

Source: Egypt Today February 06, 2021 12:56 UTC