In the world of the modern footballer, privacy is a hard thing to come by, as Brighton and Hove Albion’s Pascal Groß has found out while on international duty this week.
That’s according to BILD, who relay a funny and unfortunate story involving the Brighton man and some of his Germany teammates, who found themselves caught up in ‘chaos’ this week.
The newspaper explains that the Germany squad met up for a ‘harmless team building exercise’ this week that ended up in a ‘full red flag’.
The group had planned a harmless evening out as a group on Thursday evening, heading to an Italian steakhouse chosen by Eintracht Frankfurt goalkeeper Kevin Trapp.
At 8:05pm they entered the restaurant before spending two hours enjoying themselves and generally relaxing before their clash with Turkey.
But ‘then things got strange’. The team bus arrived to collect the group but five of them, including Brighton’s Groß, left through the side entrance.
Rather than getting the bus they headed for a waiting taxi but were then met with ‘constant, blaring honking’ coming from the vehicle that the driver couldn’t stop.
This went on for so long and caused such a fuss that the local residents came out of their houses to watch and film the ‘strange scenario’ and the unfortunate drivers’ attempts to rectify the situation.
In the interim, the rest of the team emerge and get on the bus before taking off without their teammates. Cue ‘emergency braking’ and DFB security officer José Meneses emerging 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, headed back to the hotel and presumably faced the ridicule of the rest of the group, who had avoided the chaos by simply sticking to the original script.
