On Thursday morning, in Munich, the health department was apparently still investigating the Alphonso Davies corona case, and an Air Europa plane landed at the city's airport.
There were two 16-year-olds on board: Arijon Ibrahimović and Paul Wanner.
They came from Spain, where the German Football Association is currently holding a training camp for its U-17 and U-16 national team in the small town of San Pedro del Pinatar - and where Ibrahimović and Wanner got their club's emergency number.
They were then driven to Madrid in a car and flown to Munich on a scheduled plane.
And if you believe what is in a “Sport1” report, they are said to have changed on the drive to Säbener Strasse, where Bayern’s final training session was scheduled for 11 am.
Christopher Meltzer
Sports correspondent in Munich.
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So it is in January 2022, in which the virus variant Omikron is also spreading in Germany, with the largest and most important sports competition: The first in the table, who actually has 25 players in his squad, has to fly in two boys from Spain to get enough participants to have a good workout.
This Friday (8.30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga, on Sat.1 and DAZN), FC Bayern will play the first Bundesliga game of the new year in its stadium against Borussia Mönchengladbach - even though those responsible for the club do not want to play. You have reported nine players with corona infections in the past few days: The goalkeeper Neuer. The defenders Hernández, Nianzou Richards and Upamecano. The midfielder Tolisso. And the strikers Coman and Sané. Alphonso Davies was added on Wednesday - and with him a possibly important difference. Unlike his eight teammates who got infected during the winter break, Davies has already trained with the team in Munich.
On Thursday, the Munich Health Department, which this week ordered the EHC Munich ice hockey team to quarantine because of several Omikron infections, could not be reached by the FAZ.
You are "in exchange," said Julian Nagelsmann, Bayern's coach, later in a press conference.
At this point he could not say whether Davies was infected with the Omicron variant.
But there was a note that speaks against quarantine for everyone: The day before the game, Nagelsmann was able to train with his team.
With Arijon Ibrahimović and Paul Wanner.
And six more players from their own offspring.
But initially neither the clubs nor the German Football League (DFL) gave a clear answer to the most important question: Will it be played now or not?