Take off had a different meaning for Monaco players when they were unable to fly to Belgium as planned for their Champions League opener against Club Brugge.<\/p>\n
The air conditioning on the plane malfunctioned and led to excessively hot conditions.<\/p>\n
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So the players took their clothes off.<\/p>\n
Videos posted online by Monaco player Jordan Teze showed sweat-soaked players stripping down to just their underwear to deal with the heat and some fanning themselves.<\/p>\n
They then all stepped off the plane and onto the tarmac at Nice airport on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
After Monaco decided to fly out instead on Thursday morning for safety reasons, Monaco coach Adi H\u00fctter improvised his prematch news conference at Monaco’s training center on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n
“For technical reasons, it was impossible to travel, as everyone’s safety was not guaranteed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI’ve never experienced that before, but there are some circumstances that you have no influence over. For us, it was a little bit special and not so comfortable. But we are professionals and we prepare as normal for the game.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Take off had a different meaning for Monaco players when they were unable to fly to Belgium as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[10535,100128,30725,100129,403,99],"class_list":["post-165950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-champions-league","tag-club-brugge","tag-monaco","tag-monaco-coach","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}