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The trip to France took place during the afternoon, but with a delay that left the dragons on the brink of a nervous breakdown.
The departure of flight BRO021 of 2Excel Aviation was initially scheduled for 3.30 pm, except that the plane chartered by FC Porto took off from the Francisco Sá Carneiro airport runway 41 minutes later than scheduled.
The worst thing was not this: what irritated and caused great discomfort to the dragons was the fact that the players and other members of the Porto team led by the club president, Pinto da Costa, were forced to spend an hour on their feet. inside the north airport. until they were conveniently seated in the respective places of the giant metallic bird that carried them to the south of France.
This type of unpleasant penance to which footballers, coaches, other team support staff and managers were subjected was due to an inspection of security procedures in the VIP area of Pedras Rubras airport, decreed by the National Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC), which coincided precisely with the presence of blues and whites in that space.
Only after the inspection was completed, the delegation received authorization to proceed to the plane that would land at the Marseille-Provence airport at 7:20 p.m. local time (one more than in Portugal), at a time when the night was already full. . French territory.
Until two hours before kick-off, the Porto players will be comfortably accommodated in a hotel not far from the Vélodrome, surrounded by a bubble that is proof of the second wave of pandemic that forced Marseille to close again at home.
