German footballer pretends to use passport as phone to avoid journalists

When you want to avoid talking about football during a break from the game

What do you do when you are a world renowned footballer and you land on an airport just to find yourself surrounded by reporters and photographers ready to hound you with questions?

Well, German international and Bayern Munich forward Thomas Muller had an amazing and hilarious answer to the problem.

The 27-year-old landed in Germany after an away trip to Qatar with his club team and avoided the questions which were surely going to come firing his way by posing with his passport as he was on call.

It took everyone some time to guess that the footballer had just pulled off a prank of them as they avoided disturbing his call.

Translation of tweet: Simply outstanding - typically Thomas Müller

Einfach überragend - Typisch Thomas Müller 😂 😂 😂 pic.twitter.com/ZXicXRWDrw

— Sky Sport News (@SkySportNews) January 11, 2017

Bayern Munich resume their league campaign on Friday, January 20 with a trip to Freiburg. Carlo Ancelotti's club currently lead the table by three points, sitting above challengers RB Leipzig at the top of the Bundesliga.