Rostov-on-Don, Russia: The plane carrying Saudi Arabia´s World Cup teamsuffered a fire in one of its engines as the players flew to Rostov-on-Donfor their next match, the Saudi football federation said Monday.

The aircraft landed safely after what one of the Saudi players called a”simple malfunction”.link#_>

“It was a small fire in one of the engines, the right engine, but the planelanded safely,” association president Ahmad Al Harbi told Saudi sports TVchannel KSA.

One of the Saudi players, Hatan Bahbir, said in a video on the federation´sTwitter account: “We arrived safely and we are all fine… it was a simplemalfunction´.”

In the video, someone off-camera asks him if he was scared. He replies:”No, no. Well, of course we were scared a bit, but thank God.”

The Saudi Arabian Football Federation said in a statement it “would like toreassure everyone that all the Saudi national team players are safe, aftera technical failure in one of the airplane engines that has just landed inRostov-on-Don airport, and now they´re heading to their residence safely”.

The team were flying to Rostov-on-Don for their second match, againstUruguay on Wednesday, after they were thrashed 5-0 by Russia in the openinggame of the tournament.