After nervously seeing out the final moments of the game, the German team and their fans, both back in Germany and in the stadium, burst into wild celebrations as the final whistle blew.
The Die Welt newspaper celebrated Germany’s victory with a three-word headline in the national colors of black, red and gold that read simply: “It is true,” while Der Spiegel magazine’s website listed Germany’s titles: “1954. 1974. 1990. 2014!”
Midfielder Mario Goetze, who wasn’t born when Germany won its last World Cup, sealed the title with his extra-time goal. ‘THANK GOETZ! World champions!’ screamed the mass-circulation daily Bild.
‘Super Mario gets the fourth star!’ read the headline in Berlin tabloid Berliner Kurier.
German astronaut Alexander Gerst congratulated the team from the International Space Station on its ‘top performance.’ He tweeted a picture of himself in a Germany team shirt with an extra fourth star – ‘as experts on stars, we already got one.’
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Joachim Gauck, who traveled together to the final in Rio de Janeiro. Merkel visited the players in the dressing room after the match and delivered a congratulatory speech and posed for photographs. A regular fixture at most Germany matches, Merkel is as passionate as any fan of the national side.
This morning British Prime Minister David Cameron, on a visit to the Farnborough air show, said: “Germany has done a great job. I texted Angela Merkel as soon as the match was over.”
About a quarter of a million fans celebrated into the night at the packed ‘fan mile’ in front of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, while car drivers blasted their horns into the early hours of the morning.
The German party is expected to resume tomorrow morning, when coach Joachim Low’s team is due to land at Berlin’s Tegel airport and then celebrate its triumph at the Brandenburg Gate.
The Finance Ministry said it will issue a special ‘Germany World Cup champion’ postage stamp. But don’t expect Germany to declare a national holiday in celebration.
‘There is no serious discussion of this,’ government spokeswoman Christiane Wirtz said.
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