Cheers and tears as Spain defeats Germany in the Worlds cup Semi-final

Football fans celebrated wildly in Madrid on Wednesday night as Spain beat Germany 1-0 to reach the World Cup final for the first time. A Fan Zone next to Madrid's Santiago Bernabeu Stadium was packed with enthusiastic supporters in the team's red and yellow colours.
But although Spain dominated play for long periods of time the fans had nothing to really cheer about until the 73rd minute, when Carles Puyol put them in front with a fine header.
After the final whistle, jubilant fans wandered along the city's main Paseo de la Castellana boulevard waving flags and interrupting traffic. "They show the best that they have. With a team like this we are without words," said one fan, Marco Carrillo. Chants of "Ole, Ole, Ole" rang out everywhere as the celebrations spread. Dozens of cars honked their horns as they drove through the city's main streets.
Similar scenes were reported in cities such as northeastern Barcelona and southwestern Cadiz.
The game, at Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium, was a rematch of the 2008 European Championship final, which Spain won by the same score. Spain had never beaten Germany at the World Cup in three previous attempts and the team had trouble finishing until Puyol's late strike.
For much of the game, three-time champion Germany merely sat back and waited patiently to snuff out Spain's attack, hoping to launch a counterattack that rarely took off.
It was a sharp change from Germany's last two outings, when it scored four goals each in impressive victories over England and Argentina. Disappointed Germany fans streamed out of the Fan Zone in central Berlin after the final whistle. "It's like in 2008. If we'd have lost 4-0 one wouldn't be so angry, but 1-0 it's a shame," said one fan.
Hundreds of German fans who had gathered to watch the match at a special event in Majorca were left distraught by the result. "We're really sad, it's such a shame, we came here to this party to celebrate, and then this!", one woman said. In Durban after the match, scores of Spaniards danced and sang outside the stadium but German fans left in sombre moods as the dreams of the country's young team crashed.
Spain's best previous World Cup finish was fourth in 1950, when the final round consisted of a four-team group. In Sunday's final at Soccer City Stadium, Spain will meet the Netherlands, another team that has never won football's biggest trophy. Germany will face Uruguay in a third-place play-off on Saturday. Meanwhile, in Madrid, a lucky group of Spanish supporters were on their way to Johannesburg late on Wednesday night, with the knowledge that they would be watching their team in the final.
Just minutes away from getting on board a flight to South Africa, fans spoke of their delight that Spain had beaten Germany.
The fans had watched the game at Madrid, Barajas airport wearing hats and flags in the Spanish colours.
The group, workers at a German supermarket chain, were on their way to watch the match on Sunday whether Spain had won or lost.