BERLIN (AP) – Germans awoke on Wednesday to discover the 7-1 demolition of Brazil in their World Cup semifinal was not a delightful dream but a scarcely believable reality.
The front-page headline in the country’s biggest-selling newspaper, Bild, read simply: “7-1. No words for it!”
The paper dedicated the next six pages to pictures of the Germany players scoring and celebrating, and marked veteran striker’s Miroslav Klose’s record-breaking 16th World Cup goal by offering readers a poster of “Miro Klose, Football God!”
When it finally got to words, it declared the team “immortal” and wrote: “This 7-1 is worth as much as a title.”
Germany legend Franz Beckenbauer, who won the World Cup as both player and coach, tweeted: “What was that? Hard to believe.”