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A Streaker Tried To Steal Germany's World Cup Glory And Failed

One billion people watched the climax of Brazil 2014 on TV. They missed one crucial moment.

A Russian pitch invader tried to gatecrash the biggest sporting show on the planet on Sunday evening.

The live broadcast cut away...

#WorldCup Hold up in play for a pitch invader. TV cameras will not show him instead going to a brilliant night time shot of Rio.

...but basketball star LeBron James caught the action.

LeBron seemed pretty impressed: "Hahaha!! We're going streaking! Everyone's doing it. Man that was hilarious. #WorldCupFinal #Brazil"

German defender Benedikt Höwedes less so, after the self-styled "Natural Born Prankster" attempted to kiss him.

The pitch invader is Russian comedian/joker Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, who has six million YouTube subscribers.

See you guys tomorrow on Tv Germany vs Argentina

He had heavily trailed his appearance on Twitter.

And seems pretty pleased with the result.

Other football fans less so...

Not sure how being a pitch invader at a World Cup Final is funny. Waste of a ticket. Idiot.

Attempted gatecrash of biggest television event in history = FAIL.

hahahahahaha the World Cup production team making sure that the pitch invader gets no time on camera, nice #GERvARG

Playtime's OVER.