Instagram highlights from the past 24 hours, including World Cup drama, a streaker, a really messy baby, stunningly sexy women, and Liverpool and Southampton in pre-season action.
Shakira was the star of the show at the World Cup closing ceremony. Here she is hours before the big event.
And here is the Colombian darling in full flow.
2010 World Cup winner Carles Puyol and supermodel Gisele Bundchen were
also at the Maracana very early.
The pair were introduced the crowd before kickoff in the World Cup final.
Gisele is not Puyol’s romantic partner by the way. This is his girlfriend, Vanessa Lorenzo, who is an underwear model.
Sticking with the theme of romance, Kevin-Prince Boateng spent a love-filled Sunday with Melissa Satta.
The statue of Christ the Redeemer was lit up in the colours of Argentina before the big match.
And then in the colours of Germany.
All the big names were in Rio for the World Cup, even Rihanna, who had spent Saturday night swimming off the Brazilian coast.
Jose Enrique uploaded pictures from his Liverpool FC night out with Philippe Coutinho, Iago Aspas, Tiago Ilori, Joao Teixeira and all of their wives and girlfriends.
Former Arsenal right-back Bacary Sagna was in Sardinia with his beautiful wife Ludivine. He will join up with his new Manchester City teammates later this month.
From one ex Arsenal star to another… Here is Robert Pires and partner Jessica Lemarie.
After the first week of pre-season training went well, Liverpool uploaded some images of players working hard. Here are Fabio Borini (above) and Suso (below).
Liverpool also shared training pictures of Coutinho (above) and new signing Emre Can (below).
While his teammates have been working hard in training, captain Steven Gerrard has been enjoying an extended holiday because of his involvement in the World Cup.
Southampton headed to Belgium for their pre-season tour. Striker Jay Rodriguez looked very excited.
Maya Yoshida, who represented Japan at the World Cup, joined the Saints at the airport.
Goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga’s passport seemed to amuse some of his teammates.
Neymar’s girlfriend Gabriella Lenzi (left) uploaded a picture of her Saturday night out.
Meanwhile, Wesley Sneijder’s wife Yolanthe shared this lovely image.
Former England and Manchester United captain Rio Ferdinand met up with Brazil legend Pele.
Pele was in the company of David Beckham and Kaka later in the day.
Former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner was at the Maracana. He took the below picture from the posh seats.
Fans began to get excited as kickoff between Germany and Argentina approached.
Thousands of Germany fans gathered in Berlin.
This is how Real Madrid star Gareth Bale watched the big game. Small tele for the world’s most expensive player, don’t you think?
Deviating from the World Cup briefly, here is the baby daughter of Swansea City midfielder Jonjo Shelvey. She clearly wasn’t impressed with the standard of her evening meal.
Gonzalo Higuain thought he had scored the opening goal in the World Cup final, but his first-half strike was correctly ruled out for offside.
The main highlight of a goalless 90 minutes was an incident involving a streaker, which was captured on video by NBA star LeBron James.
The game went to extra time and Mick Jagger was loving it.
Bastian Schweinsteiger got a nasty blow on the head from Sergio Aguero. Javier Mascherano rather innocently attempted to comfort the Bayern Munich man, but the camera angle was unfortunate.
Mario Gotze scored a stunning winner in the second period of extra time as Germany prevailed 1-0 to secure their fourth World Cup triumph.
Gotze’s winner was assisted by Chelsea midfielder Andre Schurrle. The pair celebrated together.
Arsenal’s Lukas Podolski receives a kiss from fellow champion Schweinsteiger.
German captain Philipp Lahm lifts the golden trophy aloft.