Germany's World Cup 2014 winners touch down in Berlin with thousands of adoring fans waiting at Brandenburg Gate

All you need is Low, apparently. And who can argue? Germany fans lined the streets of a sun-kissed Berlin in their thousands to welcome home the World Cup champions ahead of the largest gathering the city has seen since 1990. Perhaps even a year previous when the wall came down.

There they waited at the tip of Brandenburg Gate – the scene of seven parties over the past month to celebrate the heptagon of wins over in Brazil – for one final send off.

That take on the Beatles’ All You Need is Love was supplemented with ‘we take a bow’. This achievement – decimating all in sight – cannot be overestimated and is down in no small part to the meticulous planning and continued progression of their head coach, Joachim, over the last eight years.

Ready and waiting: Germany's supporters await the arrival of the country's World Cup stars in Berlin on Tuesday morning

We're back! Phillipp Lahm leads out his team of the private Boeing 747, with the steps decorated with a message 'World Cup winners 2014' and four stars

Keep hold of that! Captain Lahm grips the World Cup trophy with Bastian Schweinsteiger and Thomas Muller not far behind

Nice take: One fan raises a banner reading 'all you need is Low, we take a bow' before the likes of Thomas Muller and Manuel Neuer made their appearance

Sight to behind: Brandenburg Gate's footballing centre was beginning to fill up very early in the morning as the screen replayed highlights of the final win

And we've landed! The Germany side touched down at the airport Tegel in Berlin before making their way to greet delighted supporters

You've not nicked that, have you? A fan holds a replica World Cup aloft after getting right to the front of the queue to see his heroes

Is it a bird? Jubilant Germans clap and reach to the sky as the plane carrying the winning squad flies over the fan park before touching down

But it unlike him to take any over-zealous adulation, with the 54-year-old likely to leave that to his players.

The victorious 23-man squad were due to reach the fan park at 10am as pictures of them touching down at the city’s airport 45 minutes beforehand were met with a chorus of cheers at the heart of the capital.

Proud as punch: Mesut Ozil tweeted a couple of pictures - one when still on the plane with photographers waiting and another including Toni Kroos and Ron-Robert Zieler

All ready to board? The players are whisked on to a team bus, that includes '2014!' to mark their achievement in South America