The photo that captures the madness among Croatia's celebrations

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Croatian players celebrated their goal next to photographers. Captura/ Telemundo

The Croatian national team booked a place in the World Cup final in Russia with a Mario Mandzuckic goal. In their celebration, the players ended up jumping on top of a photographer that took a photo of the moment that is being circulated around the world.

Croatia were elated after Mandzukic got the 109th minute goal that ended up being the strike that took them to the World Cup final. The moment of ecstasy among the Croatian players took place in front one of the photographers postioned on the side of the pitch.

The photographer, who knew that he would be ablte to snap some memorable photographs of the moment, did not bother getting out of the way of the players, despite them jumping on top of him.

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Croatian centre-back Vida gave him a kiss in the midst of the celebrations.

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The main photo of the night went round social media instantly. It captures Mandzuckic with his hand out stretched appearing to apologise to the photographer.

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