A well-known Spanish pitch invader ran onto the field at Johannesburg's Soccer City stadium shortly before the teams came out for the World Cup final between the Netherlands and Spain.

The man, who wore a barretina (a traditional red bag-shaped hat worn in parts of Spain), T-shirt and jeans, ran toward the golden World Cup trophy, which was displayed on a pedestal, was intercepted by security guards a metre away from it and wrestled to the pitch.