Goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger wrote her name into the annals of German football history after her heroic performance against France on Saturday helped her team — who were down to 10 players — enter the semi-finals at the European Championship via a 6-5 penalty shootout win.

The 34-year-old Berger, a two-time cancer survivor, showed the same spirit to fight off the French attackers.

She made a jaw-dropping save in the first 15 minutes of extra time when she back-pedalled and leapt at full stretch, clawing the ball off the line after a header from her own teammate  threatened to loop in. After the game ended 1-1, following 120 minutes of playing time, she denied Alice Sombath’s penalty (France’s seventh), shortly after converting her own, to send the German fans into raptures.