The Japanese supporters at the stadium also continue their caring tradition.
Japan is a soccer-loving nation, so sports enthusiasts across the country were excited World Cup 2022 opened. Slightly less exhilarating, however, was that the Japanese team’s first match would be against the perennial powerhouse Germany.
Any fears that Germany would crush Japan turned out to be misplaced, however, because Japan completed a stunning comeback with a 2–1 win. It’s Yamcha-defeat-Vegeta level nervousness, and with all the energy and adrenaline the Japanese athletes felt after the win, you’d expect them to let loose and go wild at the event.
Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t. But before any team celebration that may or may not have happened, the Japanese team made sure that the locker room was immaculately clean.
After the historic victory over Germany in the 1 #FIFAWorldCup on match day 4, Japanese fans were cleaning up their garbage in the stadium while @jfa_samuraiblue they left the locker room at Khalifa International Stadium like this. Immaculate.
House Arigato.👏🇯🇵 pic.twitter.com/NuAQ2xrwSI
— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) November 23, 2022
“Immaculate,” says the official FIFA Twitter account, and they’re not kidding. Not a single piece of garbage or even a drop of sweat remained. The used towels were neatly folded and stacked, as were the remaining bottles of water that were provided to the team. On the table, what appear to be the remains of meals and snacks are arranged in neat rows.
Over there are a few pieces of paper left by the Japanese team, but not torn packaging or crumpled notes. Instead…
They left that too. 😍 pic.twitter.com/mSrHzIsEbm
— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) November 23, 2022
… are on the table 11 origami cranes, the appropriate number for the soccer team, and the message “Thank you!” in both Japanese and Arabic.
Meanwhile, the fans who attended the match continued the tradition of Japanese fans at international sporting events to clean their part of the stadium before returning home.
Cleaning up after one of their biggest #FIFAWorldCup wins 👏
Huge respect for these Japanese fans 🙌 #Qatar2022 pic.twitter.com/RVwLwykPeq
— FIFA World Cup (@FIFAWorldCup) November 24, 2022
While beating Germany on the soccer field is not something Japan does very often, good manners are constant.
Source: NHK News Network
Top image: Pakutaso
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