While traveling Japanese fans won plaudits for cleaning up World Cup stadiums following Samurai Blue matches, the players themselves were lauded online Tuesday for leaving their locker room spotless as they exited the tournament. In the wake of their gut-wrenching 3-2 loss to Belgium in the round of
While traveling Japanese fans won plaudits for cleaning up World Cup stadiums following Samurai Blue matches, the players themselves were lauded online Tuesday for leaving their locker room spotless as they exited the tournament.
In the wake of their gut-wrenching 3-2 loss to Belgium in the round of 16 on Monday night in Rostov-on-Don, tweets featuring a photo of Japan’s post-match locker room at Rostov Arena began to go viral on Twitter.
The image, originally shared by a FIFA coordinator, showed an immaculate changing area with a note prominently displayed at the center reading „thank you“ written in Russian.
