Team Japan may have been beaten in their first match in this year’s FIFA World Cup, but their fans have won praise for setting the standard for model football fans.
Even after watching Côte d’Ivoire coming back from one goal down to beat Japan in a heartbreaking 1-2 defeat in their home country’s debut on Sunday, Japanese fans stayed behind after the match to clean up litter as the rest of the audiences filed out of the stadium.
Photos by spectators posted online showed Japanese fans helping to pick up rubbish from the stands, wearing raincoats to combat the drizzly weather.
Although cleaning up after themselves after sport events is common in Japan, their act impressed many online users who are accustomed to scenes of football fans across the world who are notorious for their usually unruly behaviour.
Team Japan may have been beaten in their first match in this year’s FIFA World Cup, but their fans have won praise for setting the standard for model football fans.
Even after watching Côte d’Ivoire coming back from one goal down to beat Japan in a heartbreaking 1-2 defeat in their home country’s debut on Sunday, Japanese fans stayed behind after the match to clean up litter as the rest of the audiences filed out of the stadium.
Photos by spectators posted online showed Japanese fans helping to pick up rubbish from the stands, wearing raincoats to combat the drizzly weather.
Although cleaning up after themselves after sport events is common in Japan, their act impressed many online users who are accustomed to scenes of football fans across the world who are notorious for their usually unruly behaviour.