Proud Homecoming for Japan's World Cup Winners
Source: Agencies |
July 20, 2011, Wednesday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
JAPAN gave its women's soccer team the rock star treatment yesterday on its return from an astonishing World Cup triumph in Germany.
Unused to the fanfare, the players filed quietly through the airport arrivals lobby in Tokyo, squinting as hundreds of excited fans snapped away with cameras.
"It hadn't sunk in that we'd won the World Cup until we landed at Narita airport," Japan captain Homare Sawa, the tournament's MVP and leading scorer, told reporters.
"I'd never seen so many people come to greet us," added the talismanic leader of Japan's "Nadeshiko" - named after a type of frilly pink carnation, symbolizing grace and stoicism. "It was amazing."
Winners of Asia's first world soccer title at any level, the winners then faced a media crush of 300 reporters.
Unused to the fanfare, the players filed quietly through the airport arrivals lobby in Tokyo, squinting as hundreds of excited fans snapped away with cameras.
"It hadn't sunk in that we'd won the World Cup until we landed at Narita airport," Japan captain Homare Sawa, the tournament's MVP and leading scorer, told reporters.
"I'd never seen so many people come to greet us," added the talismanic leader of Japan's "Nadeshiko" - named after a type of frilly pink carnation, symbolizing grace and stoicism. "It was amazing."
Winners of Asia's first world soccer title at any level, the winners then faced a media crush of 300 reporters.
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
