Victory in World Cup opener sparks street celebrations and banishes painful memories in Doha of failure to qualify for USA 1994
Kishida invited derision on social media after a tweet appeared on his official account while the match was taking place in which he mentioned his visit earlier in the day to the imperial palace. “I expressed my gratitude for a bountiful harvest and prayed for the prosperity of the imperial family and the peace of the nation,” he wrote.
Among the Japanese public figures congratulating the team on Twitter was the tennis player Kei Nishikori, who simply posted a row ofThe victory was the lead story in broadsheet and tabloid newspapers, with some noting that the agony of 29 years ago had been replaced in the national consciousness by the “Miracle of Doha”.
Social media lit up with praise for Asano, who plays for the German Bundesliga club VfL Bochum, and Japan’s other goalscorer, Ritsu Doan, who also plays his club football inSome credited Japan’s victory to Taiyo, a river otter at a Tokyo aquarium that had predicted the result the day before the match after placing a miniature football in a blue bucket marked with the Japanese flag, snubbing a red one with the German flag and a yellow one that was labeled “draw”, according to the Kyodo news...
“Moriyasu has been criticised a lot in the past, but he showed he can be a good strategist. I predict – I hope – that we can beat Costa Rica and draw against Spain. I’ll be cheering them on.”
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