Japanese Players Leave Touching Messages In The Locker Room After Being Eliminated From The 2022 World Cup

The Japanese national team (Twitter @bestgug)

JAKARTA — Players of the Japanese national team left touching messages in their dressing room after being eliminated from the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Samurai Blue, nicknamed the Japanese national team, lost to Croatia on penalties in the round of 16 at the Janoub Stadium, Monday, December 5, after a 1-1 draw for 120 minutes.

Japan failed to step into the last eight after only scoring one penalty from four attempts.

Despite the loss, their players still took the time to clean the locker room and leave it in pristine condition.

Apart from that, they also made origami cranes which they left as gifts to the hosts. There are also messages of thanks written in Japanese and Arabic.

The Japanese national team made an origami crane that they left as a gift to hosts Qatar (Twitter @bestgug)

This is as they once did after their historic win over Germany in the group stages. At the 2018 World Cup in Russia, they also did the same thing after being dramatically eliminated by Belgium.

They repeated the same action after losing to Qatar at the 2019 Asian Cup. Not only the players, but their supporters also cleaned up the stands after watching the matches in Qatar.

This they started doing at the end of the World Cup opening game between Qatar and Ecuador. They brought large plastic bags to collect leftover food waste.