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[𝙁🇸🇪🇨🇮 @fuadyabz23]

bro it’s like 14th game and i haven’t even seen a stadium being reused yet

[KALYJAY @gyaigyimii]

The Cape Verde players are too honest . The ball hits his hand and he stopped playing even though the ref didn’t whistle for a foul 😂😂😂

[Geronimo Morgans @GeronimoMorgans]

Rodri makes passing look so easy, man. Some of the balls he plays are genuinely nuts, bro.

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Japan honoured their captain Wataru Endo, who withdrew from the World Cup and announced his retirement from international football due to injury, by hanging his shirt on the bench throughout their match against the Netherlands 👕🇯🇵

[433 @433]

🚨 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐒 𝐉𝐀𝐏𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐒𝐄 𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 👏

Japanese fans ran onto the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo to celebrate their draw against the Netherlands.

They celebrated for only 40 seconds while the pedestrian light was green.

𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙔 𝘿𝙄𝘿 𝙉𝙊𝙏 𝘽𝙍𝙀𝘼𝙆 𝘼𝙉𝙔 𝙏𝙍𝘼𝙁𝙁𝙄𝘾 𝙍𝙐𝙇𝙀𝙎! 😭🇯🇵

The moment the light turned red, everyone stopped celebrating and returned to the sidewalk. 😂👏

[Ligue 1 English @Ligue1_ENG]

Wilfred Singo... What a PLAYER 🥵

[Erling Haaland @ErlingHaaland]

A dream 28 years in the making... let’s do this! 🇳🇴❤️ Full episode on YT! 🎬

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Everyone has been so impressed by Japanese fans cleaning up after themselves but most probably missed this beautiful moment at the post-game (🇳🇱2 - 2🇯🇵) press conference.

Toward the end after reporters were done asking questions, 🇯🇵head coach, Hajime Moriyasu, asked to speak one more time.

🗣️ “May I speak?”

He turned to the Dutch reporters in the room.

🗣️ “I think there are many Dutch reporters here as well, so I’d like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the people of the Netherlands once again.”

Moriyasu explained that when he became part of the Japan national team, Japanese football still had no professional league.

🗣️ “I was trained by a Dutch coach named Hans Ooft. It wasn’t just me. Japanese coaches in general were greatly influenced by him, which has led to the development of Japanese soccer today.”

He also mentioned another Dutch figure who shaped his career.

🗣️ “The legendary Dutch coach Wim Jansen served as the manager for J.League’s Sanfrecce Hiroshima and also as a coach for Urawa Reds, contributing to Japanese soccer.”

🗣️ “It’s not just those two. Many other coaches and players have contributed to raising the level of Japanese soccer, so I want to express my thanks. Thank you very much.”

What a masterclass in graciousness and gratitude. Imagine after a high-stakes match, instead of basking in glory and bravado (well-deserved in my opinion), the coach took to the microphone to... thank his opponents publicly and sincerely.

Japan's cultural operating system prizes harmony (wa), respect for precedent, and gratitude as a form of strength, not weakness. Japanese sports culture reflects its broader society where you'll see athletes bow to their opponents, thanking referees, and even crediting rivals or mentors.

Think of sumo wrestlers, Olympic athletes, or even bullet-train staff apologizing for a 30-second delay.

The Japanese have this concept of On (恩) - it is the sense of indebtedness to those who came before or helped you. It's what you'd expect from a culture that truly prizes continuity.

Moriyasu was acknowledging a real debt to Dutch coaches like Hans Ooft (who coached Japan in the early 90s and helped professionalize the game) and Wim Jansen. Japanese football openly credits foreign influences - Dutch "Total Football" philosophy, German organization, Brazilian flair - while building something distinctly their own. Few nations do this with such little ego.

Japan is pure class

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

CAPE VERDE EARN THEIR FIRST-EVER POINT AT A WORLD CUP AND DO IT VS. ONE OF THE FAVORITES 🤯

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Vozinha was in tears after his heroic performance earned a clean sheet and Cabo Verde's first-ever World Cup point 🥺

[Liban @LibanLDN]

Football is genuinely the closest thing we have to a universal language. Expanding the World Cup to 48 teams was a top tier decision man. More countries, more cultures, more stories.

[Erling Haaland @ErlingHaaland]

No more waiting 🇳🇴❤️

[Dan Thomas @DanThomasESPN]

Cape Verde have had more possession than Arsenal did in the UCL final.

[Football on TNT Sports @footballontnt]

Japan manager Hajime Moriyasu was in tears listening to their national anthem at the World Cup. One of our favourite photos from the tournament so far ❤️

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

Can’t lie bro. Rodri is really good at this game called Football.

[433 @433]

40-year-old Vozinha heavily emotional after keeping a clean sheet against Spain 🥹

Imagine playing in Portugal’s second tier and keeping a clean sheet on your World Cup debut with a world-class performance like that 🤯

The craziest thing: Vozinha was not a professional footballer until he turned 25 😳

At 25, he started his career in Angola after spending years in amateur football.

Now he is Man of the Match on his World Cup debut, keeping a clean sheet against the favourites.

𝗪𝗛𝗔𝗧 𝗔 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬.

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

Reunited on the world stage. 🩵

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

Japan’s goalkeeper, Zion Suzuki, must be destroying the minds of a lot of racists. Turns out the US-born son of a Ghanaian and a Japanese who grows up in Japan is, after all, Japanese

[SG @04gully]

Diomande your chain might be real kid, was killing Hincapie down the rw and just moved to lw and is doing the same shit. Leipzig you’ll be getting paid handsomely after this World Cup