The Japan team, defeating Colombia in the 2018 World Cup in Russia, won the title of "the first Asian country to defeat a South American country" in the championship history. The Japanese fans, who came from thousands of kilometers away and supported their teams, drew attention with their cheers during the match. The Japanese fans who did not lose their excitement for a moment, displayed a model behavior and had no conflict with the Colombian supporters who stayed side by side in the stands. The Japanese, who did not leave the stadium due to the match being won, cleaned the stands with the trash bags they brought with them. These moments of the fans were highly acclaimed in social media.

Japan's supporters who won the Asian title, defeating Colombia with a 2-1 score at the Mordovia Arena in Saransk, Russia, thus defeating a South American representative for the first time in the World Cup history, cleaned the stadium.

While celebrating the triumphs of the Japanese fans' teams, the images of the stadium with frantic trash bags on their hands have been published on Twitter and Youtube.

Among social media users, this behaviour of Japanese fans was highly acclaimed. The Twitter user 'Julie', shared the images of the fans' cleaning work and shared the message 'Japanese fans are the best'.

Another Twitter user, Raymond, shared the images and commented "You will introduce your country to the world when you are abroad. Sincerely.'' The Japanese fans have appreciated international organizations for clearing the stadium after their teams' matches. In 2014, after the team's 4-0 defeat to Brazil in a friendly match in Singapore, Japanese fans gathered their garbage again.

Scott McIntyre, a journalist who specializes in soccer and who lives in Japan and explains the subject to the BBC, "This is not just football culture, it's part of Japanese culture. You often hear from people that football is a cultural reflection. An important feature of the Japanese society is that everything must be absolutely clean, and this certainly applies to the football. "

Source: Sozcu.com.tr