The lives of Japan’s players were transformed after victory against Ireland, but Kenki Fukuoka has urged his teammates to focus now on Samoa
The lives of Japan’s players were transformed after the final whistle sounded on Saturday against Ireland in Shizuoka. Victory against the team ranked No 1 in the world at the start of the World Cup turned virtual unknowns in their own country into celebrities, now mobbed when they appear in public.
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