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The Japanese women's football team was to business class on its flight from the London Olympics. This was a departure from how the team the U.K. Even though they are the soccer world champions, Japan's football association them economy class tickets. Meanwhile, the men’s team business class, even though they had never come to winning a major football tournament. The upgrade happened only the Japanese ladies won the Olympics silver medal. The men flew home empty-, being eliminated before the stages, but they still flew business class. The Japanese Football Association said this was because the men were “professionals”.

Members of the women's have complained they have been treated unfairly and . Japan’s star player and FIFA Women’s World Player of the Year Homare Sawa told Japanese reporters that the only time her team had been given business class seats was last year, they won the World Cup. Ms Sawa was perplexed at why she and her world champion team had to economy class on the 12-hour flight to London while her lesser-achieving counterparts enjoyed the of business. “It should have been the other way . Even just in terms of age, we are ,” she joked. Regardless, it is the Japan Football Association’s decision to decide who business class.