japan 2 1 usa
C'mon nadeshiko

Mike USA salutes the great SAWA..Brilliant pass by the 'Great One' SAWA and a magnificient finish by KARINA - poetry in motion! Go Go Banzai Girls...American loves you! Football doesn't get any better than this.

The Japanese proved once again that great skill, smartness, dicipline and cool nerves will always win out over brute force, clumsiness and lack of coordination and panic. The deserved to win!

Watch out that deadly combination again SAWA/Karina to bring victory over Sweeden. 2-1

Mike USA

Combination of great finish and terrible goalkeeping. Good job Japan!

The Japanese are well organised. Well Done!

Congratulations to the "Nadeshiko"!
Here in Germany, many men are glad you kicked the German women out of the tournament - they and the whole media kept bragging that they are so much better than the men's national team, they really expected to become world champions again and had slogans like "Third places are for men" etc.
So now WE have the last laugh and can say "Yeah, third places are for men, and 8th places are for women!"
It's really crazy that they made some gender-political event out of the WWC. But now we can all enjoy the rest of the tournament. Thank you, Japan! ^^

Germans werent that much bad.. they played extremely well.. but in the end great build uo goal by Nippon Girls..

Japan = Giant killers!

I thought Germany was going to destroy them..

Im glad Japan won.... I dislike Germany

What did the GK?!

What a pass.

DAMN.

Well taken goal.

alter schwede

yaaaaaa JAPAN!!!!

brilliant pass, great finish. banzai banzai !