<p>Unused to the fanfare, the players filed quietly through the airport arrivals lobby in Tokyo, squinting as hundreds of excited fans snapped away with cameras.<br /><br />“It hadn't sunk in that we'd won the World Cup until we landed at Narita airport,” Japan captain Homare Sawa, the tournament's MVP and leading scorer, told reporters.<br /><br />“I'd never seen so many people come to greet us,” added the talismanic leader.</p>
<p>Unused to the fanfare, the players filed quietly through the airport arrivals lobby in Tokyo, squinting as hundreds of excited fans snapped away with cameras.<br /><br />“It hadn't sunk in that we'd won the World Cup until we landed at Narita airport,” Japan captain Homare Sawa, the tournament's MVP and leading scorer, told reporters.<br /><br />“I'd never seen so many people come to greet us,” added the talismanic leader.</p>