According to the Japanese media outlet Number , Kento Shiogai received death threats for his comments about Brazil during the World Cup.
According to reports, after saying in an interview that Brazil was no longer the team it once was, he opened his social media before training and found an unusually large number of comments, almost all of which were in English and Portuguese.
The team boarded a chartered plane to Houston, the venue for the first match in Brazil, and the notification sounds in the comments section kept ringing.
The defamatory attacks in private messages escalated, and even messages containing death threats began to appear.
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