FILE - In this July 11, 2012 file photo, Japan's Homare Sawa, second right, celebrates after scoring their side's goal with teammates, Saki Kumagai (4), Nahomi Kawasumi (9), and Yuki Ogimi, left, against Australia during their friendly women's soccer match in Tokyo. Japan's world champion women's football team has taken exception to flying economy while their male counterparts sat in business class on a flight to Europe for the Olympics. The women's team was assigned seats in premium economy for the 13-hour flight to Paris while the nation's under-23 men's team was up front on the same flight. "It should have been the other way around," 2011 FIFA Women's World Player of the Year Sawa, 33, told Japanese media Monday, July 16, after arriving in the French capital. "Even just in terms of age we are senior." The Japan Football Association said the men flew business class because they are professionals. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)