クルトワ is the transliteration of Courtois, which sounds like KURUTOEWA (BTW the original pronunciation should be somethign like koo-twah). Thibaut Courtois is the Belgian goalkeeper for Real Madrid that just won the UEFA Champions League.

During the final match that took place in Paris, Courtois performed several astonishing saves and allowed no goal from the opposing Liverpool players, contributing to Real Madrid’s 1:0 win last night.

All soccer lovers over the world have been posting about the match, those in Japan as well though the time was early morning in Asia. The tweets discussing Courtois (under the tag クルトワ) have caused the tag to trend on Twitter in Japan.

Learn more about Thibaut Courtois on wikipedia.