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At the turn of the century, the art of tattooing among footballers ceased to be the destiny of the few. More and more players began to decorate their bodies.
According to the famous Dnipro tattoo artist Dmytro Yavtushenko, whose clients included Yevhen Seleznyov, Kostyantyn Kravchenko, Vitaliy Mandzyuk, Pavlo Pashayev, Oleksiy Antonov, Oleksandr Aliyev, Oleksiy Belyk, Andriy Rusol, Osmar Ferreyra, Denys Hlavina, Andriy Rusol, Pavlo Pashayev, Vitaliy Kaverin, Dmytro Mikhaylenko, Mykola Medin, Oleksiy Polyanskyi, Denys Dedechko, Oleksiy Polyanskyi, Joel Abu Hanna, Oleksandr Zgura, Levan Arveladze, Eric Mutokoi, Anton Kravchenko and many other footballers, our players prefer not to display their tattoos publicly and do not allow them to be photographed.
Firstly, so that such a tattoo remains unique and no one copies it, and secondly, they all have contracts, and this is prohibited by the terms. But they do share common themes — as a rule, these are religion, clouds, light, family, loved ones, love.
In the match of the previous round against Lutsk's Volyn, Dynamo Kyiv midfielder Andriy Yarmolenko scored his 49th and 50th goals in the Ukrainian Premier League, kissing his left forearm each time. The reason is that in the spring of that year (22 May), Yarmolenko became a father. The footballer's wife Inna gave birth to a boy, whom they decided to name Ivan. And the father immediately immortalized the joyous moment on his forearm, tattooing his son's name in Latin letters and the date of his birth in Roman numerals, and now he presses his lips to the tattoo every time he scores a goal.
This way of decorating oneself is very common among footballers — both Ukrainian and foreign.
As for the Dynamo midfielder, Andriy's first tattoo appeared on his back. He says he chose that spot specifically so that other tattoos would not catch the eye and would not bore him. The back inscription reads I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
At Donetsk's Shakhtar, Luiz Adriano leads in the number of tattoos — his arms are completely covered with drawings. That is why it seems that under his jersey he wears a long-sleeved sweater. The Brazilian does not hide the origin of the wing-shaped tattoo on his back: "I once saw it on the Frenchman Cissé and wanted the same." Also on the Brazilian's neck, the name of his daughter Alícia shines.
The star forward of the Swedish national team and French Paris Saint-Germain, Zlatan Ibrahimović, need not fear if he gets lost in an unfamiliar city or country. All information about his relatives and himself is tattooed on his body. His tattoos: birth dates of his parents, brothers and sisters on his wrists, the names of his sons Maximilian and Vincent on his shoulders, his own surname in Arabic on his arm, the names of his mother and father on his arms, and on his side the inscription "only God can judge me." The pattern on his shoulder, the red dragon and two aces on his side, according to the Swedish footballer of Bosnian origin, are depicted for luck.
P.S. Of course, these are far from all the former and current footballers who have painted their bodies with tattoos. For example, the most famous of them: David Beckham, who became the trendsetter of tattoo fashion among his colleagues, the modest Lionel Messi, who depicted the palm prints of his son on his legs and his grandmother's face on his left shoulder blade, Diego Maradona (Ernesto Che Guevara on his right shoulder and Fidel Castro on his leg), Francesco Totti (a gladiator on his right shoulder), Andriy Shevchenko (a dragon on his left shoulder), Andriy Voronin (a snake on his arm with numerous ornaments), Mathieu Debuchy, Kevin-Prince Boateng, Dani Alves, Ezequiel Lavezzi, Jermaine Pennant, Daniele De Rossi, Guti and many, many others...
