Fair play to Neymar, as usually when a footballer's tattoo makes the news it's because it looks ridiculous, or is just crap, but the Brazilian superstar has used his injury break to get himself some new ink, and it looks unusually good.
Neymar has decided to turn his calf into a storyboard depicting his rise from the favelas, and recruited Valencia based artist Miguel Bohigues to carry out the job. It appears to have been a good call, because this is seriously impressive:
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Fantastic artwork.
It certainly puts Stephen Ireland's angel wings to shame.
A footballer telling his story in tattoos has the potential to end in disaster, but this is one that we imagine the boy from Brazil will not regret.
