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Top level footballers are best known for their fancy footwork, flashy cars and extravagant hairstyles.

But with all the cash that comes with being a worldwide superstar, footballers are littering their body in tattoos – and some of them are incredibly peculiar.

From bizarre tributes to dodgy designs, there’s a wide range of eye-catching body art on show around the world.

We’ve searched intently and put together the definitive list of weird and wacky ink.

Here’s who we found – and remember, some of these are PERMANENT…

*shudders*

That’s right Leo, you’ve made the list… (Image: AFP)

1. Alberto Moreno

Some times Liverpool left-back Moreno’s bespectacled monkey holding a gun is perplexing.

The thigh tattoo is an enigma in meaning and taste.

Moreno only made 18 appearances for the Reds this season, with rumours abound that that is about hiding this monstrosity rather than his awful form.

Alberto Moreno tattoo
Monkey business (Image: Instagram/franco_tattoo)

2. Andres D’Alessandro

Some people get tattoos of their other half, children or even pets – but a tat of your own face is just plain weird.

Just in case his onlookers can’t look all of two foot higher, the former Portsmouth man has plastered his own mug on his torso.

Even if you are the most handsome bloke in the world, which with all respect to D’Alessandro he ain’t, this is just wrong.

Andres D’Alessandro getting tattoo of his face on stomach in Vertigem tattoo
‘My ego is *this* big’ (Image: Instagram/@vertigemtattoos)

3. Alessandro Diamanti

At a cursory glance at Diamanti’s arms and you would think he is the king of an Italian prison.

On a closer look you notice his tats are the doodles of a teenage girl bored in double maths.

Smiley faces, peace signs, pool balls and random stars – all fine on their own but together not great.

Scribbles
Happy smiley people (Image: Reuters)

4. Ryan Mason

When a fan spotted this horror show during an England match he took to Twitter to ask why Mason “had a tattoo of his face when he was 12?”

The bicep blip is of what we presume is his mother – but it isn’t very flattering.

First rule of tattoos: don’t get tattoos of faces.

A 12 year old boy?

5. Uros Vitas

“Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear” – as the Chuckle Brothers once said.

This is the most terrifying tattoo on this list.

Why? Well look at it! It’s a stretched out version of his wife’s face, ON HIS TORSO.

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Again, see the first rule of tattoos.

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6. John Stones

Stones has been showcasing his brand new tattoo of a middle-aged man wearing glasses throughout this season.

It has been reported that the tattoo depicts Barnsley legend Norman Rimmington, who passed away on December 26 last year at the age of 90.

A nice sentiment indeed if that is the case, but it remains one of the more bizarre pieces of bodywork you’ll see – especially on the upper leg.

Throwing the claim that the tattoo is Rimmington into doubt, is the fact that the face appears to be accompanied by that of a woman’s.

It has been suggested that the black and white portrait could therefore depict family members of the England international.

Stones’ leg tattoo was spotted during England vs Brazil (Image: PA Wire)

7. Amato Ciciretti

Rule two of tattoos: don’t get a tattoo of something which WILL go out of date.

This rule extends from girlfriends to memes.

Putting your Twitter handle on your body is utterly ridiculous – even more odd when you are a nobody playing in Italian second tier.

Make sure you follow (Image: Twitter/@Ciciretti)

8. Sergio Ramos

Tattoos need to be personal, have a nice meaning behind them.

But ideally they would be intelligible for someone who has at least a passing knowledge in you should know.

This from Real Madrid’s last minute wonder needs a special tool to decipher.

Apparently Ramos had both 32 and 35 as shirt numbers when he was at Sevilla. He was 19 when he made his Spain debut. The 90 is still a mystery as far as we can tell.

Sergio Ramos hand tattoo
Handy (Image: Instagram/sr4oficial) 

9. Damien Delaney

Clowns are scary. It is a scientific fact.

Clown tattoos are really not scary.

This from Crystal Palace’s Delaney is definitely one of the worst in the Premier League.

Damien Delaney's tattoo
Clowning around (Image: David Klein/Sport Image)

10. Artur Boruc

Oh no, we were very wrong about Delaney’s clown being the worst tattoo in the Premier League.

Bournemouth’s holy goalie Boruc out does him with a monkey – with the Pole’s belly button being the *ahem* backside of the cheeky mammal.

To be honest we did have a little bit of a chuckle about this but that doesn’t mean it isn’t poor.

Making an a*** of yourself (Image: Rangers FC via PA)

11. Dennis Erdmann

If you are playing in the German third tier for Hansa Rostock you really need something to raise your profile.

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Defender Erdmann did just that by getting a kiss from his girlfriend tattooed on his neck.

Unless you are standing right next to him it just looks suspiciously like he has the bubonic plague.

His father is a professor of experimental physics and diplomat and seemingly hogged all the brain cells.

Kissing shame (Image: Bongarts)

12. Marco Materazzi

What catches the eye first in this picture is the wings on Materazzi’s back. They are actually quite cool.

But avert you eyes slightly right and you see a stack of trainers.

WHY!?!

Just looks like a poor sponsor’s idea.

Just do it* *actually don’t (Image: Getty)

13. Jay Bothroyd

Everyone’s famous one-time England international who has also played in Thailand and Japan.

On first sight this is a horrific mix of guns, grenades and knives.

In reality it is much much worse than that – as it spells out the world “love”.

No idea why he looks so smug of it in this snap.

Jay Bothroyd
Love is all you need* *no it isn’t

14. Alberto Gilardino

We like to think of Champions League and World Cup winners as above rubbish tattoos.

But no, Italy, AC Milan, Fiorentina and a whole host of other top Italian sides, man Gilardino proves that idea wrong.

Even worse it is a tat of a children’s TV character.

Yes, you might have a daughter, and yes, Peppa Pig is brilliant, but this is not acceptable.

Pigging it (Image: Getty Images Europe)

15. Ricardo Quaresma

Everyone knows teardrop tattoos signify either the amount of people you have murdered or the loss of a family member, or friend.

Quaresma has two. We hope it is for the second reason.

Anyway, this brings us to rule three: no tattoos on the face.

A crying shame (Image: AFP)

16. Nile Ranger

And this is why we have rule three – there is no reason for them. They are painful and look stupid.

We called out D’Alessandro in No.2 for putting his own face on his body, writing your own name is 10 times worse.

To make things even worse “Ranger” looks like “Ranges”.

A complete faux of biblical proportions.

Nile Ranger posted this pic of his new tattoo on instagram
Name game (Image: nilepowerranger/instagram)

17. Dele Alli

What better way to celebrate your ascent into footballing greatness than with a tattoo?

Dele Alli obviously thinks so anyway, and he’s decided to mark his fine season for Tottenham and England – as well as a second successive PFA Young Player of the Year award – by getting inked.

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With what, you might ask? Maybe a lion to celebrate his status as one of England’s best young players? Or something marking one of his great goals for Spurs? Or a children’s cartoon character that you’d forgotten existed?

(Image: Twitter/SpursOfficial)

18. Leroy Sane

A tattoo of yourself is bad.

A huge tattoo of yourself on your back is worse.

But a huge tattoo of yourself on your back celebrating a goal (against Monaco) which ultimately proved pointless as Manchester City were knocked out of Europe?

That’s unforgivable.

View image on Twitter
 Surely this can’t be real? Leroy Sane has a tattoo of himself on his back..

19. Lionel Messi

You know that feeling you get when you look at Lionel Messi playing football?

That one where you are consumed with awe, adoration and respect?

Looking at Lionel Messi’s tattoos don’t give you that same feeling. In fact, the body art of the world’s greatest player is now more likely to make you cringe.

Check out his latest effort: a new tattoo of his wife’s lips… near his groin.

Loved up Leo (Image: CEN/Instagram/leomessi)

Messi has got his wife Antonella Rocuzzo’s lips tattooed on the lower part of his abs, just above his groin.

The forward reportedly got the new ink in the summer and it is said to symbolise how he will always have his wife’s kiss with him wherever he goes.

A lovely sentiment… which doesn’t change the fact that it’s largely awful.

20. Mauro Icardi

We thought we’d save the best until last.

Check out this full body lion from Argentinian international Icardi, which he had completed earlier this year.

The Inter Milan star already had his arms covered, but he’s upgraded with a giant lion, alongside the names of his two daughters.

When he revealed the finished product, he said that it took nearly half a year to complete.

And he hinted that it could yet get even more extravagant… but we’re really not sure how that is even possible!

(Image: Instagram/mauroicardi)

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Osun police arrest three night guards over alleged murder of 40-year-old man

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A night guard at Ibuowo Estate, Okinni, Egbedore Local Government Area of Osun State, on Saturday, allegedly shot dead a 40-year-old man, Badmus Mohammed.

The guard, Rasaq Moshood, DAILY POST gathered, shot Mohammed, a tenant, who is popularly called Lasgidi dead with his dane gun.

His Landlord, Kazeem Jimoh told DAILY POST that he was at a bar with the deceased till midnight on Friday, before he was called on phone about his death.

According to Kazeem, his tenant was killed at the front of the house, while his door was left open.

“I and Kazeem were at a bar till past 12 when I left him.

“I didn’t sleep at home but I got a call around 1 a.m. that Lasgidi was killed by a guard. When i got home, I saw his door open, while his corpse was outside,” he said.

The Police spokesperson, SP Yemisi Opalola confirmed the incident.

She noted that three night guards have been arrested with their dane guns.

According to her, “one Babatunde Olumide, the Chairman of Ibuowo Estate Okinni reported at dada Estate Divisional Police Hqts., that their night guard, one Moshood Rasaq used his dane gun to shoot one Mohammed Badmus, aged 40 years and he died instantly.

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“Suspect has been arrested, gun used has been recovered, while the corpse has been taken to UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital morgue for autopsy.”

Opalola added that the case had been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) for further investigation.

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Chinese astronauts return to earth after six months in space

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Officials stand near the capsule of the Shenzhou-13 spacecraft after it returned to earth carrying three Chinese astronauts in China’s Inner Mongolia on April 16, 2022. STR / AFP

Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after 183 days in space, ending China’s longest crewed mission as it continues its quest to become a major space power.

The Shenzhou-13 spacecraft was the latest mission in Beijing’s drive to rival the United States, after landing a rover on Mars and sending probes to the Moon.

Live footage from state broadcaster CCTV showed the capsule landing in a cloud of dust, with the ground crew who had kept clear of the landing site rushing in helicopters to reach the capsule.

The two men and one woman — Zhai Zhigang, Ye Guangfu and Wang Yaping — returned to Earth shortly before 10 am Beijing time (0200 GMT), after six months aboard the Tianhe core module of China’s Tiangong space station.

Ground crew applauded as the astronauts each took turns to report that they were in good physical condition.

Zhai was the first to emerge from the capsule roughly 45 minutes after the landing, waving and grinning at cameras as he was lifted by the ground crew into a specially designed chair before being bundled into a blanket.

“I’m proud of our heroic country,” Zhai said in an interview with CCTV shortly after leaving the capsule. “I feel extremely good.”

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The trio originally launched in the Shenzhou-13 from China’s northwestern Gobi Desert last October, as the second of four crewed missions during 2021-2022 sent to assemble the country’s first permanent space station — Tiangong, which means “heavenly palace.”

Wang became the first Chinese woman to spacewalk last November, as she and her colleague Zhai installed space station equipment during a six-hour stint.

Mission commander Zhai, 55, is a former fighter pilot who performed China’s first spacewalk in 2008, while Ye is a People’s Liberation Army pilot.

The trio have completed two spacewalks, carried out numerous scientific experiments, set up equipment and tested technologies for future construction during their time in orbit.

The astronauts spent the past few weeks tidying up and preparing the cabin facilities and equipment for the crew of the incoming Shenzhou-14, expected to be launched in the coming months.

China’s previous record spaceflight mission length was set by last year’s Shenzhou-12 deployment, which lasted 92 days.

Six months will become the normal astronaut residence period aboard the Chinese space station, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

Space race

The world’s second-largest economy has poured billions into its military-run space programme, with hopes of having a permanently crewed space station by 2022 and eventually sending humans to the Moon.

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The country has come a long way in catching up with the United States and Russia, whose astronauts and cosmonauts have decades of experience in space exploration.

But under Chinese President Xi Jinping, the country’s plans for its heavily-promoted “space dream” have been put into overdrive.

Besides a space station, Beijing is also planning to build a base on the Moon, and the country’s National Space Administration said it aims to launch a crewed lunar mission by 2029.

China has been excluded from the International Space Station since 2011 when the US banned NASA from engaging with the country.

While China does not plan to use its space station for global cooperation on the scale of the ISS, Beijing has said it is open to foreign collaboration although the scope of that cooperation is not yet clear.

The ISS is due for retirement after 2024, although NASA has said it could remain functional until 2030.

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Black smoke rises from a military airport in Chuguyev near Kharkiv on February 24, 2022.(Photo by Aris Messinis / AFP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a military operation in Ukraine on Thursday with explosions heard soon after across the country and its foreign minister warning a “full-scale invasion” was underway.

Weeks of intense diplomacy and the imposition of Western sanctions on Russia failed to deter Putin, who had massed between 150,000 and 200,000 troops along the borders of Ukraine.

“I have made the decision of a military operation,” Putin said in a surprise television announcement that triggered immediate condemnation from US President Joe Biden and sent global financial markets into turmoil.

Shortly after the announcement, explosions were heard in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and several other cities, according to AFP correspondents.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his address to the nation at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 21, 2022. Alexey NIKOLSKY / Sputnik / AFP

 

Putin called on Ukrainian soldiers to lay down their arms and justified the operation by claiming the government was overseeing a “genocide” in the east of the country.

The Kremlin had earlier said rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine had asked Moscow for military help against Kyiv.

The extent of Thursday’s attacks was not immediately clear, but Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the worst-case scenario was playing out.

“Putin has just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Peaceful Ukrainian cities are under strikes,” Kuleba tweeted.

“This is a war of aggression. Ukraine will defend itself and will win. The world can and must stop Putin. The time to act is now.”

Biden immediately warned of “consequences” for Russia and that there would be a “catastrophic loss of life and human suffering”.

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NATO’s chief condemned Russia’s “reckless and unprovoked attack” on Ukraine.

Putin’s move came after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky made an emotional appeal late on Wednesday night to Russians not to support a “major war in Europe”.

Speaking Russian, Zelensky said that the people of Russia were being lied to about Ukraine.

Zelensky said he had tried to call Putin but there was “no answer, only silence”, adding that Moscow now had around 200,000 soldiers near Ukraine’s borders.

Earlier on Wednesday the separatist leaders of Donetsk and Lugansk sent separate letters to Putin, asking him to “help them repel Ukraine’s aggression”, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

The two letters were published by Russian state media and were both dated February 22.

Their appeals came after Putin recognised their independence and signed friendship treaties with them that include defence deals.

– ‘Moment of peril’ –

Putin had for weeks defied a barrage of international criticism over the crisis, with some Western leaders saying he was no longer rational.

His announcement of the military operation came ahead of a last-ditch summit involving European Union leaders in Brussels planned for Thursday.

The 27-nation bloc had also imposed sanctions on Russia’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu and high-ranking figures including the commanders of Russia’s army, navy and air force, another part of the wave of Western punishment after Putin sought to rewrite Ukraine’s borders.

The United Nations Security Council met late Wednesday for its second emergency session in three days over the crisis, with a personal plea there by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to Putin going unheeded.

“President Putin, stop your troops from attacking Ukraine, give peace a chance, too many people have already died,” Guterres said.

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The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, warned that an all-out Russian invasion could displace five million people, triggering a new European refugee crisis.

Before Putin’s announcement, Ukraine had urged its approximately three million citizens living in Russia to leave.

“We are united in believing that the future of European security is being decided right now, here in our home, in Ukraine,” President Zelensky said during a joint media appearance with the visiting leaders of Poland and Lithuania.

Western capitals said Russia had amassed 150,000 troops in combat formations on Ukraine’s borders with Russia, Belarus and Russian-occupied Crimea and on warships in the Black Sea.

Ukraine has around 200,000 military personnel, and could call up to 250,000 reservists.

Moscow’s total forces are much larger — around a million active-duty personnel — and have been modernised and re-armed in recent years.

 

– High cost of war –

But Ukraine has received advanced anti-tank weapons and some drones from NATO members. More have been promised as the allies try to deter a Russian attack or at least make it costly.

Shelling had intensified in recent days between Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed separatists — a Ukrainian soldier was killed on Wednesday, the sixth in four days — and civilians living near the front were fearful.

Dmitry Maksimenko, a 27-year-old coal miner from government-held Krasnogorivka, told AFP that he was shocked when his wife came to tell him that Putin had recognised the two Russian-backed separatist enclaves.

“She said: ‘Have you heard the news?’. How could I have known? There’s no electricity, never mind internet. I don’t know what is going to happen next, but to be honest, I’m afraid,” he said.

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In a Russian village around 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the border, AFP reporters saw military equipment including rocket launchers, howitzers and fuel tanks mounted on trains stretching for hundreds of metres.

Russia has long demanded that Ukraine be forbidden from ever joining the NATO alliance and that US troops pull out from Eastern Europe.

Speaking to journalists, Putin on Tuesday set out a number of stringent conditions if the West wanted to de-escalate the crisis, saying Ukraine should drop its NATO ambition and become neutral.

Washington Wednesday announced sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which Germany had earlier effectively suspended by halting certification.

Australia, Britain, Japan and the European Union have all also announced sanctions.

 

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