According to the Tasnim news agency, the Chinese Ministry of Sports issued a statement saying that players who have tattoos on their limbs will not be allowed to participate in the national team camps.
The Chinese Ministry of Sports said in a statement: “National team players are a role model for young people and future generations.” Accordingly, nationalists do not have the right to insert new tattoos and must also cover previous tattoos.
In another part of this instruction, which is published in order to model Chinese athletes, it is stated; Tattooed players will not be invited to the youth soccer team and they will have to remove their own tattoos; Because we have a duty to care for future generations.
The performance of the Chinese national team in the qualifying round of the 2022 World Cup has been criticized by the country’s football fans, and many Chinese users have criticized the players ‘attention to the margins, especially the Chinese players’ tattoos. A Chinese user wrote: “Our nationals are not responsible and are not doing their job.” They just always look for the margins and therefore do useless things like tattooing to get attention.