Flamengo Fan Had His Whole Torso Tattooed With Club Shirt

How much do you love your football club? If the answer is 'not enough to get your whole body tattooed with the club's shirt,' then you don't love them as much as Mauricio dos Anjos.

Many football fans have been inked with their club colours, or had a crest tattooed on their body, or some other signifier of the team they will love forever.

However, most don't go as far as Brazilian Dos Anjos, who really went the whole hog for Flamengo back in 2018, when he got their shirt tattooed on his body.

The 35-year-old went all in with his body art by getting the whole shirt on his whole body, presumably getting rid of the need to wear a top whenever he visits the Maracana.

As per Vice the body art took a whole year, taking up 32 sessions which resulted in 90 hours of him being tattooed. That sounds like a lot of pain to end up looking like a £40 tshirt.

Dos Anjos explained why he decided to get the elaborate work, saying, "I always wanted to have a Flamengo tattoo, ever since I became a fan as a child.

"I got a vulture [the team mascot] with the Flamengo shield on my biceps. Last year, I decided to get a tattoo of the jersey, which is something I'd actually been wanting to get for a while.

"But I thought it would be too expensive - between R$10,000 (£2,000) and R$15,000 (£3,000). So I chose to get something smaller, that covered only part of my shoulder and chest.

"The tattoo artist asked for R$800 (£165), but as we chatted he told me he'd do the entire jersey at no extra cost, just for the exposure."

Apparently getting paid just in exposure is enough for some people after all...

Asked if he had any regrets over the tattoo, Dos Anjos perhaps unsurprisingly said, "Trust me, I never felt any regret," you've got to respect his dedication.

Perhaps the artwork has come as somewhat of a lucky charm for the Rio de Janeiro club, they hadn't won the Copa Libertadores since 1981 but did win it again in 2019.

The team reached the final last year too and were only beaten by Palmeiras, who captured their second title in-a-row.

Maybe more of us should be getting our club shirts tattooed to our bodies...