It is not a good time to be a footballer in China. The Ministry of Sports has banned all members of the national team from getting tattoos. Worse, those who have already been under the needle are being asked to take the necessary steps to have them removed. In the meantime, and depending on the circumstances, for example during training sessions and competitions, footballers will have to cover up these unwanted marks. Obviously, it is then impossible for any inked player to hope to enter the national team of his own country. Xi Jinping's Chinese regime now sees tattoos as a threat to the moral order of its population. Worried about being exposed to decadence from abroad, this ban on tattoos is also accompanied by a tightening of the screws on video games, television programmes, etc. Pragmatically, the communist government is also very happy with the income generated by the sale of needles and tattoo machines manufactured on its territory... to these same foreign countries.
