Chinese footballers will need to undergo the painful process of having tattoos removed or risk being snubbed by the national team following a new order banning the body work.

The General Administration of Sport (GAS) have gone a step further than they did in 2018 when players were forced to cover up tattoos to continue playing.

In their latest move GAS have outlawed tattoos altogether and want any player with pre-existing tattoos to get them removed in order to 'set a good example' for Chinese society.

'The national team and the U23 national team athletes are strictly prohibited from having new tattoos, and those who already have tattoos are advised to remove them themselves,' the GAS statement said.

'If there are special circumstances agreed by the team, (players) must cover up the tattoos during training and matches.'

China has previous in wading into the appearance of its players with a women's football match in 2018 called off after players were told they were prohibited from playing with dyed hair.

China's General Administration of Sport has put a ban on footballers getting new tattoos

The GAS have also called on existing inks to be removed as part of a new clean-up directive

'Athletes are not allowed to dye their hair, grow long hair [for boys], wear weird hairstyles, or wear any accessories,' rules of the Fujian Provincial Department of Education, reported by the South China Morning Post (SCMP), stated at the time.

'Otherwise, they will be disqualified from the competition.'

Tattoos have been treated with disdain in China but their popularity has increased among young adults, and many footballers.

Zhang Linpeng of Guangzhou FC is one such player known throughout Chinese football for his extensive ink.

But new rules look set to prove problematic for younger players with any fresh tattoos likely to result in expulsion from the national team.

Tattoos have become more mainstream in China but the new rules present problems to many, such as Zhang Linpeng of Guangzhou FC

Tattoos are a bone of contention in Chinese society

Inked designs will need to be removed unless a player can show special circumstances

Players in the national team have previously been seen playing with tape covering any visible tattoo areas.

The GAS went on to add that China's national teams, throughout age groups, should organise 'ideological and political education activities' that would 'strengthen the patriotic education' of its players.

The statement is headed 'Suggestions for strengthening the management of football players'.

It is anticipated that the Chinese FA will be charged with setting out disciplinary requirements for future national team call-ups.

Dailymail UK

This is senseless.


Does it disrupt anything or affect quality of play?


What happens to the tattoed?


Or they want to control every part of people's lives?

Doings

Depay, ramos, zlatan, naingoland n messi leaves d group chat...
Happy new year in advance nairalanders

Sandle:
Funny

funny? its a bit weird....if na Africa it wont b funny o...dm go use am curse us tire

Dem still better pass one African country

If not for China's technological knowledge/advancement, China would've been the worst country on earth.


That was how the banned some social medias in their country. They banned Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, yahoo etc.

They developed WeChat to replace WhatsApp, developed Sina Weibo to replaced Twitter, they developed Douyin and kuaishiu to replaced Instagram and lots more

They hate using what other people developed or created but they want the whole world to be using what they're creating.

This same china has caused the world so much pains with all the nonsense they do kill and eat..till date the world is still battling with COVID 19. Instead of them to ban all the nonsense they eat, they think tattoo is their greatest problem.

And to think this is a country one skinny skeletal idiot runs to every second to borrow a huge some of money is so worrisome and sad.

In that case they should leave football abeg, no be by force...

Make them continue with their Kung Fu Champions League



Well China over North Korea Sha

This is a three days news ago. Weird country

Damnnn niggar
China be forming holier than thou

paulolee:
neyma, ramos, zlatan n messi leaves d group chat

This order is for national team

I don't like tattoos

I can't pay money to be put through suffering and permanently marked

But still people should be allowed some level of freedom especially when their actions do not hurt others and when it has to do with their bodies and their private lives.

Already law, government,religion, society as a whole already dictates and interferes with everything we do from birth to death, how we are born, how we are buried, how we eat, how and when we sleep, how we marry and who we marry, how we are educated and how long we are educated, what we wear and so on

So the little one our own flesh again we cannot decide what to do with it a decision as minute as insignificant as whether or not we want to draw on our own bodies na wa oh

Why

China is not helping their people grow, with all this law, china has banned a lot of things like:
Gay marriage, dressing like gay in comedy skit, mocking the president, Islam, online tutor, celebrity worship, tattoo, Bitcoin, online gaming and internet addiction, religion, abandoning your aging parents,guns. Etc

When you overprotect children they either rebel or they become soft. They cannot function outside their society.
Just look at American women, she how easy it is to lure them with promise of love, théy lost their cynicism and ability to decern evil from good.

Nice moral

HonNL:


China's General Administration of Sport has put a ban on footballers getting new tattoos

The GAS have also called on existing inks to be removed as part of a new clean-up directive


Tattoos have become more mainstream in China but the new rules present problems to many, such as Zhang Linpeng of Guangzhou FC

Tattoos are a bone of contention in Chinese society

Inked designs will need to be removed unless a player can show special circumstances


Dailymail UK

China is too fixated on perfection and it the sole reason it will always stay one step behind the western powers and there propaganda media

China is the twin sister of North Korea

It's their country, their rules and their values. Leave it for them. At least their country have brains and is working and progressing.

Hope niangollan no dey dat league sha

Am surprise it coming from a country that most of them serve idols even the so called Christian county carry dye for head and tattoos

This is a very good precedence and I believe Nigeria should follow suit and enact laws that will forbid public figures from displaying certain forms of characters, attitudes and modes of life. For example I was very disappointed by the billboards that had Ebuka of big brother with his tattoos on full display. Every child who sees it will aspire to also do the same which is wrong. If you want a tattoo get it for yourself, don't display it for us to copy.

Nigeria go soon borrow this one too just watch out

nawa

K

Good step.
Some of those players in the pictures have excessive tattoo.