Breaking news: Flamengo fan has whole club shirt tattooed onto his body

 

There are many ways to show just 

how much you love your football club. 

The easiest is to wear a football shirt

, one of the hardest ways is probably 

by having said shirt tattooed to your

 skin as one Flamengo fan did.

Plenty of us have some form of 

merchandise from the football team we 

support, whether it's a shirt, a scarf or 

a fridge magnet. Some people go 

further and get a tattoo of their club crest

, some even name a child after a 

player or several players but Maurício 

dos Anjos' tattoo goes beyond even

 naming your child 'Crystal Palace Smith.'

The 33 year old Brazilian decided that

 for the love of his football Flamengo

, he would get the design of their 2015

 shirt tattooed to his body, only the 

shirt sponsors are missing from the artwork.

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 told Vice exactly why he 

decided to get the elaborate 'tat' 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."

Unsurprisingly the interviewer asked 

if Mauricio had regretted getting inked

 at any part of the process but he 

said, 'Trust me, I never felt any regret

,' you've got to love the craziness of 

football fandom in Brazil.

The Flamengo fan is married with 

three children and even had another 

tattoo relating to his eldest daughter 

inked over for the club shirt, "I have 

one [tattoo] for my eldest daughter -

 her footprint, with her name and date

 of birth. It was on my back, but the 

jersey tattoo covered it, so I'll redo

 that one somewhere else.

He revealed he still wears a flamengo

 shirt twice a week, hopefully not the 

2015 one, but walks around the house

 topless, obviously. At least he won't 

be getting the shorts or socks inked 

on though, "I may get another tattoo 

related to Flamengo, perhaps on my 

leg or my arm. But I'm not going to 

get anything as big as this."

So you love your football club? But 

do you love it that much?!