TRANSFORMATION OF TATTOO ART: Is Tattoo Really Dangerous For A Football Player?

It is undeniable that there are many soccer players who have tattooed either on their whole body or part, but is that dangerous?

Starting from Lionel Messi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Roberto Firmino, Sergio Ramos, to Dele Alli are examples of soccer players who are fond of and have tattoos. But apparently according to physiologists, tattoos can actually prevent the work of the sweat glands.

Maurie Luetkeimer, a professor of physiology and health science at Alma College in Michigan, tries to find out the truth of the dangers of tattoos by trying them on 10 young men who have tattoos on some parts of their bodies and not on the other.

The researchers, led by Maurie Luetkeimer, immediately began the experiment, the result of which is sweat that comes out of the tattooed skin containing the compound sodium, nearly doubling from the clean side.

In other words, for Murie Luetkeimer, tattoos are not really dangerous for a soccer player because they only slightly inhibit the sweat path. But according to Dr. Ingo Frobose from Cologne, Germany, has strictly banned tattoos in soccer in 2017.

"Various studies have shown that players have decreased performance of three to five percent after having a tattoo. The skin is the largest organ we have, but we poison it, "said Frobose, as quoted by FourFourTwo.

Furthermore, Frobose highlights that there are about 60 percent to 70 percent of the tattoo ink does not survive in the skin, but rather enter the bloodstream. As a result, recovery from a tattooed soccer player will not be maximal because his body is no longer fresh.

In the end, among the researchers, there was still a pretty fierce difference about the dangers of tattoos for a soccer player. So maybe as long as the player is still playing extraordinary even though tattooed like Lionel Messi, it seems no one is making an issue either, right?