The Brazilian winger is a fan of the NBA and that’s why he decided to pay homage to MJ, but something went wrong.
Vinicius Junior is one of the best players in the world. In fact, many consider him the best in his position. Since his arrival at Real Madrid from Flamengo in 2018, he has gradually become a key player for the team and with Carlo Ancelotti as coach has shown his best version, being key in the Champions League 2021/22 title.
However, this season has not been good for him. ‘Vini’ started La Liga 2023/24 with the responsibility of leading the team after the surprise departure of Karim Benzema to Al-Ittihad of Saudi Arabia, but in August he suffered a muscle injury that left him off the field for a month. And in November the same thing happened to him while he was playing for Brazil against Colombia in the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup.
For that reason he has spent more time off the field than available to play. He is now in the final stages of his recovery and is expected to be able to play in the Spanish Super Cup between January 10-14 in Saudi Arabia. In fact, this week he started training with his teammates and his physical condition is improving day by day.
But now the Brazilian winger has made headlines for a reason that has nothing to do with soccer. He is a sports fan and that’s why he decided to get a huge tattoo on his back portraying several legendary athletes: Brazilian soccer player Pelé, boxer Muhammad Ali and two former NBA stars: Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan. However, one detail of MJ caught everyone’s attention and caused mockery on social media.
What happened?
The famous Spanish tattoo artist Ganga shared on his official Instagram account a video of Vinicius‘ back with his new tattoos. There you can see Michael Jordan with his legendary Chicago Bulls jersey 23, but something is not right: he is throwing the ball with his left hand, when in reality he was throwing with his right.
A bizarre step from the youngster
Real Madrid returned to training this Friday at Valdebebas with good news, which was the presence of Camavinga, Carvajal and Vinicius in the team session. The Brazilian, like the Frenchman and the Spaniard, is already thinking about his return to Carlo Ancelotti‘s team, which is likely to come in the Supercopa de Espana, although it is not ruled out that he could enter the call-up for the first match of the year against Mallorca.
Vini, who has taken advantage of his vacation to visit the United States and enjoy the NBA, also got a striking tattoo on his back that has caused a stir.
Ganga, the Murcian artist, who has tattooed LeBron James, Alcaraz and Drake, among other international stars, has already left his stamp on Vini, who wanted to ink his back with sports legends such as Kobe Bryant, Pele, Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali. In addition to these spectacular images, the word ‘Mentality’ or the symbolic ‘Black lives matter’ are written on the back.
Ganga himself is the one who showed the result on social media and he did it with this message: “It’s been great to finish 2023 with this amazing tattoo on the full back done in 8 hours for my brother Vinicius, always with my team.”
The two questions left by Vini’s tattoo
The tattoo raises two questions to users on social media. The first, who is the man who appears at the top left smiling with sunglasses and, the second, why Michael Jordan is throwing left-handed when he was right-handed.
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