Vinicius Jr travels 6000 miles for eight-hour tattoo but fans notice glaring error in Michael Jordan tribute
Real Madrid megastar Vinicius Jr travelled 6000 miles and spent eight hours with a world-renowned tattoo artist, only to be shown a glaring error.
The Brazilian forward and 2022 Champions League final winner has been using a two-week pause in the Spanish footballing calendar to travel stateside.
Outside of football, Vinicius adores basketball, and got to meet and spend time with living NBA legends LeBron James and Giannis Antetokounmpo.
In honour of his second favourite sport, the 23-year-old then hit LA to visit world-famous tattoo artist Ganga, getting a stunning back tattoo with a number of basketball legends across it.
Ganga has previously worked on celebrities as big as Carlos Alcaraz, Jake Paul and LeBron himself, so Vini was in good hands.
An eight-hour session saw the Brazilian get his no.7 on his back, along with Pele, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and Muhammad Ali.
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He also had the words ‘Mentality’ and ‘Black Lives Matter’ adorned, but it was with Jordan where the error came from.
Widely considered as the greatest basketball player of all time, Chicago Bulls legend Jordan is pictured lining up a shot, but there was an awkward mistake.
The picture shows the legendary no.23 shooting a freethrow with his left hand, something he’d never do as a right-hander.
Once that was noticed on Twitter, a number of fans were keen to point out the error, even though Jordan did once shoot left-handed in a show-boating display against the Atlanta Hawks.
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More often, though, Jordan showed off by shooting with his eyes closed, suggesting that it may have just been a mirror-effect error in the tattoo, or that Vinicius is a far bigger basketball nerd than anyone realised.