Like many athletes, Thomas Partey has given way to tattooing fashion. During his presentation at Arsenal, the 27-year-old Ghana international revealed that he has two on his right arm, which are very important to him. The first represents an octopus, the animal to which he is compared since a loan to Almeria, in 2014-2015, where he had impressed his teammates and his opponents by his slaughter in the midfield.
“I always said that if I were an animal, I would be an octopus. I remember when I was in Almeria, they called me ‘The Octopus’ (” the octopus “) because I collected lots of balloons, ”he revealed. Her second tattoo is a bit more amazing since it is her own face that Partey decided to get tattooed. Proof of egocentrism? The former Atlético player, who arrived at the Gunners at the beginning of the month for a check for 50 million euros, would he be so narcissistic?
A tattoo linked to his beliefs
It is actually a choice dictated by the importance he attaches to religion, he who is Christian. This tattoo helps him to remember his goals and to believe in his own destiny. “I believe that everyone on earth is a god. I think that if I am a god for myself, it is important that I choose all my decisions, to make everything work in my path,” he explained in words reported by The Guardian, without specifying since when he has had this tattoo.
He is not the first to have his own face tattooed on his body. Leroy Sané has even gone even further since his back is covered with a drawing showing him … celebrating a goal. A tattoo done in 2017 that had earned him serious rooming from Raheem Sterling, his former Skyblues teammate: “What a shit tattoo. My name is Leroy Sané and I love myself.”
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