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•The China Sports Administration statement, dated Tuesday, said that players in the national team “are strictly prohibited from having new tattoos”.
•“Those who have tattoos are advised to have them removed,” the statement continued. “In special circumstances, the tattoos must be covered during training and competition, with the consent of the rest of the team.”
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Footballers playing in China’s national team should remove any existing tattoos and are “strictly prohibited” from getting any new ones, the country’s sports administration body has said.
The sport has found itself in the crosshairs of the Communist Party’s purity drive in recent years, and players on the national football team routinely cover their arms with long sleeves or bandages to hide their tattoos.
But the China Sports Administration statement, dated Tuesday, said that players in the national team “are strictly prohibited from having new tattoos”.
“Those who have tattoos are advised to have them removed,” the statement continued. “In special circumstances, the tattoos must be covered during training and competition, with the consent of the rest of the team.”
It went on to say that the under-20 national teams and those even younger were “strictly prohibited” from recruiting anyone with tattoos.
But not all fans appeared to be behind the new rules.
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“Are we choosing a good football player or a saint?” asked one angry fan on the social media platform Weibo.
“Shall we just say outright that only the Party members could play football?” asked another.
Body ink is traditionally frowned upon in China but it is increasingly popular among young adults, even as authorities make plain their disdain for it.
The Chinese Football Association has ordered players in the national team to cover tattoos in recent years and packed young footballers off to military camps for drills and Marxist-style “thought education”.
That has prompted complaints from fans that it is thinking more about politics than sport.
Last year, a women’s university football match was eventually called off after players were told they were not allowed to have dyed hair.
The government wants China to host and even win the World Cup one day.
But they are fifth of six teams in their qualifying group for next year’s World Cup, with only the top two guaranteed to qualify.
This year, Beijing has also pushed through a series of restrictions on youth culture, including sweeping measures to ban “abnormal aesthetics” and crack down on the perceived excesses of modern entertainment.
It has made an example out of movie stars that allegedly stepped out of line, banned reality talent shows and ordered broadcasters to stop featuring “sissy” men and “vulgar influencers”.
As tensions have mounted with the West, China has also pushed a nationalist and militaristic narrative at home, including a vision of tough masculinity.
booooo
I'm a very firm China Good guy but there are so many weird, old-fashioned ideas that get officially enforced
edit: Although what is the source for this? The linked article in the blog post is about how the lockdown in Xi'an works.
Most of the peoples in the party are old timer, what do you expect, east asia boomer pretty disdain with tattoo. I think korea and japan still have stigma with them through Yakuza and gang shite.
https://www.sport.gov.cn/n315/n10702/c23875604/content.html
Straight from their announcement, probably tired of being a punching bag and go straight to reactionary mode for these old timers.
Huh, really? It comes through fine for me. Here's the source:
Remove your tattoos, Beijing tells Chinese football players ExpatHub 2021-12-30 13:38 Image Click Expat Hub to Follow Us ↑
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•The China Sports Administration statement, dated Tuesday, said that players in the national team "are strictly prohibited from having new tattoos".
•"Those who have tattoos are advised to have them removed," the statement continued. "In special circumstances, the tattoos must be covered during training and competition, with the consent of the rest of the team."
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Footballers playing in China's national team should remove any existing tattoos and are "strictly prohibited" from getting any new ones, the country's sports administration body has said.
The sport has found itself in the crosshairs of the Communist Party's purity drive in recent years, and players on the national football team routinely cover their arms with long sleeves or bandages to hide their tattoos.
But the China Sports Administration statement, dated Tuesday, said that players in the national team "are strictly prohibited from having new tattoos".
"Those who have tattoos are advised to have them removed," the statement continued. "In special circumstances, the tattoos must be covered during training and competition, with the consent of the rest of the team."
It went on to say that the under-20 national teams and those even younger were "strictly prohibited" from recruiting anyone with tattoos.
But not all fans appeared to be behind the new rules.
Image
"Are we choosing a good football player or a saint?" asked one angry fan on the social media platform Weibo.
"Shall we just say outright that only the Party members could play football?" asked another.
Body ink is traditionally frowned upon in China but it is increasingly popular among young adults, even as authorities make plain their disdain for it.
The Chinese Football Association has ordered players in the national team to cover tattoos in recent years and packed young footballers off to military camps for drills and Marxist-style "thought education".
That has prompted complaints from fans that it is thinking more about politics than sport.
Last year, a women's university football match was eventually called off after players were told they were not allowed to have dyed hair.
The government wants China to host and even win the World Cup one day.
But they are fifth of six teams in their qualifying group for next year's World Cup, with only the top two guaranteed to qualify.
This year, Beijing has also pushed through a series of restrictions on youth culture, including sweeping measures to ban "abnormal aesthetics" and crack down on the perceived excesses of modern entertainment.
It has made an example out of movie stars that allegedly stepped out of line, banned reality talent shows and ordered broadcasters to stop featuring "sissy" men and "vulgar influencers".
As tensions have mounted with the West, China has also pushed a nationalist and militaristic narrative at home, including a vision of tough masculinity.
No, I mean the blog post you are linking to cites a totally unrelated article from SCMP.
CFA is wank, instead of improving the team and grassroot, they focus on this shite. No wonder China national team a walking meme now, worst than decade ago when they able to get into the WC.
Reminds me of how the us govt is constantly complaining they can't find cyber security workers but won't relax their strict drug testing so all the good yet casual pot smoking hackers can't get employed by them. Old fuddy duddies in govt gotta learn how to pick their battles if they actually want the best but 🤷♀️ this ain't my battle in any way since I'm not a Chinese citizen
Reminds me of high school with all these foolish rules. No tatoos (okay that actually made sense In a high school context, unlike this), no long hair for boys, must be clean shaven at all times, girls hair must be tied up if long and no artificial colours or dye, only "normal" haircuts allowed, must wear uniform, etc.
I ended up getting an undercut and growing out my beard, and then just growing out all my hair from there straight out of school lmao.
Social conservatism is everywhere and not good.
bourgeois decadence
This is a stupid concept. The Proletariat are allowed to have nice things and to do things they think are cool, the only "bourgeois decadence" is ridiculous displays of wealth which a tattoo definitely is not.
10k worth of sleeves on a career dishwasher is something that can only exist in capitalism. a spring break tattoo of a yin yang is something that can only exist in capitalism.
This is where you go completely off the rails. People in cultures all around the world have been tattooing themselves for various reasons since long, long before capitalism, buddy.
I also think you're applying "expression of wealth" far too broadly. Should I avoid wearing new clothes because that's a conspicuous expression of my wealth? Socialism requires you to subordinate yourself to a societal project, it does not require you to conduct yourself while wearing only a barrel and suspenders.
"Doing anything to your body is bourgeois decadence actually. Cutting your hair at a barber shop? Bourgeois decadence. Getting a piercing? Bourgeois decadence. Any form of jewelry? Bourgeois decadence. Clothes that fit well? Bourgeois decadence. Nice shoes? Bourgeois decadence."
I want to see more Stalinism out of China :stalin-feels-good:
Stalinism except more gay
I don't see anything wrong with this, let them decide their own path forward. It seems like just another pointless fight about aesthetics like soviet realism vs cia individualist art.
It's also kinda funny how some things are associated with counter culture/working class in the west but seen as reactionary in china, like how hip hop is considered bougie because it's popular among rich foreign educated youth
no you don't understand true proletarians aren't allowed to express their individuality because that's capitalist excess.
"Limiting what people do to their own bodies, even if harmless, is good actually"
Come on
