Lionel Messi gave his tattoo artist a tattoo

Lionel Messi is a fan of body ink, with a massive tattoo on his shin, and some newer skin art on his arm, but he recently decided to jump to the other side of the needle when a tattoo artist asked the Barcelona star to ink his jersey number onto his wrist.

Lionel Messi is a fan of body ink, with a massive tattoo on his shin, and some newer skin art on his arm, but he recently jumped to the other side of the needle when a tattoo artist asked the Barcelona star to ink his jersey number onto his wrist.

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Messi's new tattoo sleeve was done by Roberto Lopez, and when he was finished he asked the striker to return the favor by putting "10" upon his wrist.

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The new tattoo is not Lopez's first from an Argentine striker, as he also had Boca Juniors star Martin Palermo make his mark on his left wrist.

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