In the world of professional sports, tattoos have long ceased to be just decoration – they have become part of a personal story, a symbol of belonging, or even a political gesture. And it is in this vein that the act of Sydney, a defender for Kyiv’s Levoberezhnyi, takes on a special depth. The Brazilian footballer, who recently joined the club that has just made it into the Ukrainian Premier League, got a new tattoo – and chose not Portuguese or English for it, but Ukrainian.