XtraTime Web Desk: FIFA World Cup is not just about football, it explores some amazing stories as well. Raheem Sterling’s latest ‘Gun’ tattoo is the latest example of that.
England footballer Raheem Sterling has defended his new tattoo of a gun, saying it has a “deeper meaning” and refers to his late father.
Anti-gun campaigners criticised the Manchester City forward after he shared a photo of himself with the tattoo of an M16 assault rifle on his leg.
The image has been called “totally unacceptable” and “sickening”.
But Sterling said it reflects a vow he made to “never touch a gun” after his father was shot dead when he was a boy.
According to previous reports, Sterling’s father was killed in Kingston, Jamaica.
Sterling, 23, who will travel to Russia this summer as part of England’s World Cup squad, first revealed his tattoo in a photo posted to Instagram of himself in training with team-mates at St George’s Park.