Features News Headlines | Features News -...: Tattoos now taboo at infection-wary Werder Bremen

Features News Headlines | Features News - Yahoo! News India Check out the latest Features news headlines from Yahoo! News India. Find top Features stories and in-depth coverage of Features news from India and around the world. Tattoos now taboo at infection-wary Werder Bremen 14 Jul 2011, 2:35 pm BERLIN (Reuters) - German club Werder Bremen have become so needled at the prospect of one of their players missing matches because of an infection caused by a tattoo they have chosen to ban them. Werder's decision to scratch their players from getting anymore tattoos is a result of the infection that forced Hamburg SV's Eljero Elia into a lengthy and painful injury break in March 2010. "It is a risk that we need to rule out," the German club's sports director Klaus Allofs told the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper. Several Werder players are fans of tattoos with Austrian Marko Arnautovic sporting several. (Writing by Karolos Grohmann, editing by Patrick Johnston; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com) You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.