Did Christian Pulisic get tiger tattoo with goal celebration in mind? USMNT & AC Milan star explains iconic inking on left arm

USMNT star Christian Pulisic says goal celebrations were not in his thoughts when getting a tiger tattoo on his left arm that has become iconic.

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• American got tattoo while in his teens
• Uses it in celebration routines
• Hoping to have many more goals to savour

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  WHAT HAPPENED?

  The 25-year-old forward boasts plenty of body art, with the most famous of those inked into his skin when “18 or 19” years of age. Pulisic was on the books of Bundesliga side Borussia Dortmund back then, as his stock began to soar.

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  THE BIGGER PICTURE

  He has gone on to represent Chelsea and AC Milan, becoming a record-setting Champions League winner during his time at Stamford Bridge. Pulisic has also earned 71 caps for the United States, with the captain’s armband being filled at times.

• DID YOU KNOW?

  Pulisic has scored 30 goals for his country and 60 at club level – with a personal-best return of 15 efforts recorded for Milan last season. Plenty of those strikes have seen him break out a celebration that now features in gaming franchises such as EA FC.

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• WHAT PULISIC SAID

  Jimmy Fallon has asked Pulisic about his tattoo on , with the Pennsylvania native saying when quizzed on whether he had a celebration in mind when opting for a tiger design: “Not exactly for that purpose! I don’t know what I was thinking. That wasn’t the plan. It wasn’t a celebration. But when we were doing it, the tattoo artist was saying, ‘Hold it up like this. I want to make sure that if you ever want to do this, that it’ll line up perfectly with your eyes’.”