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Published 16:18 15 Apr 2015 BST
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The Atletico Madrid striker's back tattoo was revealed to the world during his side's Champions League clash against Real Madrid on Tuesday night.
Mandzukic Hebrew tattoo saying "what don't kill me, strengthens me" going absolutely viral pic.twitter.com/da9AU2DdSg
— Joshua Halickman (@thesportsrabbi) April 14, 2015
The Hebrew script immediately sparked intrigue on social media over what it actually meant. It has since been translated and, Mandzukic might not like to hear what the text he has gotten permanently scarred onto his back actually means.
Stuart Winer of The Times of Israel translated the text.
"The text was written from left to right instead of from right to left. In addition, the letters themselves were facing the wrong way, giving the slogan the appearance of being in mirror writing, and suggesting that the tattoo artist was either an aspiring Leonardo da Vinci, who wrote mainly in mirror-image cursive, or hopelessly incompetent.
Once the bizarre lettering had been sorted out, it emerged that the tattoo aimed to proclaim "What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger," although spelling errors rendered the actual translation closer to the grammatically awkward "Which doesn’t to kill me, makes me stronger."
Hat-tip to Bleacher Report

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