Carlos Tevez's Nike Legends match worn boots. Tevez wore this special made to
measure boots during the Season 2009 with Manchester City. Both boots are
personalized with "CARLITOS 32". Tévez was born Carlos Alberto Martínez in
Ciudadela, Buenos Aires, and raised in the neighbourhood of Ejército de Los
Andes, better known as "Fuerte Apache". It was from there that he got the
nickname of "El Apache". His parents changed his surname to his mother's during
a conflict between his junior club All Boys and Boca Juniors. Tévez has a
distinctive burn scar that runs down his neck from his right ear to his chest. He
was accidentally scalded with boiling water as a child, which caused third-degree
burns and kept him hospitalised in intensive care for nearly two months. After
joining Boca Juniors, Tévez refused an offer from the club to have them
cosmetically improved, saying that the scars were a part of who he was in the
past and who he is today.