Carlos Tevez's Nike match worn boots. Tevez wore this special
made to measure boots during the Season 2010 and FIFA World
Cup. Both boots are personalized with "FLOR 11", "KATIE 11" and
a flag of Argentina. 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.