Silvio Velo

Velo was born in San Pedro, Buenos Aires Province, he was born blind but was passionate to play football despite his visual impairment. While growing up, he and his brothers would play football with their friends in their own makeshift football pitch in their neighbourhood.

He began playing blind football when he was introducted to sport at a boarding school for the blind, he also practiced athletics and he was a former national visually impaired long jump champion. His sports teacher created the first ever blind Argentine football team in 1991 when Velo was twenty years old.^[3]

He has competed at the 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Paralympics. He is also a silver medalist in the Parapan American Games winning silver to four-time Paralympic and two-time Parapan American Games champions Brazil.^[4]