Former Leeds United defender Dominic Matteo will be featured in tonight’s episode of Long Lost Family on ITV1 at 9pm.
The popular ITV series embarks on helping people find their missing family members and tonight’s show will follow Matteo’s incredible story as he searches for his birth mother.
Given away for adoption when he was born in Dumfries, Scotland in 1974, Matteo moved south where he became a professional footballer playing at the highest level for Liverpool, Leeds and the Scotland national team.
Arguably his most memorable days were at Elland Road where he become a cult figure after his vital goal against AC Milan at the San Siro helped Leeds in their run to the Champions League semi-final in 2001.
The goal is still regularly sung about by Leeds fans 20 years on and after being diagnosed with a brain tumor last year, Matteo received huge support not just from Leeds United, but the whole football family.
The ex-Whites defender thankfully made a full recovery but while going through the life-changing experience, Matteo set about finding out who his birth mother was after deciding it was a question he needed answering.
Tonight’s show will follow Dom’s journey from the very start in pursuit of finding out who is birth mother is in what will be a very emotional story about one of the sport’s true gents.
Make sure to watch the episode tonight at 9pm on ITV1, the show will also be available to watch afterwards on the ITV Hub.
