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Matthew Dimbylow
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Matthew Dimbylow (born 12 December 1970) is an English footballer who plays in defence for the England Cerebral Palsy National Team and the Great Britain Paralympic Football team. On his debut for England he was made captain. Career Dimbylow played semi-professional football in the 1990s for English Universities, Kidderminster Harriers and Bromsgrove football teams before developing Parkinson's disease at the age of 36 after brain trauma from a clash of heads during a football match. He was honoured to represent the Great Britain at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympics, as part of the seven-a-side team for athletes with cerebral palsy, or acquired brain trauma. He was also part of the British team that won medals at successive Paralympic World Cups - bronze in 2010 and silver in 2012. As part of this, he will be looking to identify possible Paralympians of the future, and to provide them with the equipment to enable them to become future Paralympians. He has been joined as an ambassador by Lee Pearson, the nine-times Paralympic gold medallist and the actress Elizabeth Hurley. He will shortly be launching a campaign to help the Paralympians raise vital funding for 2012 - Be Kind To. He hope that the nation will get behind the project and support him and the other athletes as they strive to compete at Sochi 2012. Dimbylow charity Dream It Believe It Achieve was investigated by the Charity Commission in 2017 off the back of an The Mirror article published February 2014. 
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