Mauricio Ricardo Taricco is an Argentine former professional footballer and current assistant manager at Premier League side Sunderland. As a player he was a defender who initially played from 1993 to 2004. He began his career in his native Argentina for Argentinos Juniors before transferring to England where he spent the next 10 years representing Ipswich Town, Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United. He suffered a hamstring injury on his debut for West Ham and agreed to tear up his contract after the game, after initially retiring following the injury he came out of retirement a year later playing for lower league Italian side A.S. Villasimius before later joining Brighton & Hove Albion as player/assistant manager to Gus Poyet in 2010. He retired for the second time at the end of the 2012?13 season and would go on to follow Poyet to Sunderland during the following season. 

March 10th, 1973 in Buenos Aires (Age 52)