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Joël Matip
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Cameroonian-German association football player (born 1991)
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Joël Matip is a Cameroonian-German association football player born in Bochum in 1991. He plays as a centre-back and full-back, wearing the number 32 jersey. His career includes stints with Schalke 04 and Liverpool F.C., competing in the Bundesliga and Premier League. He has represented the Cameroon men's national football team in international competitions, including the 2010 and 2014 FIFA World Cups and the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations.
Matip was born Job Joël André Matip and speaks German. He is the sibling of Marvin Matip. Throughout his professional career, he has recorded zero total goals. In November 2009, he made one match appearance. He has also been diagnosed with COVID-19.
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Key facts
- Full name
- Job Joël André Matip
- Date of birth
- ( 1991-08-08 ) 8 August 1991 (age 34)
- Place of birth
- Bochum , Germany
- Height
- 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
- Position
- Centre-back
- 1995 1997
- SC Weitmar 45
- 1997 2000
- VfL Bochum
- 2000 2009
- Schalke 04
- Years
- Team
- 2009 2011
- Schalke 04 II
- 2009 2016
- Schalke 04
- 2016 2024
- Liverpool
- 2010 2015
- Cameroon
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Centre-Back
- Nationality
- Cameroon
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- André
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Cameroon
- Place of birth
- Bochum
- Sibling
- Marvin Matip
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- German
- Native language
- German
- Participant in
- 2010 Africa Cup of Nations
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Liverpool F.C.
- Position played
- centre-back
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Cameroon
- Mass
- 90
- Image
- 2022-07-21 Fußball, Männer,Freundschaftsspiel, RB Leipzig - FC Liverpool 1DX 2092 by Stepro (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 195
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- Commons category
- Joël Matip
- date of birth
- 1991-08-08
- sport number
- 32
- birth name
- Job Joël André Matip
- name in native language
- Joël Matip
- start of work period
- 2009-11-07
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- total goals in career
- 0
- medical condition
- COVID-19
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Joël André Matip Job (born 8 August 1991) is a former professional footballer who played as a centre back.
Matip began his professional career with Schalke 04 in 2009, and was part of their teams that won the DFB-Pokal and DFL-Supercup in 2011. He totalled 258 competitive appearances and 23 goals before moving to Liverpool on a free transfer in 2016, where he won the UEFA Champions League in 2019, starting in the final. He also won the 2019 UEFA Super Cup and the 2019–20 Premier League.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Joël Matip” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.