Nemanja Matić

Serbian association football player

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Nemanja Matić is a professional soccer player from Serbia who has played for top European clubs. He matters because he is a skilled midfielder who has been an important player for major teams and has represented his country internationally.

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Instance of: human
Given name: Nemanja
Family name: Matić
Gender: male
Citizenship: Serbia
Place of birth: Šabac
Sibling: Uroš Matić
Occupation: association football player
Languages spoken: Serbian
Participant in: 2018 FIFA World Cup
Sport: association football
Member of team: US Sassuolo Calcio
Position played: defensive midfielder
League: Ligue 1
Country for sport: Serbia
Mass: 85
Image: Nemanja Matić 2018 (cropped).jpg
Height: 194

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name in native language: Nemanja Matić
date of birth: 1988-08-01
sport number: 18
Commons category: Nemanja Matić
start of work period: 2006-00-00
number of matches played/races/starts: 1
total goals in career: 0
social media followers: 383595

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Encyclopedic overview

Nemanja Matić (Serbian Cyrillic: Немања Матић, pronounced [němaɲa mǎːtitɕ]; born 1 August 1988) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Serie A club Sassuolo.

Matić began his senior career at Kolubara, before joining Slovak side Košice in 2007. He moved to English club Chelsea for £1.5 million in 2009. Used sparingly during his first spell at the club, he spent the 2010–11 season on loan at Dutch club Vitesse, and in the summer of 2011, he moved to Benfica as part of a swap deal involving David Luiz. He won the Primeira Liga Player of the Year award for his performances in the 2012–13 season.

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