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Joël Matip

1991 - Today

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Job Joël André Matip (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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2024). Joël Matip is the 5,538th most popular soccer player (down from 4,836th in 2024), the 5,535th most popular biography from Germany (down from 5,354th in 2019) and the 352nd most popular German Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Joël Matip ranks 5,538 out of 21,273. Before him are Adebayo Akinfenwa, Yujiro Haraguchi, Abou Diaby, Nenad Stojković, Gunnar Nielsen, and Shuta Takahashi. After him are Leonardo Spinazzola, Fábio Simplício, Wilfried Gröbner, Boris Kuznetsov, Luis Rubiños, and Katsuo Kanda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1991, Joël Matip ranks 97. Before him are Marcos Acuña, Isaac Cuenca, Duván Zapata, Oriol Romeu, Andreja Pejić, and CoCo Vandeweghe. After him are Charlie Puth, Christoph Kramer, Raúl Jiménez, Sergio Canales, Melisa Aslı Pamuk, and Earvin N'Gapeth.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Joël Matip ranks 5,538 out of 7,253. Before him are Bernd Krauss (1957), Kerstin Gier (1966), Günter Haritz (1948), Andreas Klöden (1975), Kenan Yıldız (2005), and Christian Streich (1965). After him are Wilfried Gröbner (1949), Renate Künast (1955), Wolfgang Hanisch (1951), Volker Fischer (1950), Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst (1959), and Peter Baumann (1953).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Germany

Among soccer players born in Germany, Joël Matip ranks 352. Before him are Falko Götz (1962), David Odonkor (1984), Dietmar Danner (1950), Bernd Krauss (1957), Kenan Yıldız (2005), and Christian Streich (1965). After him are Wilfried Gröbner (1949), Otto Addo (1975), Bernd Leno (1992), Tom Starke (1981), Kevin Großkreutz (1988), and Mario Pašalić (1995).

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