| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Joël Job Matip | ||
| Date of birth | 8 August 1991 | ||
| Place of birth | Bochum, Germany | ||
| Height | 1.97 m (6 ft 5 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender Midfielder |
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| Club information | |||
| Current club | Schalke 04 | ||
| Number | 32 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994–1997 | SC Weitmar 45 | ||
| 1997–2000 | VfL Bochum | ||
| 2000–2009 | Schalke 04 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2009– | Schalke 04 II | 4 | (1) |
| 2009– | Schalke 04 | 60 | (4) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2010– | Cameroon | 5 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:57, 15 December 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals). |
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Joël Job Matip (born 8 August 1991 in Bochum) is a German-Cameroonian footballer currently playing for Schalke 04.
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Matip began his career with SC Weitmar 45 in 1994, (Aged 3?) and was eventually scouted by VfL Bochum in 1997.[1] After several years in VfL Bochum's different youth teams, Matip was scouted by Schalke 04 in July 2000.[2] He made his professional debut on 17 October 2009 in the Regionalliga against 1. FC Saarbrücken,[3] before making his Bundesliga debut on 7 November 2009 against Bayern Munich, in which he scored the game-tying goal.[4] He was subsequently named Man of the match.[5]
On 2 March 2010, Matip signed a three-and-a-half year contract with Schalke 04.[6]
Matip was called up on 23 December 2009 by the Cameroon national football team[7] for the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations but he later on declined to take part in the tournament.[8] It was not yet clear if Matip will represent Cameroon in the future as the German Football Association still hoped that he might represent his country of birth instead.[9] On 6 January 2010 Rainer Adrion announced the annulment of his nomination for the Nations Cup.[10] On 2 March 2010 Matip opted to play his international football for Cameroon, after meeting up with the national team ahead of Wednesday's friendly against Italy on 3 March 2010.[11] He made his first national cap in friendly match against Italy and went on to play in the 2010 World Cup.[12]
Matip was born to a German mother[13] and former Cameroonian footballer Jean Matip.[14] He is the brother of the German football player Marvin Matip[15] and is a cousin of Joseph-Désiré Job.[16] Matip graduated from the Gesamtschule Berger Feld in Gelsenkirchen in 2010.[17]
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