Marvin Matip

Marvin Matip ( born September 25, 1985 in Bochum ) is a German - Cameroonian footballer who is 04 has a contract with FC Ingolstadt since 2010. Its currently at FC Schalke 04 playing brother Joel Matip is just like his cousin Joseph- Désiré Job professional football player.

Career

Clubs

In the southwest of Bochum Matip learned as the initial central defender, whose father from Cameroon and whose mother is from Germany, the SC 45 Weitmar the football game. In 1994 he then moved to VfL Bochum, where he went through all the youth teams.

In the 2004/05 season he played for the amateur team of Bochum in the Oberliga Westfalen missing out on promotion to the Regionalliga Nord due to a defeat in the last game just barely. His first try in the Bundesliga he graduated in the same season in the game against VfL Wolfsburg.

Before the start of the 2005/06 season, he joined the newly promoted 1.FC Cologne. Matip contract with FC Cologne 1 was extended in June 2009 to the end of the 2010/11 season.

1 February 2010, Matip joined on loan with option to buy at Karlsruher SC.

Shortly before the end of the summer transfer window 2010 Matip joined on 31 August 2010 to the second division FC Ingolstadt 04

National

Matip had 14 appearances in the German U-20 national team, in which he scored among other things, at the 2005 Junior World Championships in the Netherlands in the second round against China the decisive goal for 3:2. In addition, Matip played for the U-21 national team at the U-21 European Championship in Portugal in 2006, where the team did not reach with two losses and a win the final round.

On June 2, 2013 Matip made ​​his international debut for the selection of Cameroon against the Ukrainian national football team when he came on in the 78th minute game for Dany Nounkeu.