Jean-Philippe Mateta

Mateta is the kind of striker I quietly root for. A 192 cm target man born just outside Paris, he took the long road through Chateauroux, Lyon, a loan at Le Havre, and Mainz in the Bundesliga before finding a real home at Crystal Palace. That winding path is what interests me most: nothing was handed to him, and you can sense the stubbornness it took to reach the France national team. Big number-nines get pigeonholed as aerial bullies, but I suspect his quieter, hold-up work matters just as much. A grafter who earned his stage, and I respect that.

Name (English)

Jean-Philippe Mateta

Name (Japanese)

ジャン＝フィリップ・マテタ

Reading

じゃん＝ふぃりっぷ・まてた

Born

June 28, 1997 (age 29)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Ox

Origin

Sevran, Seine-et-Oise, France

Height

192 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/iammateta/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Philippe%20Mateta
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%9D%E3%83%95%E3%82%A3%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%86%E3%82%BF
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26964668

Tags

• Seine-et-Oise
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-11

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