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{{Infobox football biography
| name           = Igor Matić
| image          = 
| image_size     = 300
| caption        = 
| birth_date     = {{birth date and age|1981|07|22|df=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Bugojno]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|SFR Yugoslavia]]
| height         = {{height|m=1.76}}
| position       = [[Midfielder]]
| currentclub    = [[FK Čukarički|Čukarički]]
| clubnumber     = 10
| youthyears1    = 
| youthclubs1    = 
| years1         = 1998–2003
| clubs1         = [[FK Zemun|Zemun]]
| caps1          = 71
| goals1         = 11
| years2         = 2003–2005
| clubs2         = [[OFK Beograd]]
| caps2          = 36
| goals2         = 11
| years3         = 2005–2006
| clubs3         = [[SM Caen|Caen]]
| caps3          = 24
| goals3         = 2
| years4         = 2008
| clubs4         = [[FK Banat Zrenjanin|Banat Zrenjanin]]
| caps4          = 11
| goals4         = 0
| years5         = 2008
| clubs5         = [[FC Megasport|Megasport]]
| caps5          = 11
| goals5         = 0
| years6         = 2009–2010
| clubs6         = [[OFK Grbalj|Grbalj]]
| caps6          = 27
| goals6         = 9
| years7         = 2010–2012
| clubs7         = [[FK Mogren|Mogren]]
| caps7          = 43
| goals7         = 10
| years8         = 2012
| clubs8         = [[FK Napredak Kruševac|Napredak Kruševac]]
| caps8          = 16
| goals8         = 3
| years9         = 2012–
| clubs9         = [[FK Čukarički|Čukarički]]
| caps9          = 120
| goals9         = 24
| nationalyears1 = 2002–2004
| nationalteam1  = [[Serbia and Montenegro national under-21 football team|Serbia and Montenegro U21]]<ref name=UEFA>Only official [[UEFA]] matches included</ref>
| nationalcaps1  = 11
| nationalgoals1 = 3
| nationalyears2 = 2004
| nationalteam2  = [[Serbia and Montenegro national under-23 football team|Serbia and Montenegro Olympic]]
| nationalcaps2  = 2
| nationalgoals2 = 0
| club-update = 14 December 2016
| nationalteam-update = 
}}
'''Igor Matić''' ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|Игор Матић}}; born 22 July 1981) is a [[Serbia]]n [[Association football|football]]er who plays as a [[midfielder#Deep-lying playmaker|deep-lying playmaker]] for [[Serbian SuperLiga|SuperLiga]] club [[FK Čukarički|Čukarički]]. He represented [[Serbia and Montenegro]] at the [[Football at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament|men's football tournament in the 2004 Summer Olympics]].

==Club career==

===Zemun===
Matić began his senior football career with [[FK Zemun]] in 1998. As a 19-year-old, he was one of the players involved in Zemun's famous drive in the semifinals of the [[1999–2000 FR Yugoslavia Cup|1999-2000 Cup of Yugoslavia]].<ref name="Napredak">{{cite web|url=http://fknapredak.rs/print.php?news.39|author=FK Napredak|title=Igor Matić: 'U Napretku kao u Francuskoj'}}</ref> He played for Zemun until 2003.

===OFK Beograd===
Matić joined [[OFK Beograd]] from Zemun in 2003, and played alongside [[Branislav Ivanović]] in one of the strongest generations of OFK Beograd that decade. One highlight of Matić's spell at OFK was making the [[2004 UEFA Intertoto Cup#Semifinals|2004 UEFA Intertoto semifinals]] before being eliminated by [[Atlético Madrid]].

===Mogren===
Matić joined Mogren from Grbalj in 2010, where he would spend two years and amass 43 appearances and contribute with 10 goals. In January 2012, Matić sued Mogren in Montenegro's arbitrage court because he wasn't paid for over five months.<ref>[http://www.vijesti.me/sport/igor-matic-nismo-culi-nijednu-iskrenu-recenicu-sportskog-direktora-clanak-56962] Perić, Dejan. ''Vijesti'': Igor Matić: Nismo čuli nijednu iskrenu rečenicu sportskog direktora {{sr icon}} 20 January 2012</ref>

===Napredak===
After leaving Mogren on a sour note, Matić joined [[FK Napredak Kruševac|Napredak Kruševac]] in January 2012, who had just hired [[Aleksandar Kristić]] as their coach.<ref>[http://www.vijesti.me/sport/matic-pojacava-napredak-clanak-57105] Perić, Dejan. ''Vijesti'': Matić pojačava Napredak {{sr icon}} 20 January 2012</ref> This was an important factor in Matić choosing to join Napredak, as he and Kristić had known each other since he was at OFK Beograd, as Kristić was one of OFK's youth coaches at the time.<ref name="Napredak"/>

===Čukarički===
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|source=[[Slaviša Stojanovič]], [[Red Star Belgrade|Red Star]] coach in April 2014<ref name="Mozzart">{{cite web|url=http://www.mozzartsport.com/vesti/stojanovic-upozorava-pred-cuku-matic-opasno-centrira-stoperi-dobro-skacu/74172|author=Mozzart Sport (author unknown)|title=Stojanović upozorava pred Čuku: Matić opasno centrira, štoperi dobro skaču}}</ref>
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After only a half-season with Napredak, Matić quickly joined Čukarički, which was in 2012 the first privatized professional football club in Serbia. He would become Čukarički's playmaker and contribute to their promotion to the first-tier [[Serbian SuperLiga|SuperLiga]]. In an October 2013 article titled "They are the 'oldies', everyone fears them", Serbia's ''[[Sportal]]'' named Matić in an 11-man selection of the best players over the age of 28 in the [[Serbian SuperLiga|SuperLiga]].<ref>[http://www.sportal.rs/news.php?news=110931] Sportal: Oni su "starci", a plaše ih se svi {{sr icon}} 7 October 2013</ref> On March 18, 2015, he suffered a hamstring injury which sidelined him for two weeks.<ref>[http://www.sportske.net/vest/domaci-fudbal/dobre-vesti-za-cuku-vraca-se-kapiten-219288.html] Sportske: Dobre vesti za Čuku - Vraća se kapiten! {{sr icon}} 30 March 2015</ref> 

==International career==
Despite having born in [[Bugojno]], [[SR Bosnia and Herzegovina]], he opted to represent Serbia and Montenegr internationally.  Matić was part of the [[Serbia and Montenegro national under-21 football team|Serbia and Montenegro national under-21 team]] that finished runners-up at the [[2004 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship|2004 European Championship]]. He was also part of the Serbia and Montenegro team at the [[2004 Summer Olympics]].

==Honours==
;Čukarički
*[[Serbian Cup]] (1): [[2014–15 Serbian Cup|2014–15]]

==Notes and references==
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==External links==
* [http://www.lfp.fr/joueur/matic-igor Igor Matić] at lfp.fr
* [http://www.srbijafudbal.net/cukaricki/matic_i.htm Igor Matić] at srbijafudbal.net

{{FK Čukarički squad}}
{{Serbia and Montenegro Squad 2004 Summer Olympics}}


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