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Jamille Matt
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Biography
Date of birth
20/10/1989
Height
185 cm
Signed
13/01/2023
Country
Jamaica
Jamille Matt joined the Saddlers on an 18-month contract in January 2023.
The 33-year-old has a keen eye for goal, being the third highest goalscorer in Sky Bet League Two in the 2021-22 season with 19 goals.
Matt worked with Head Coach Michael Flynn during his stint at Newport County between 2018 and 2020.
Matt began his career in the West Midlands with Sutton Coldfield Town. He has also represented Kidderminster Harriers, Fleetwood Town, Stevenage, Plymouth Argyle, Blackpool and Grimsby Town.
He left Blackpool at the end of the 2017-18 season and joined Flynn at Newport that summer where his career took off.
Matt scored 26 goals in 98 matches, with 20 of them coming in the 2018-19 campaign that saw the Exiles reach the play-off final.
In the summer of 2020, he joined Forest Green and scored 17 goals in his first season as Rovers finished in the play-off places.
Matt improved his tally in his second season at the Bolt New Lawn, netting 20 to help Forest Green win League Two 2022.
In total, he has netted 39 goals in two and half seasons in Gloucestershire.
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