Mattéo Ahlinvi (born 2 July 1999) is a professional

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who plays as

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for Västerås SK. Born in France, he plays for the Benin national team.

Career

In April 2019, Ahlinvi signed with

Nîmes Olympique Nîmes Olympique (commonly referred to as simply Nîmes) is a French association football club based in Nîmes. The club was founded on 10 April 1937 and currently plays in Ligue 2, the second level of French football. Until November 2022, t ...

. He made his first team debut with Nîmes in a 3–0

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win over

RC Lens Racing Club de Lens (, commonly referred to as RC Lens or simply Lens) is a French professional football club based in the northern city of Lens in the Pas-de-Calais department. Its nickname, ''les sang et or'' (''the blood and gold''), come ...

on 29 October 2019. He signed his first professional contract with the club in June 2020. On 14 June 2021, he signed a three-year contract with

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International career

Ahlinvi was born in France to a Beninese father and French mother. He was a youth international for France. He debuted for the Benin national team in a friendly 2–0 win over

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on 12 October 2020.

Personal life

Ahlinvi's brother

Joris Ahlinvi Joris Ahlinvi (born 13 July 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger. Club career Valenciennes, Montpellier & Lége-Cap-Ferret Ahlinvi played with the Valenciennes academy and their second team in the CFA. Following Va ...

is also a footballer, who was called up to represent the

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Career Statistsics

Club

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FFF Profile
1999 births Living people People from Arcachon Beninese men's footballers Benin men's international footballers French men's footballers France men's youth international footballers Beninese people of French descent French sportspeople of Beninese descent Men's association football midfielders En Avant Guingamp players Nîmes Olympique players Dijon FCO players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National 2 players Championnat National 3 players Footballers from Gironde Black French sportspeople FK Čukarički players Serbian SuperLiga players Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia {{France-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub