[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fir9tas1mn3sx":3},{"id":4,"translationKey":5,"locale":6,"kind":7,"slug":8,"title":9,"description":10,"answer":11,"faq":12,"status":13,"mergedInto":14,"origin":15,"sources":16,"tags":33,"imageUrl":14,"entities":35,"publishedAt":42,"createdAt":43,"updatedAt":43,"html":44,"path":45,"media":46,"alternates":65},2,"bio","en","guide","biography","Matty Cash – Biography, Age, Family and Polish Roots","The complete Matty Cash biography: date of birth, height, family, his Polish grandparents from Brańsk and his path from Wycombe to Aston Villa and Poland.","Matty Cash (Matthew Stuart Cash, born 7 August 1997 in Slough) is an Aston Villa right-back and Poland international. He is 29 years old and 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall. 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He is a right-back who has played for \u003Cstrong>Aston Villa\u003C\u002Fstrong> since September 2020 and for the \u003Cstrong>Poland\u003C\u002Fstrong> national team since November 2021. Villa's supporters once dubbed him "the Polish Cafu".\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Early life and youth football\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Cash grew up in \u003Cstrong>Iver, Buckinghamshire\u003C\u002Fstrong>, and attended St Joseph's Catholic High School in Slough. He came through the \u003Cstrong>Wycombe Wanderers\u003C\u002Fstrong> academy but was released at 14, when the club's financial problems forced its youth teams to disband. He then spent 16 months at the \u003Cstrong>FAB Academy\u003C\u002Fstrong> at Bisham Abbey, and worked at the Daniel department store before joining Nottingham Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Nottingham Forest: from winger to right-back\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Cash joined \u003Cstrong>Nottingham Forest\u003C\u002Fstrong> in October 2014. His first senior football came on loan at League Two side \u003Cstrong>Dagenham & Redbridge\u003C\u002Fstrong>, where he scored 3 goals in 12 games. He made his Forest first-team debut in August 2016 in a 4–3 win over Burton Albion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He started out as a midfielder and winger. In 2019–20, manager \u003Cstrong>Sabri Lamouchi\u003C\u002Fstrong> moved him to \u003Cstrong>right-back\u003C\u002Fstrong>, the switch that transformed his career. Forest supporters voted him their \u003Cstrong>Player of the Season for 2019–20\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Aston Villa\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>On \u003Cstrong>3 September 2020\u003C\u002Fstrong>, Aston Villa signed Cash for a reported \u003Cstrong>£14 million, rising to £16 million\u003C\u002Fstrong>. Villa supporters voted him \u003Cstrong>Player of the Season for 2021–22\u003C\u002Fstrong>. In August 2023 he marked his 100th Villa appearance with two goals at Burnley. He won the \u003Cstrong>UEFA Europa League\u003C\u002Fstrong> with Villa in 2025–26, and in October 2025 extended his contract \u003Cstrong>until 2029\u003C\u002Fstrong>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Polish roots and the national team\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Matty's mother was born in the UK to Polish parents. His grandfather, \u003Cstrong>Ryszard Tomaszewski\u003C\u002Fstrong>, was a \u003Cem>Sybirak\u003C\u002Fem>, a Polish refugee from Soviet captivity during the Second World War. His grandmother \u003Cstrong>Janina\u003C\u002Fstrong> was born in \u003Cstrong>Brańsk\u003C\u002Fstrong> in north-eastern Poland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His Polish citizenship was confirmed on \u003Cstrong>26 October 2021\u003C\u002Fstrong> in Warsaw, and on \u003Cstrong>12 November 2021\u003C\u002Fstrong> he made his Poland debut in a 4–1 win over Andorra. He went to the \u003Cstrong>2022 FIFA World Cup\u003C\u002Fstrong> in Qatar. More: \u003Ca href=\"\u002Fen\u002Fpoland-national-team\">Matty Cash and the Poland national team\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Ch2>Family\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cul>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Father:\u003C\u002Fstrong> Stuart Cash, a former professional footballer.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Sister:\u003C\u002Fstrong> Hannah Cash, a CBS Sports reporter in the United States. She interviewed her brother after Villa's 2025 Champions League quarter-final against PSG.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003Cli>\u003Cstrong>Brother:\u003C\u002Fstrong> Adam, a school-level football coach.\u003C\u002Fli>\n\u003C\u002Ful>\n\u003Ch2>Off the pitch\u003C\u002Fh2>\n\u003Cp>Cash is a keen \u003Cstrong>snooker\u003C\u002Fstrong> player and has appeared on Stephen Hendry's "Cue Tips" YouTube channel. In February 2022, after scoring at Brighton, he revealed a shirt message supporting his Poland teammate Tomasz Kędziora and his family, who were in Kyiv.\u003C\u002Fp>\n","\u002Fen\u002Fbiography",{"hero":47,"heroIsFallback":61,"gallery":62,"clips":63,"posts":64},{"src":48,"webp":49,"width":50,"height":51,"alt":52,"caption":55,"author":58,"license":59,"sourcePage":60},"\u002Fimages\u002Fmoodboard\u002Fcelebration-old-trafford.jpg","celebration-old-trafford",1100,748,{"pl":53,"en":54},"Piłkarze Aston Villi z Mattym Cashem cieszą się z gola na Old Trafford","Aston Villa players including Matty Cash celebrating at Old Trafford",{"pl":56,"en":57},"Old Trafford 0–1. Wygrana!","Old Trafford 0–1. Get in!","Ardfern","CC BY-SA 4.0","https:\u002F\u002Fcommons.wikimedia.org\u002Fwiki\u002FFile:Manchester_United_v_Aston_Villa,_25_September_2021_(37).jpg",true,[],[],[],{"en":45,"pl":66},"\u002Fbiografia"]