Question: Matthew Allan (born 26 February 1975) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League.He joined with the Carlton Football Club in 1992 and debuted in 1994 as the 1000th player to represent Carlton. He played as a ruckman reaching his peak in 1999 when he won the John Nicholls Medal won All-Australian selection and was selected for the International rules series. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete