Zatyiah, from Birmingham, had a trial period at Exeter City Academy in August and September 1996.

He played in the Exeter City Youth tour of Dorset in August 1996. He also played 1 game in the South West Counties League in 1996/97.

Zat was born in Solihull in 1980 and was on trial at Exeter as a 16 year old playing as a defender. He was with Rushall Olympic until 1999, from whom Fulham signed him, he played 150 games for them from 1999 to 2007. And also had a loan spell at Peterborough in 2000. Aston Villa signed him in 2007, for a fee of £3.5 million. After two seasons and 40 appearances, he moved to Bolton Wanderers for undisclosed fee, thought to be in the region of £4 million. Zat made over 160 appearances for them from 2009 to 2014. He then had a short spell at Colorado Rapids and finally Reading in 2015.

Zatyiah made his debut for England on 28 May 2005 as a substitute against the USA in a friendly match. His second cap was in a friendly against on Colombia on the 31 May 2005, he had also played 4 times for the Under 21’s from 2002.