Chris Kamara

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Chris Kamara
Personal information
Full name Christopher Kamara
Date of birth December 25, 1957 (1957-12-25) (age 50)
Place of birth    Middlesbrough, England
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Defender/midfielder
Youth clubs
1973–1975 Royal Navy
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1975–1977
1977–1981
1981
1981–1985
1985–1988
1988–1990
1990 –1991
1991–1993
1992–1993
1993
1993–1994
1994–1995		 Portsmouth
Swindon Town
Portsmouth
Brentford
Swindon Town
Stoke City
Leeds United
Luton Town
→ Sheffield United (loan)
→ Middlesbrough (loan)
Sheffield United
Bradford City
Total		 063 0(7)
147 (21)
011 0(0)
152 (28)
087 0(6)
060 0(5)
020 0(1)
049 0(0)
008 0(0)
005 0(0)
016 0(0)
023 0(3)
641 (71)   
Teams managed
1995–1998
1998		 Bradford City
Stoke City

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only.
* Appearances (Goals)

Chris Kamara (born 25 December 1957 in Middlesbrough, his father though being from Sierra Leone) is a former professional footballer in England. He retired from playing in 1995 but since he last managed a club in 1998 he is best known for his work at Sky Sports as a football analyst.

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[edit] Playing career

After serving with the British Royal Navy, Kamara joined Portsmouth in 1975, beginning a professional footballing career that saw him move between 9 clubs, scoring 71 goals in 641 league appearances.

After acquiring a reputation as a hard man as a player, this continued into his forays as a manager, resulting with him being censured for his conduct. Kamara spent short spells as manager of Stoke City and Bradford City, nearly relegating the former and the latter being the club he ended his playing career with. He steered the Bantams to promotion in the 1995-96 season through the play-offs, and is very highly thought of at Valley Parade.

Chris currently lives in the semi-rural West Yorkshire village of Kirkhamgate. He is a great friend of Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson who he grew up with on Middlesbrough's Park End council estate.[1]

[edit] Career as commentator and presenter

Kamara presents Sky Sports' Goals On Sunday show and provides additional commentary on some of Sky's televised matches. Perhaps he is most renowned for the Soccer Saturday programme, where he usually appears over live video link providing brief updates on the match he is watching. He also guests on Soccer AM where he brings live link ups hours before games from various stadia and inevitably gives away both teams' line ups and tactics. He is often known to get overexcited and exclaim "Unbelievable, Jeff!" to host Jeff Stelling, a phrase which has become his trademark catchphrase.

On April 1, 2007, as an April Fools joke, Kamara announced that his time as presenter of Goals on Sunday had come to an end, and that he had signed a contract to become first-team manager at Bradford City - while not earning as much money as he did with Sky, he claimed that he was doing it for the love, not the money.

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/0,,1841134,00.html guardian Football "InterView with Chris"] .

[edit] External links


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