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Chris Kamara
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| Chris Kamara | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Christopher Kamara | |
| Date of birth | December 25, 1957 (age 49) | |
| Place of birth | Middlesbrough, England | |
| Height | 6 ft 1 in / 1.85 m | |
| Nickname | Kammy | |
| Playing position | Defender/midfielder | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1973–75 | Royal Navy | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1975–77 1977–81 1981 1981–85 1985–88 1988–90 1990 –91 1991–93 1992–93 1993 1993–94 1994–95 |
Portsmouth Swindon Town Portsmouth Brentford Swindon Town Stoke City Leeds United Luton Town → Sheffield United (loan) → Middlesbrough (loan) Sheffield United Bradford City Total |
63 (7) 147 (21) 11 (0) 152 (28) 87 (6) 60 (5) 20 (1) 49 (0) 8 (0) 5 (0) 16 (0) 23 (3) 641 (71) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Chris Kamara (born 25 December 1957 in Middlesbrough) is a former professional footballer in England. Since retiring from football in 1995 he is best known for his work at Sky Sports as a football analyst.
He 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. An irrepressible character, he is often known to get over excited and exclaim, "Unbelievable, Jeff!" to host Jeff Stelling, a phrase which has become his trademark catchphrase.
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.
Despite bad conduct on the football field, Kamara is now regarded as a friendly and generous man - often it has been reported of his approachability - he always seems to be able to spare time to chat and give autographs to fans.
- Photos and stats at sporting-heroes.net
Categories: 1957 births | People from North Yorkshire | Living people | English footballers | Portsmouth F.C. players | Brentford F.C. players | Swindon Town F.C. players | Stoke City F.C. players | Leeds United AFC players | Luton Town F.C. players | Sheffield United F.C. players | Middlesbrough F.C. players | Bradford City A.F.C. players | English football managers | Bradford City A.F.C. managers | Stoke City F.C. managers | FA Premier League players