Biography
Chris Kamara (born 25 December 1957 in Middlesbrough) 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. He is now embarking on a soon-to-be legendary music career.
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.
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.
Kamara's father is from Sierra Leone.
Music Career
His music career kicked off with a sensational cover of Brown Eyed Girl and Summertime which also included Dion Dublin on saxophone. Rumoured to be starting a new band with Rudi Völler on bass, Kevin Keegan on drums, Glenn Hoddle on guitar and Rodney Marsh on keys.
Other Info
He is a great friend of Middlesbrough chairman Steve Gibson who he grew up with on Middlesbrough's Park End council estate.
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