{"id":68859,"date":"2014-07-10T00:29:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T00:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=68859"},"modified":"2014-07-10T00:29:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T00:29:42","slug":"aitor-karanka-kei-kamara-is-fit-and-ready-to-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=68859","title":{"rendered":"Aitor Karanka&#8230; Kei Kamara is fit and ready to compete."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka has said Sierra Leone International striker Kei Kamara is fit and well and the goal poacher is ready to push for a place in Boro\u2019s starting squad.\u00a0 (Photo: l-r Kai Kamara, and Aitor Karanka)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">SEM Sports UK understands Kamara&#8217;s Boro future appeared very much in doubt last month after he critised the club on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kamara revealed that he had been suffering from malaria and implied that his club and the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) had not offered enough care of support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Karanka noted Kamara looks healthy and is working hard on the Rushcliffe Park training pitches. &#8220;I think his sickness is over and he&#8217;s in a good mood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kamara made an impressive start to life at Boro after joining the club from Sporting Kansas City on transfer deadline day August 2103.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His progress was stalled by a knee injury suffered at Birmingham City in December, and since his return the striker struggled to make Boro&#8217;s first team.<\/p>\n<p><b><i>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middlesbrough manager Aitor Karanka has said Sierra Leone International striker Kei Kamara is fit and well and the goal poacher is ready to push for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":68860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[19161,5236,17040],"class_list":["post-68859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-aitor-karanka","tag-kei-kamara","tag-middlesbrough-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}