{"id":72476,"date":"2015-01-15T02:08:54","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=72476"},"modified":"2015-01-15T02:08:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T02:08:54","slug":"medo-kamara-signs-for-maccabi-haifa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=72476","title":{"rendered":"Medo Kamara signs on loan for Maccabi Haifa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Haifa has completed the loan signing of Sierra Leone international and Bolton Wanderers midfielder Mohamed \u2018Medo\u2019 Kamara.<\/p>\n<p>The Former Partizan Belgrade player is the first signing in the January transfer window by the Haifa coach Marco Balbul for the Israeli-based club.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old has made 57 appearances for the Trotters, scoring three goals.<\/p>\n<p>However, he\u00a0hasn\u2019t featured since the League Cup third round defeat at Chelsea in September and has been deemed surplus to requirements since Neil Lennon\u2019s arrival as manager last\u00a0October.<\/p>\n<p>The Sierra Leone international has another season on his contract at Macron Stadium, keeping him tied to the club until June 30, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Maccabi Haifa FC is one of the giant clubs in Israeli football and has won 12 league titles with 5-State Cups and 4-Total Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Medo started playing football in his school at the age of 7.\u00a0 His older brother, Kemoh Kamara, was teaching in the school and also taught football.<\/p>\n<p>At the age of 12, Medo joined his first club, Sierra Rangers. His football career took a great step forward after signing for top division club FC Kallon in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Medo played for the Sierra Leone U-17 team that finished runners-up of the \u00a02003 African U-17 Championship\u00a0in Swaziland.\u00a0 He was also a member of the same team\u00a0\u00a0at the 2003\u00a0FIFA U-17 Wolrd Cup in Finland.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.footballsierraleone.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Credit: Football Sierra Leone\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maccabi Haifa has completed the loan signing of Sierra Leone international and Bolton Wanderers midfielder Mohamed \u2018Medo\u2019 Kamara. The Former Partizan Belgrade player is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72477,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[14731],"class_list":["post-72476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-medo-kamara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72476","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}