{"id":78349,"date":"2016-05-15T20:08:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=78349"},"modified":"2016-05-15T20:08:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T20:08:55","slug":"new-england-striker-kamara-to-wear-no-13-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=78349","title":{"rendered":"New England Striker Kamara to Wear No.13 Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The New England Revolution striker Kei Ansu Kamara will wear the No.13 on the back of his shirt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The news was confirmed by the club on their twitter account thanking fans for making the selection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sierra Leone-born is expected to make his Revolution debut on Saturday night when the Revs will kick off a three-game homestand against the Chicago Fire at the Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After earning a suspension for his on-field public outburst targeting at Federico Higuain last Saturday, Kamara was later traded to the Revolution on Thursday putting an end to his exciting career with the Black and Gold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 31-year-old left Columbus Crew SC for Revolution and has enjoyed considerable success scoring 32 goals in 77 appearances between his two spells at Columbus including the 2015 Eastern Conference title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Overall Kamara has made 234 MLS appearances, including 187 starts, recording 79 goals and 31 assists while logging 17,195 minutes in his MLS career.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last season was one of Kamara\u2019s best setting the all-time single-season club records for Crew SC in 2015 with 135 shots, 57 shots on goal, and seven game-winning goals.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New England Revolution striker Kei Ansu Kamara will wear the No.13 on the back of his shirt. The news was confirmed by the club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[21239,13193,21240],"class_list":["post-78349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-columbus-crew-sc","tag-kei-ansu-kamara","tag-new-england-revolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78349","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=78349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}