27-year-old Hampton & Richmond Borough defender Michael Kamara has committed his international future to Sierra Leone. Kamara, who is plying his trade in the English National League six-tier division, was born in Greece from parents hailing from Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n
Kamara told footballsierraleone.net. \u201cIt will be an honour to represent the country of my parents. I\u2019m confident, motivated ready to take my game to the next level.\u201cI\u2019m buzzing with excitement. However, is up to the football authorities but I\u2019ve always wanted to play international football for the country of my parents.<\/p>\n
The Defender also revealed he has already been encouraged by some Sierra Leone internationals. \u201cI have some good friends that are encouraging me as they have already represented Sierra Leone \u2013 the likes of Kei Kamara, Alie Sesay and Umaru Bangura, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPresently we are chasing promotion; I am a defender who can play right back or as a centre back. I\u2019ve played 33 games this season scoring 11 goals.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was born in Greece Athens, my parents are from Sierra Leone, I started at Cambridge United at 16, and then got a move to Crystal Palace where I got called to the English U-23 squad.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, I was unable to play due to injury \u2013 having left Crystal Palace I dropped into non-league where I played for Woking in the conference national but couldn\u2019t avoid relegation.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince then I have played for Dover Athletic, where I was part of their Conference South Playoff winning side 2013\u201314 and Dulwich Hamlet. Last season I helped Hampton and Richmond gained promotion to the National League South,\u201d Kamara explained.<\/p>\n
Alie Ahmed Bittar, footballsierraleone.net<\/em><\/p>\n Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news! <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 27-year-old Hampton & Richmond Borough defender Michael Kamara has committed his international future to Sierra Leone. Kamara, who is plying his trade in the English […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":80883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[21720,21719],"class_list":["post-80881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-hampton-richmond-borough","tag-michael-kamara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80881","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=80881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80882,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80881\/revisions\/80882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}