![]() Kamara in 2022 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 6 August 2000 | ||
Place of birth | Tombo, Sierra Leone | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Bo Rangers | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2018 | AIK Freetong | ||
2019 | East End Lions | (15) | |
2019 | Trelleborgs FF | 0 | (0) |
2020–2021 | East End Lions | ||
2021–2022 | Bo Rangers | (19) | |
2022 | Al-Ittihad | ||
2022- | Bo Rangers | (14) | |
International career‡ | |||
2018 | Sierra Leone U20 | 1 | (0) |
2018– | Sierra Leone | 6 | (3) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 June 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 19:34, 20 January 2022 (UTC) |
Musa Noah Kamara (born 6 August 2000) is a Sierra Leonean footballer who plays as a striker for Bo Rangers and the Sierra Leone national team.
Kamara was born in Tombo. [1] After playing for AIK Freetong in 2018, he was the top scorer of the 2019 Sierra Leone National Premier League with 15 goals for champions East End Lions. [1] [2] He joined Swedish club Trelleborgs FF on a three-and-a-half-year deal in August 2019, but cancelled his contract after a week, citing the cold weather in Sweden. [2] He retracted that statement the following day however, and insisted that he returned to Sierra Leone to play for the national team in the upcoming World Cup qualification fixtures. [3] [1] He transferred to Bo Rangers in April 2021. [4]
Having previously represented Sierra Leone at under-20 level, Kamara made his senior debut for Sierra Leone against Liberia on 26 July 2018. [5] He represented Sierra Leone at the 2019 WAFU Cup of Nations. [6] He did not travel to Kono to play a friendly match in November 2019 after suffering a bereavement, but received a two match international ban from the Sierra Leone Football Association after it was discovered he played a community match in Freetown during this period. [6]
Kamara was called up to Sierra Leone's squad for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations tournament, which began in January 2022. [7] He scored his first international goal with a "magnificent left-footed strike" in a 2–2 draw with Ivory Coast in Sierra Leone's second group match on 16 January 2022. [1] [8] He appeared in their third group match as they were eliminated from the competition after a 1–0 defeat to Equatorial Guinea. [9]
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 13 June 2022 | Japoma Stadium, Douala, Cameroon | ![]() | 1–1 | 2–2 | 2021 Africa Cup of Nations |
2. | 13 June 2022 | General Lansana Conté Stadium, Conakry, Guinea | ![]() | 2–2 | 2–2 | 2023 Africa Cup of Nations qualification |
3. | 27 August 2022 | SKD Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia | ![]() | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2022 African Nations Championship qualification |
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