LEGENDARY Soccer Saturday presenter Chris Kamara has made an affectional connection aft returning to punditry connected Boxing Day.
He spent 24 years presenting Soccer Saturday alongside Jeff Stelling but stepped backmost successful 2022 aft being diagnosed with code apraxia.
Kamara represents the Marie Curie FoundationPA Media
Kamara reported for Soccer Saturday alongside Jeff Stelling for respective yearsSportsfile
Kamara played professionally for Leeds, Portsmouth, and BrentfordGETTYThe information slows down a person’s code and thought processes.
Kamara made the power to punditry pursuing an extended playing vocation which saw him diagnostic for the likes of Portsmouth, Brentford, and Luton Town.
Kamara made a little instrumentality to presenting successful December, reporting connected Nottingham Forest‘s 1-0 location triumph implicit Tottenham Hotspur connected Boxing Day for Amazon Prime.
It was a melodramatic tie, and, successful Kammy’s eyes, a large mode to headdress disconnected his vocation should it beryllium his last TV appearance.
Speaking to The Express, helium said: “If that’s my past crippled arsenic a reporter, what a mode to spell out.”
He continued, saying however excited helium was to person the invitation from Amazon: “At that time, I could hardly talk, wasn’t capable to retrieve the players names and was slurring my words.
“When my woman told me Amazon had been connected the telephone I said ‘I cognize I americium getting nether your feet, but I’m not delivering parcels!’
“Andrew Hornet was connected the telephone asking maine to enactment for Amazon Prime, covering the Forest v Spurs lucifer with the unbelievable Jeff Stelling – and I loved it!
“No anxiety, nary slurring, the crippled was bully and Nottingham Forest treated maine similar a returning hero.”
Kamara has had different invitations to instrumentality to the satellite of broadcast but chosen alternatively to absorption connected charitable ventures, astir precocious helping to motorboat Marie Curie’s Great Daffodil Appeal 2025.
The motorboat saw him instrumentality to the streets of Leeds to correspond the charity, donning a agleam yellowish outfit arsenic helium spoke with locals.
“Marie Curie’s enactment is invaluable, providing adept attraction and enactment to people, and their families, astatine the astir hard times successful their lives,” helium said.
“Having faced my ain challenges, I recognize conscionable however important it is to person the close enactment erstwhile you request it most.”
Kamara raised £385,000 for the Marie Curie Foundation successful 2011, by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro alongside Brendan Rodgers and Aidy Boothroyd.
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