Ola Kamara
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Kamara (right) playing for Strømsgodset in 2012
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| Full name | Ola Williams Kamara | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 15 October 1989 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Oslo, Norway | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Striker, Winger | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Columbus Crew SC | |||||||||||
| Number | 11 | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| Frigg | ||||||||||||
| Stabæk | ||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Stabæk | 6 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2007 | → Hønefoss (loan) | 8 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Strømsgodset | 100 | (32) | |||||||||
| 2013–2014 | SV Ried | 0 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2013 | → TSV 1860 München (loan) | 10 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2013 | → Strømsgodset (loan) | 14 | (12) | |||||||||
| 2014–2016 | Austria Wien | 23 | (2) | |||||||||
| 2015 | → Molde (loan) | 29 | (14) | |||||||||
| 2016– | Columbus Crew SC | 37 | (22) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| Norway U23 | ||||||||||||
| 2013– | Norway | 7 | (1) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 May 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 28 January 2014 |
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Ola Williams Kamara (born 15 October 1989) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays for Columbus Crew SC in Major League Soccer. He plays as a winger or a striker, and has also played for Stabæk, Hønefoss, Strømsgodset, Molde, Austria Wien, and TSV 1860 München. Kamara, who is of Sierra Leonean descent, has represented Norway at the youth and senior international levels.
With a father who moved from Sierra Leone as a refugee, Kamara was born and grew up in Oslo. When Kamara was one year old, his parents chose to seek help in raising him, and Kamara spent every second weekend, holidays and birthdays with a foster care family. He played for Frigg during his youth, and made his debut for the first-team in the Second Division at the age of 15. Kamara moved to Stabæk at the age of 16, and soon became an integral part team of Stabæk's youth team. He scored the match-winning goal in the final against Viking when Stabæk won the Norwegian Youth Cup in 2008.
Kamara made his debut for Stabæk in Tippeligaen at the age of 16, when he replaced Somen Tchoyi as a substitute in the 2–2 draw against Lillestrøm on 1 October 2006. The next season, he joined the First Division side Hønefoss on a short-term loan, as a replacement for the injured Lars Lafton and Kenneth Di Vita Jensen. Kamara played three matches for Stabæk in 2008, enough to earn him a winners-medal, when the team won Tippeligaen. Kamara's contract expired after the 2008 season, and he wanted to find a new club, even though Stabæk wanted to renew his contract, because he found it too hard to compete with Daniel Nannskog and Veigar Páll Gunnarsson for playing time. After unsuccessful trials with Reggina and Sandefjord, Kamara had gotten an offer from the 2. Divisjon side Bærum but on the last day of the transfer window ahead of the 2009 season, he signed a two-year contract with the Tippeligaen side Strømsgodset. As his wage was only 135,000 kr per year, Kamara had to move back home to his mother.
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