Bobby Zamora

Bobby Zamora
Zamora in the jersey of Fulham FC in 2009
Personnel
Surname	Robert Lester Zamora
birthday	January 16, 1981
place of birth	Barking , London ,  England
size	184 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Senrab FC
	West Ham United
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1999-2000	Bristol Rovers	4 0(0)
2000	→  Bath City  (loan)	6 0(8)
2000-2003	Brighton & Hove Albion	125 (76)
2003-2004	Tottenham Hotspur	16 0(0)
2004-2008	West Ham United	130 (30)
2008–2012	Fulham FC	91 (20)
2012-2015	Queens Park Rangers	83 (12)
2015-2016	Brighton & Hove Albion	26 0(7)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2002	England U-21	6 0(0)
2010-2011	England	2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Lester "Bobby" Zamora (born January 16, 1981 in Barking , London ) is an English football player , on the position of the striker . He has been with Brighton & Hove Albion since 2015 .

Career

A West Ham United fan from an early age, Bobby Zamora began his football career at Senrab FC at a young age before moving to West Ham's famous Academy of Football. In his year he also trained with players like Jlloyd Samuel , Fitz Hall and Paul Konchesky (who later also returned to the "Hammers").

He was then signed by the Bristol Rovers . The club loaned him to Bath City for a month and Brighton & Hove Albion for three months . The striker scored 14 goals in these twelve games. In the summer of 2000 Brighton finally signed him. In the following three years he played 119 games and scored 70 goals. Zamora became a crowd favorite and was called up for the English U-21 team.

In 2003 he moved to Tottenham Hotspur for an estimated fee of one million euros . However, he could not establish himself in the starting line-up and left the club after a year in the direction of West Ham United .

In his first season, Bobby Zamora met twice against Ipswich Town in the second half of the play-off semi-finals. He also scored as the only one in West Ham's win against Preston North End in the Championship PlayOff final at the Millennium Stadium , which West Ham qualified for promotion to the Premier League .

On the first day of the 2006/07 season, the attacker scored a brace against Charlton Athletic . He kissed the club badge at a goal and shouted: "This is my team, this is my fuckin 'team" . That makes the already very popular player at West Ham almost a legend.

Despite his high status, Zamora moved to Fulham in 2008 together with teammate John Paintsil . The transfer fee totaled around six million euros. However, he could no longer build on his performance at West Ham, only scoring two goals in his first season. In July 2009 Fulham had intensive transfer talks with Hull City because of this , but Zamora decided against the offer and stayed with the "Cottagers". In the following first Europa League game against Vėtra Vilnius , he was involved in all three goals of the 3-0 victory.

On January 31, 2012, Bobby Zamora moved to the Queens Park Rangers .

Web links

• Bobby Zamora in the weltfussball.de database
• Bobby Zamora in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lessons from Senrab's soccer school , news.bbc.co.uk
2. ^ Zamora signs in at Spurs ( Memento of September 4, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), thefa.com
3. ↑ Spurs sign Defoe , news.bbc.co.uk
4. ^ Zamora & Paintsil sign for Fulham , news.bbc.co.uk
5. ↑ Zamora Pen's Deal . QPR FC. Archived from the original on February 2, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 31, 2012.