Henri Camara

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Henri Camara
Personnel
birthday May 10, 1977
place of birth Dakar ,  Senegal
size 178 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
ASC Diaraf
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-1999 Racing Strasbourg 0 0(0)
1999-2000 Neuchâtel Xamax 32 (17)
2000-2001 Grasshopper Club Zurich 11 0(3)
2001-2003 CS Sedan 60 (22)
2003-2005 Wolverhampton Wanderers 30 0(7)
2004-2005 →  Celtic Glasgow  (loan) 18 0(8)
2005 →  Southampton FC  (loan) 13 0(4)
2005-2009 Wigan Athletic 69 (20)
2007-2008 →  West Ham United  (Loan) 10 0(0)
2009 →  Stoke City  (loan) 4 0(0)
2009-2010 Sheffield United 23 0(4)
2010-2011 Atromitos Athens 28 0(3)
2011-2014 Panetolikos 102 (29)
2014-2015 AEL Kalloni 13 0(1)
2015 PAS Lamia 1964 9 0(1)
2015-2016 Panetolikos 5 0(0)
2016 Apollo Smyrnis 13 0(6)
2016-2017 Ionikos Nikea 23 (10)
2017-2018 APO Fostiras Tavros FC 2 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
1999-2008 Senegal 99 (29)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

2 Status: end of career

Henri Camara (born May 10, 1977 in Dakar ) is a former Senegalese football player . He is a record international player and record scorer for the Senegalese national team .

Player career

society

Henri Camara began his professional football career in France in 1998 with Racing Strasbourg . After a year without commitment, he moved to the Swiss club Neuchâtel Xamax and, after a strong season with 17 goals in 32 games, to Grasshopper Club Zurich . In the following years he also worked for the French club CS Sedan , the English club Wolverhampton Wanderers and as a loan player for the Scottish series champion Celtic Glasgow . He also played on loan for Southampton FC .

Between 2005 and 2009 he was employed by Wigan Athletic in the Premier League . Camara is an offensive player who is characterized by extreme speed. The Senegalese plays with both feet and has been loaned to league rivals West Ham United and Stoke City .

After more than four months without a new employer, Camara signed a contract with second division Sheffield United until the end of the 2009/10 season. In May 2010 he was also hired for a year with the Greek first division club Atromitos Athens , which he left after a year. From 2011 to 2014 he was under contract with the Greek first division club Panetolikos , for whom he played again in the 2015/16 season after a one-year stopover. After further stations in Greece, Camara ended his career in summer 2018.

National team

For Senegal, Camara took part in the 2002 World Cup and five times in the African Cup of Nations ( 2000 , 2002 , 2004 , 2006 , 2008 ). The performance at the 2002 World Cup, where Senegal made it to the bottom eight, was the greatest success at World Cups so far . In the round of 16, the 2-1 win against Sweden , he scored the interim 1-1 and in the 104th minute the decisive golden goal . He was also named Man of the Match after the game .

Internationally, Camara would have had the opportunity to play for Guinea as his father was born in Guinea . But he decided to play for Senegal because he was born there and he didn't know Guinea very well.

Private

Henri Camara's father is from Guinea and his mother from Senegal . He has a son, Henri Junior (* 2006), with his partner. He belongs to the Susu ethnic group ; although over 99% of them are Muslim, Camara is a devout Christian .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Blades snap up Camara" ( Memento from October 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (sufc.co.uk)
  2. ↑ Football World Cup: Golden Goal! Senegal in the quarterfinals . In: Spiegel Online . June 16, 2002 ( spiegel.de [accessed September 3, 2018]).
  3. ↑ bbc.co.uk: Camara breaks father's heart (Aug. 26, 2004) , accessed September 10, 2018
  4. ^ Biography of Henri Camara ~ Biography. Retrieved September 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Par Arnaud WustLe 21 June 2002 at 00h00: Dieu, le douzième homme. June 20, 2002, accessed July 30, 2019 (fr-fr).
personal data
SURNAME Camara, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Dakar , Senegal