Alhassan A. Kamara (born 13 January 1993), commonly known as Crespo, is a retired Sierra Leonean

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Career

Kamara started his career with FC Kallon and joined

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, competing in

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, on 29 July 2011. He scored five goals in 10 games during his five months on loan at Boden. The striker signed a contract on 5 October 2011 with

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. During the first half of the 2012 season, he made 11 appearances for AIK. After the summer he was loaned out to

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, where he made four goal in eight appearances. On 24 January 2013 it was announced that he again was loaned to Örebro SK, for the rest of 2013. After the season Örebro SK decided to buy him from AIK, where he struggled to make an impact after failing to score in fourteen league appearances. After getting injured early in the 2014 season, Kamara scored his first goal on 9 August against

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. He then proceeded to score, ending the season with 14 goals in the 12 last games despite often being substituted off in the second half (he played 90 minutes in 7 out of 19 games). He averaged one goal every 65 minutes in the last 12 games of the season, finishing with a hat trick in 7 minutes against

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. On 2 June 2012 he made his senior international debut for

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in a

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game against

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. On 2 September 2018, Greek

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club

Panetolikos Panetolikos Football Club ( el, ΠΑΕ Παναιτωλικός), or with its full name Panetolikós Yimnastikós Filekpedeftikós Síllogos ( el, Παναιτωλικός Γυμναστικός Φιλεκπαιδευτικός Σύλλογος'' ...

officially announced the signing of Sierra Leonean international Alhassan Kamara Crespo until the end of 2019-20 season. The 25-year-old striker was recently released from Häcken, after two successful seasons at the Swedish

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. After a spell with

IFK Värnamo IFK Värnamo is a Swedish football club located in Värnamo. The club plays in the Allsvenskan, the top tier of Swedish football. The most famous player from the club is Jonas Thern, who was captain of the Swedish national football team when they ...

, Kamara announced his retirement from football on 23 September 2021 after several years of problems with a knee injury.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kamara, Alhassan A. 1993 births Living people Sierra Leonean Muslims Men's association football forwards Sierra Leonean men's footballers Sierra Leonean expatriate men's footballers Sierra Leone men's international footballers AIK Fotboll players F.C. Kallon players Bodens BK players Örebro SK players BK Häcken players Panetolikos F.C. players Halmstads BK players IFK Värnamo players Allsvenskan players Superettan players Ettan Fotboll players Super League Greece players Expatriate men's footballers in Sweden Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Sierra Leonean expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Sierra Leonean expatriate sportspeople in Greece