Hassane Kamara (born 5 March 1994) is a professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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. Born in France, he plays for the Ivory Coast national team.

Club career

Châteauroux

Kamara is a youth exponent of

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. He made his

Ligue 2 Ligue 2 (, League 2), also known as Ligue 2 BKT due to sponsorship reasons, is a French professional football league. The league serves as the second division of French football and is one of two divisions making up the Ligue de Football Prof ...

debut for the club on 4 April 2014 in a match against Clermont. On 2 May 2014, he scored his first league goal in a match against Laval.

Reims

In August 2015, Kamara signed with

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before joining

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on loan. He helped Reims win the

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, achieving promotion to

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for the 2018–19 season.

Nice

On 26 June 2020, Kamara signed with

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on a contract until June 2025. He scored his first Watford goal in the 5-1 defeat to the league leaders

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. On 7 May 2022, in the game against their manager

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's return to Selhurst Park, Kamara was sent off by two yellow cards after in the first half he gave away a penalty due to a handball. His team would go on to lose 1-0 against

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and be relegated from the

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for the fourth time.

Udinese

On 23 August 2022, Kamara signed for

club

for an undisclosed fee, returning on loan to Watford for the 2022–23 season.

International career

Kamara holds

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, Malian, Gambian and Ivorian nationalities. He rejected a callup to the Gambia national team in March 2017. He debuted for the Ivory Coast national team in a friendly 2–1 win over

Burkina Faso Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa, bordered by Mali to the northwest, Niger to the northeast, Benin to the southeast, Togo and Ghana to the south, and Ivory Coast to the southwest. It covers an area of 274,223 km2 (105,87 ...

on 5 June 2021.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Reims *

: 2017–18

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kamara, Hassane Living people 1994 births Footballers from Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis Ivorian men's footballers Ivory Coast men's international footballers French men's footballers Malian men's footballers Gambian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders LB Châteauroux players Stade de Reims players US Créteil-Lusitanos players OGC Nice players Watford F.C. players Udinese Calcio players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Championnat National players Championnat National 2 players Championnat National 3 players Premier League players Serie A players French expatriate men's footballers Ivorian expatriate men's footballers Ivorian people of Malian descent Ivorian people of Gambian descent Expatriate men's footballers in England French expatriate sportspeople in England Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in England Expatriate men's footballers in Italy French expatriate sportspeople in Italy Ivorian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Black French sportspeople English Football League players 21st-century French sportsmen