Zoumana Camara
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Camara playing for Paris Saint-Germain (2015)
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Zoumana Camara | ||
| Date of birth | 3 April 1979 | ||
| Place of birth | Colombes, France | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Centre back | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Paris Saint-Germain (assistant) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Racing Paris | |||
| Saint-Étienne | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1996–1998 | Saint-Étienne | 32 | (1) |
| 1998–2000 | Internazionale | 0 | (0) |
| 1999 | → Empoli (loan) | 12 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | → Bastia (loan) | 27 | (1) |
| 2000–2001 | Marseille | 42 | (1) |
| 2002–2004 | Lens | 14 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | → Leeds United (loan) | 13 | (1) |
| 2004–2007 | Saint-Étienne | 108 | (0) |
| 2007–2015 | Paris Saint-Germain | 153 | (4) |
| Total | 401 | (8) | |
| National team | |||
| 2001 | France | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Zoumana Camara (born 3 April 1979) is a French retired professional footballer who played as a central defender.
After starting out at Saint-Étienne, he went on to amass Ligue 1 totals of 344 games and six goals over the course of 15 seasons, representing mainly in the competition Paris Saint-Germain and winning eight major titles with that club. He also had a brief spell in England with Leeds United.
Camara appeared for France at the 2001 Confederations Cup.
Born in Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, Camara made his professional debuts at only 17, appearing in two Ligue 2 seasons with AS Saint-Étienne. In the 1998 summer he was purchased by Inter Milan in Italy, but only managed to appear in two Coppa Italia matches with the Nerazzurri, also being loaned twice during his two-year spell: after a five-month stint with Empoli FC (suffering relegation from Serie A), he spent one season back in his country with SC Bastia, helping the Corsicans to a 10th-place finish in Ligue 1.
After one and a half seasons with Olympique de Marseille – one as a starter, the other as backup – Camara joined RC Lens. He spent the 2003–04 season on loan to English club Leeds United, scoring in a 3–2 away win against Middlesbrough on 30 August 2003 but eventually being relegated from the Premier League. Two months before leaving the Whites he blasted the organization, claiming he would not have accepted the club's offer had he known about its financial predicament.
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