Titi Camara

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Titi Camara
Personal information
Full name Aboubacar Sidiki Camara
Date of birth (1972-11-17) 17 November 1972 (age 51)
Place of birth Conakry, Guinea
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Striker
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1990–1995 Saint-Étienne 94 (16)
1995–1997 Lens 111 (14)
1997–1999 Marseille 61 (12)
1999–2000 Liverpool 33 (9)
2000–2003 West Ham United 14 (0)
2003 → Al-Ittihad (loan) 0 (0)
2003–2004 Al-Siliya 20 (14)
2005–2006 Amiens 26 (9)
Total359(74)
International career
1992–2004 Guinea 38 (23)
Managerial career
2009 Guinea
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Aboubacar Sidiki "Titi" Camara (born 17 November 1972) is a Guinean former professional footballer who played as a striker. He was also the coach of the Guinea national team, which he captained and played for. He was also the Guinea sports minister, before being replaced in October 2012. He is best known for his stint with Liverpool in the 1999–2000 season, where he scored 10 goals in 37 games in all competitions, memorably scoring the winner in a game against Arsenal at Highbury.

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Club career

Early career

Camara played for Saint-Étienne, Lens and Marseille in France, (playing in the 1999 UEFA Cup Final for the latter) before being transferred to Liverpool.

Liverpool

A cult hero and crowd favourite at Anfield, [1] Camara is best remembered for playing at Anfield against West Ham in October 1999, the morning after the death of his father, scoring the winning goal and then dropping to his knees in front of the Anfield Road stand with tears flowing. [1] He also managed to score in three successive Premier League games for the Reds in late autumn of 1999. [2] On 13 February, he scored the winner at Highbury, leading Liverpool to a 1–0 win over Arsenal. [3] Despite his short spell at Liverpool, he was voted in 91st position in the 2006 poll "100 Players Who Shook The Kop", which was conducted by the official Liverpool Football Club web site. Camara's placing made him the second highest placed African player, behind Bruce Grobbelaar. [4]

West Ham United

Signed by manager Harry Redknapp [5] on 21 December 2000 for a fee of £1.5 million which, depending on other factors, could have risen to £2.6 million, Camara announced, "I've come to West Ham to play, play, play – and score, score, score. If it was a question of money, I could have stayed at Liverpool and picked it up. I need to play, and if I don't it is totally pointless." [6] Making his West Ham debut on 23 December 2000 in a 2–1 away defeat to Leicester City, [7] Camara went on to play only fourteen games, in all competitions, without scoring at all. [8]

Al-Ittihad

In January 2003 Camara was sent out on loan to Al-Ittihad for the remainder of the 2002–03 season. [9]

Al-Siliya

Following West Ham's relegation in 2003 from the Premier League Camara left the club for Al-Siliya [10] after his contract was terminated by mutual consent.

International career

Titi Camara was a stalwart of the Guinea team from the early 1990s until the early 2000s. He is regarded as a key protagonist in Guinea's return to respectability in African football and played for his country at the 2004 African Nations Cup, where he scored 3 goals in the group stage, which meant he finished just one goal behind the leading scores of the tournament.

Scores and results list Guinea's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Camara goal.
List of international goals scored by Titi Camara
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetitionRef.
114 July 1991 Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry, GuineaFlag of Mali.svg  Mali 2-02-1 1992 African Cup of Nations qualification [11]
216 August 1992 Stade Omnisports Idriss Mahamat Ouya, N'Djamena, ChadFlag of Chad.svg  Chad 2-03-0 1994 African Cup of Nations qualification [12]
320 December 1992Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry, GuineaFlag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 3-04-0 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification [13]
44-0
52 May 1993Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry, GuineaFlag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe 1-03-01994 FIFA World Cup qualification [14]
611 July 1993 Intwari Stadium, Bujumbura, BurundiFlag of Burundi.svg  Burundi 1-12-21994 African Cup of Nations qualification [15]
718 January 1994Conakry, GuineaFlag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast —3-0 Friendly [16]
829 March 1994 Stade Olympique de Sousse, Sousse, TunisiaFlag of Senegal.svg  Senegal 1-01-2 1994 African Cup of Nations [17]
94 September 1994 Botswana National Stadium, Gaborone, BotswanaFlag of Botswana.svg  Botswana 1-01-0 1996 African Cup of Nations qualification [18]
1016 October 1994Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry, GuineaFlag of Angola.svg  Angola 2-03-11996 African Cup of Nations qualification [19]
1130 July 1995Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry, GuineaFlag of Mali.svg  Mali 1-14-11996 African Cup of Nations qualification [20]
122-1
131 June 1996 Estádio 24 de Setembro, Bissau, Guinea-BissauFlag of Guinea-Bissau.svg  Guinea-Bissau 1-22-3 1998 FIFA World Cup qualification [21]
142-2
1510 November 1996Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry, GuineaFlag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 1-13-11998 FIFA World Cup qualification [22]
168 January 1997 Stade de la Paix, Bouaké, Ivory CoastFlag of Cote d'Ivoire.svg  Ivory Coast 1-01-2Friendly [23]
175 April 1997 National Stadium, Lagos, NigeriaFlag of Nigeria.svg  Nigeria 1-21-21998 FIFA World Cup qualification [24]
1823 April 2000Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry, GuineaFlag of Uganda.svg  Uganda 1-03-0 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification [25]
1918 June 2000Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry, GuineaFlag of Zimbabwe.svg  Zimbabwe 2-03-02002 FIFA World Cup qualification [26]
2016 July 2000Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry, GuineaFlag of The Gambia.svg  Gambia 1-02-0 2002 African Cup of Nations qualification [27]
2113 January 2002 Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium, Rabat, MoroccoFlag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 1-11-2Friendly [28]
228 September 2002Stade du 28 Septembre, Conakry, GuineaFlag of Liberia.svg  Liberia 1-03-0 2004 African Cup of Nations qualification [29]
2320 January 2004Stade Gérard Rossi, Sainte-Maxime, FranceFlag of Burkina Faso.svg  Burkina Faso 1-01-0Friendly [30]
2425 January 2004 El Menzah Stadium, Tunis, TunisiaFlag of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2003-2006).svg  DR Congo 1-12-1 2004 African Cup of Nations [31]
2528 January 2004 15 October Stadium, Bizerte, TunisiaFlag of Rwanda.svg  Rwanda 1-01-12004 African Cup of Nations [32]
261 February 2004 Hammadi Agrebi Stadium, Tunis, TunisiaFlag of Tunisia.svg  Tunisia 1-11-12004 African Cup of Nations [33]

Coaching career

In December 2005, he was linked with the vacant manager's job with the Guinea national team. On 13 May 2009, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, the President of Guinea publicly announced that he wanted him to manage the national team. At the end of May 2009, Camara was named the National Technical Director (NTC). On 9 June 2009, Camara was named the head coach of the Syli National to succeed Robert Nouzaret. [34] Camara was serving in dual capacities of NTC and head coach of the Syli National. On 15 September 2009, three months following his nomination as head coach of the Syli National, Camara was replaced by Mamadi Souaré, a former Captain of the Syli National, following poor results, lack of cooperation/understanding with certain conspicuous members of the Guinean Football Federation (FGF), and absence of "cordial" relations with certain key elements of the Syli National. [35]

Breach of contract

In September 2003, alleging breach of contract, Camara sued West Ham United. [36] In 2006, West Ham successfully defended the High Court breach of contract claim brought by Camara. [37]

Minister of Sports

On 28 December 2010, Camara was made Sports Minister of Guinea by newly elected president Alpha Condé, making him the country's first ex-sportsman to hold a government post. He was forced out of his post on 5 October 2012 in a government reshuffle. [38]

Personal life

Camara holds Guinean and French nationalities. [39]

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