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Mellissa Dzinzi

Chris Kamara's life from his diagnosis and illness to wife, Yorkshire home and singing prowess

Many people will know former Leeds United star Chris Kamara for his punditry but there are aspects of his life that some fans may not even know. Chris Kamara was born in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, and is not known to share many details about his private life.

Kammy, as he is affectionately known by fans, began his football career back in 1974 at Portsmouth but before being signed to the club, he was in the Royal Navy which he joined at age of 16.

However, most recently, Mr Kamara has been in the spotlight as he opened up about his apraxia of speech diagnosis in a new ITV show called Chris Kamara: Lost for Words. The condition is a speech sound disorder whereby someone has trouble saying what they want to say consistently and correctly.

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