Robert Lester Zamora is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He began his career at Bristol Rovers before joining Brighton & Hove Albion. Zamora then moved to Tottenham Hotspur for a £1.5million fee in July 2003. In January 2004, he joined West Ham United in a deal which saw Jermain Defoe go the other way. He played for West Ham for five years and won promotion to the Premier League. In 2008, Zamora joined Fulham and gained a call-up to the England national team. He moved to Queens Park Rangers in January 2012 and returned to Brighton in 2015. He retired from football in December 2016 and is now working as a football pundit for BT Sport.
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Robert Lester Zamora is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. He began his career at Bristol Rovers before joining Brighton & Hove Albion. Zamora then moved to Tottenham Hotspur for a £1.5million fee in July 2003. In January 2004, he joined West Ham United in a deal which saw Jermain Defoe go the other way. He played for West Ham for five years and won promotion to the Premier League. In 2008, Zamora joined Fulham and gained a call-up to the England national team. He moved to Queens Park Rangers in January 2012 and returned to Brighton in 2015. He retired from football in December 2016 and is now working as a football pundit for BT Sport. He is also the brother of former West Ham striker Andy Zamora, who played for the club between 2003 and 2007. Zamoras is a former England Under 21 international. He has also represented the Republic of Ireland at under-21 level and the Netherlands at Under 21 level. He was born in Barking, east London, and is a lifelong West Ham fan. He started his footballing career as an apprentice at the club’s Academy of Football but was released from the club on the same year group as Jlloyd Samuel, Fitz Hall and Paul Konchesky. He made a total of six substitute appearances for Bristol Rovers in all competitions, before joining Bath City on a one-month loan in early 2000, where he scored 11 goals in eight appearances. In August 2000, he made a permanent move to Brighton for £100,000 fee.
During his tenure he quickly established himself as a prolific goalscorer. He helped Brighton win two successive championships as the team won promotion into what became the Championship. In the 2004–05 season, he scored 13 goals, including one in the first leg of the Championship play-off semi-final against Ipswich Town and the only goal in West Ham’s 1–0 victory over Preston North End in the 2005 Championship play–off Final. In October 2006, he signed a four-year contract with the team, and extended it in October 2006. He said: ‘I’m delighted to have spent my long-term future at Upton Park for almost three years now. This is my club and there is no other place I would rather be wearing a claret and blue shirt’ In January 2007, he ended the season with a controversial goal against Blackburn Rovers. However, he did not score again until January 2007 with 11 goals against Blackburn. He also played in the FA Cup final, for which he received an FA Cup runners-up medal, missing a penalty in the shootout against Liverpool. In March 2008, he played regularly but scored only four goals for Fulham in his first season. He then joined QPR for a fee of £2.5m in January 2011. In April 2012, he moved to Brighton again for a second time. He returned to QPR in January 2015 and played in their Premier League campaign.
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