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Kalvin Phillips and Stuart Dallas were among the enormity of players to pay tribute to Sol Bamba after it was confirmed the former Leeds United captain had died aged 39. News emerged on Saturday evening that Bamba had passed after falling ill in Turkey, where he had been working as a technical director at Turkish second-tier side Adanaspor before his death on Saturday night. Bamba, who was just 39 at the time of his death, had recovered from non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2021. That didn’t stop the towering centre-back from returning to football with Middlesbrough after his battle. Bamba leaves behin…

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