Middlesbrough have revealed defender Sol Bamba has officially joined the club in a player-coach capacity after his recovery from cancer in May.
Bamba, 36, underwent treatment for Non-Hodgkin lymphoma earlier this year, having been diagnosed just before last Christmas.
The news became public in January, and Bamba received several rounds of chemotherapy before briefly returning for Cardiff on the final day of last season.
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