It is not every day that you are going to a football match and that you end up with an Oscar in your hands. But then it is not every day that a story like that of Jamie Vardy arrives.
Those of us inside the King Power Stadium press box in May 2017, a year after the sensational victory of the title of Leicester City, made one of the famous bronze figurines which belonged to the co -producer of the King’s speech which planned to take the history of the Vardy oppressed in Hollywood.
Although this tale has not yet reached the big screen – although a Netflix documentary is soon on our screens – Vardy continued to write a chapter after the chapter, scene after stage.
Title of the Premier League, FA Cup, Community Shield, Champions League Quarter-Final and two championship crowns.
The 15th top scorer of the Premier League with 143 goals, the most by all the players since he has 309 with 109, a winner of the Golden Boot and the man who broke the record of the current manager Ruud Van Nistelrooy de Score in 11 successive games in the Premier League.
An international in England with 26 caps, which played in a European championship and a World Cup.
Jamie Vardy won the title of Premier League, FA Cup, Community Shield and two championship crowns during her incredible time in Leicester City
Mail Sport understands that Leicester allowed Vardy to make his own decision on his future
All this of The Skinny Lad of Sheffield that Leicester signed in the city of Fleetwood not in Ligue for 1 million pounds Sterling 13 years ago.
And yet, all the stories must end and Thursday, Vardy revealed that it was finally time to say goodbye to Leicester. He will leave, in the opinion of this writer, as the greatest player of the club.
“For Leicester fans, I emptied that this day is coming, but I knew it was going to eventually happen,” said Vardy on social networks. “I spent 13 incredible years in this club with great success. Some stockings but the majority were high, but it is finally time to call it one day, which devastates me, but I think that the timing is right.
Mail Sport understands that Leicester allowed Vardy to make his own decision on his future and the attacker said it was the right time to say goodbye. We think it is open to stay in the Premier League if luck arises. He will not run for offers abroad.
“I want to continue playing and do what I like the most-score goals,” he added on Instagram. “I may be 38 years old but I still have the desire and the ambition to achieve much more.”
Even in a terrible team of Leicester who has just undergone his second relegation in three seasons, he still succeeded seven league goals.
What is the secret? It is the same Vardy who drinks three Red Bulls before the matches with his omelettes of cheese and Ham, mixed skittles and vodka, a port drunk with a Lucozade bottle and SNU tobacco pockets stuck under his upper lip.
Beyond these quirks, it is also a Vardy who has built a cryotherapy room in his house to stand in shape in recent years.
Vardy embodied what a Leicester City player means during the most successful period in the history of the club
More than anything, he always cares about it. It was Vardy, now Club Captain, who apologized for the “S *** show” of the relegation of Leicester after being confirmed this weekend.
This is part of what is the start of Vardy an emotional moment for the supporters of Leicester. He is the last of the defending winners from, the final link on the field between the glorious past and the dark present.
It was Vardy who, for so long, embodied what it meant to play for Leicester, a team that has already taken great pleasure in hitting over their weight. He was a player who, before becoming a professional, worked in a factory making medical splints, published by Wednesday at the age of 16, and whose trip to the Premier League came via Stocksbridge Park Steels, Halifax and Fleetwood before becoming the first non-binding player to a million books in history.
They no longer make footballers like Vardy. It was the Vardy who has already presented himself to a training in a complete Spiderman costume, the Vardy who once filled a bunch of eggs around the car of Fleetwood chief, and the Vardy who learns foreign swear to insult center rivals.
It is the Vardy who likes to celebrate in front of fans outside, beat his wings of eagle against Crystal Palace, howl in front of the Wolves supporters or simply point to the first league badge to remind the fans of Tottenham how many titles there were.
The crowds of the opposition have never learned to stop singing on the role of his wife Rebekah in the infamous trial of Wagatha Christie with Coleen Rooney because, like Clockwork, he marks and returns it immediately.
They certainly do not make footballers so loyal. Vardy refused the chance to join Arsenal after the victory for the title and signed a new contract when they were relegated two seasons ago.
These are not always incredible heights. Vardy had trouble in his first season and the former manager of Leicester, Nigel Pearson, and the late Craig Shakespeare had to leave him football to become a representative of the Ibiza party.
English training buffoonery and pre-match meals were legendary in football
Vardy refused Arsenal’s offers and signed a new contract with the Foxes when they were relegated two years ago
Since Vardy made his premier debut only, Harry Kane and Mohamed Salah have scored more goals in competition
A year before the triumph of the title of Leicester, he was sentenced to a fine by the club after having used a racial insult against a Japanese in a casino.
During his non-free days, he wore an electronic label after being found guilty of assault after defending his friend who was mistreated for having worn hearing aid and often had to be substituted early and jump over a fence in a flight car to avoid breaking his curfew.
Vardy leaves Leicester as one of the greatest attackers in the era of the Premier League. He was 27 years old when he made his debut but, since then, only Harry Kane and Mohamed Salah have scored more goals in the competition – Vardy spent one of these seasons in the championship.
He is the player that Michael Owen once ridiculously said “not a natural finisher”, but then scored incredible goals like his thunderous strike of 30 yards against Liverpool, his superb volley on the shoulder of Riyad Mahrez’s pass against West Brom, his little finish for England against Germany.
Erling Haaland revealed in 2022 that he was watching YouTube videos of the Vardy movement because he was “the best in the world” to run behind defenses.
Vardy has five games to say goodbye. The man who inspired the filmmakers to bring their small bronze statues to the stadium which, for 13 years, he made his own will, one day, his own giant outside of its doors.
