Jamie Vardy

Jamie Vardy
Jamie Vardy (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Jamie Richard Vardy
birthday	January 11, 1987
place of birth	Sheffield ,  England
size	178 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2002	Sheffield Wednesday
2003-2007	Stocksbridge Park Steels
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007-2010	Stocksbridge Park Steels
2010-2011	Halifax Town FC	37 0(27)
2011–2012	Fleetwood Town	36 0(31)
2012–	Leicester City	262 (117)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2015-2018	England	26 00(7)
1 Only league games are given. As of February 1, 2020 2 Status: end of career

Jamie Vardy Richard (* 11. January 1987 in Sheffield as James Richard Gill ) is an English footballer . The striker has been under contract with the English first division club Leicester City since 2012 .

Career

societies

Vardy at Stocksbridge Park Steels (2007; top, third from right)

Vardy in the Leicester City jersey (2017)

Raised in a working-class family, Vardy grew up in Hillsborough before starting his athletic career at Sheffield Wednesday's youth academy . At the age of 15, he was retired there because he was found to be too small, whereupon he first stopped playing football and worked in a carbon fiber factory. During this time he got into a brawl while visiting a club, as a result of which he was imposed a curfew for a limited period of six months due to bodily harm , as well as the wearing of an electronic ankle cuff .

In 2003, a year after leaving Sheffield Wednesday, Vardy resumed playing football with the amateur club Stocksbridge Park Steels . At the beginning he had to wear his ankle cuffs during the games and sometimes leave away games earlier in order to comply with his curfew. In 107 games for Stocksbridge , Vardy scored 66 goals before moving to FC Halifax Town , also playing in the seventh-rate Northern Premier League , in June 2010 . There he contributed 27 league goals to winning the 2010/11 championship. At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, Vardy moved to the fifth division Fleetwood Town on August 26, 2011 for a transfer fee of 200,000 euros . There he scored 31 league goals and won the National League with the team .

On May 18, 2012 Vardy moved to the then second division Leicester City and signed a three-year contract. In the 2012/13 Football League Championship, which is three leagues higher , he scored four goals in 24 games and 16 goals in the 2013/14 season . After promotion to the Premier League for the 2014/15 season , he played 34 times and scored five goals. In the following season he doubled his goal count after ten of 38 games compared to the previous season. Between 29 August and 28 November 2015 (4th to 14th day of the Premier League) met Vardy in eleven consecutive league games at least once, surpassing the record of the former player of Manchester United , Ruud van Nistelrooy , which a series of ten Games between March 22 and August 23, 2003 (the last eight games of the 2002/03 season and the first two of the 2003/04 season ). In addition, he became English champion with Leicester in 2016 . In early May 2016, Vardy was named England's Footballer of the Year . At the age of 33 in the 2019/20 season, Vardy became the Premier League's oldest top scorer (23 goals). He broke the record previously held by Didier Drogba from the 2009/10 season, who was then 32 years old (29 goals).

Vardy has a contract until June 30, 2023.

National team

Vardy (left) at the 2018 World Cup against Belgium's Leander Dendoncker

Vardy was appointed to the English national football team for the first time on May 21, 2015 for a friendly against Ireland and for the qualifier for the 2016 European Championship against Slovenia . He made his 0-0 debut against Ireland on June 7, 2015 when he came on for Wayne Rooney . He scored his first goal for the national team on March 26, 2016 in Berlin in a 3-2 win over Germany with the goal to make it 2-2.

At the European Football Championship in France in 2016 , he was included in the English squad . His first appearance was against Wales in the second group game when he was substituted on at half-time when he was 1-0 down. After a short time he managed to equalize 1: 1. He was then on the starting line-up for the first time against Slovakia. He stayed on the bench in the round of 16, but when Iceland continued to lead 2-1, he was brought into play in the final third. But this time there was no turning point and England was eliminated.

He was included in the English squad at the 2018 World Cup in Russia .

On August 28, 2018, Vardy announced his retirement from the national team.

successes

Leicester City

• English champion : 2016
• English second division champions : 2014

Personal awards

• Premier League top scorer : 2020
• Premier League Player of the Season : 2016
• Premier League Player of the Month : October 2015 , November 2015 , April 2019 , October 2019
• England's Footballer of the Year : 2016

Others

In May 2016, Vardy married his longtime girlfriend.

In 2015 he opened his own youth academy called "V9 Academy". Weekly camps are held here, in which 60 young talents are trained by coaches without a contract and receive tips. With regular invitations for talent scouts, Vardy wants to enable young players to be discovered at a comparatively old age, as he himself was underestimated at the beginning of his career.

Vardy consumes snus , a form of oral tobacco widely used in Scandinavia .

Web links

Commons : Jamie Vardy  - collection of images

• Jamie Vardy in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jamie Vardy in the soccerway.com database
• Jamie Vardy in the soccerbase.com database
• Profile at Leicester City
• Profile on the website of the FA (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Frank Worrall: Jamie Vardy - The Boy from Nowhere: The True Story of the Genius Behind Leicester City's 5000-1 Winning Season . Kings Road Publishing, 2016, ISBN 978-1-78606-189-8 ( google.de [accessed June 15, 2020]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} England's new super striker Jamie Vardy ; 11Freunde.de, accessed on April 29, 2016
3. ↑ FC HALIFAX TOWN SEASON 2010-11 ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), shaymendownsouth.co.uk
4. ↑ Vardy Joins Fleetwood ( Memento of September 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (The Football Conference)
5. ↑ Fleetwood Town's Cod Army swim into the Football League (BBC Sport)
6. ↑ Leicester City sign Fleetwood striker Jamie Vardy (BBC Sport)
7. ↑ Coach Ranieri about Vardy: "If Real wants him, they have the money" ; transfermarkt.de, published and accessed on October 27, 2015
8. ↑ Vardy breaks van Nisterooys goal record ; sport1.de, published and accessed on November 28, 2015
9. ↑ Premier League: Vardy England's Footballer of the Year on spiegel.de on May 2, 2016, accessed on May 3, 2016
10. ↑ Premier League: Jamie Vardy oldest top scorer in history. July 27, 2020, accessed on July 28, 2020 . 
11. ↑ Vardy stays with Leicester. August 26, 2020, accessed on August 27, 2020 . 
12. ^ Match Report on the FA website , accessed March 30, 2016
13. ↑ bbc.com: Jamie Vardy and Gary Cahill step aside from international football (Aug. 28, 2018) , accessed September 9, 2018
14. ↑ Claire Rutter: First look at Jamie Vardy's bride Rebekah's stunning wedding gown. mirror, May 30, 2016, accessed January 5, 2017 . 
15. ^ 10 Things You Probably Didn't Know About Jamie Vardy. Retrieved January 5, 2017 . 
16. ^ Aaron Flanagan: Jamie Vardy pictured with chewing tobacco in hand. mirror, June 14, 2016, accessed January 5, 2017 .