Vardy’s story. He collected prostheses and drunk every Sunday, and then became an APL champion | Football

Jamie Vardi announced that Leicester will leave At the end of the season, and for the fox « it is even more than the loss of the last player of the Golden Team-2016. Vardi is a long football player in the history of the club as a whole.

Champion He tells his path from the mud in the prince – a road that is almost certainly screened in the foreseeable future.

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« Playing Stoxbridge is a huge challenge. There is a stadium on top of a hill, and the weather is snow, it is rain. It is psychologically difficult to just go out on the field. And playing there against adult men is hardening, » says Steve Adams.

At that time, he was a coach of the Sheffield’s youth.

A bad trainer.

In addition to Jamie Vardi, he put Danny Ker’s subtitious for the door, and he became the star of the rugby national team of England.

Who became Vardi – you know.

Well, Adams trains the Parkheit Amfielder in Sheffield and is justified:

« Even when Jamie got to the base of Stoxbridge, there were no signs of what would happen. But I am proud of what he knew him as a player in the Northern Unibond Conference. »

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« Jamie was disappointed in football, like most children who are expelled from the academies. They live a dream and do not know what to do when she breaks, » Len Kurtis, Vikrsley owner, shares.

Yeah, before Stoxbridge Vardi visited there.

Outside was 2003, Jamie was 16 years old and probably knew that the ordinary life of the working class was ahead of the ordinary life-a factory, a pub, and on a weekend exit to Gillsboro with friends.

This is how his parents, their parents, their parents lived.

« He did not like everything, but we just hugged him. He was nervous, did not see the way. Teamwork taught him to be part of something more, » Kurtis says.

It was the 8th division of English football, in which the 4 highest leagues are professional, and then playing semi-profile and amateurs.

Vicersley is lovers.

Stoxbridge – too.

In order not to be on the street, Vardi got a factory that produced medical prostheses. Five days a week, full rate.

« How quiet he was.

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Galifax from the 6th Division signed Vardi in 2010 until he continued to go to the factory.

Not so easy to adjust to the match after a 8-hour shift.

Vardi drew energy from energy.

He still says that he drinks three Red Bull banks on the day of matches – one morning, the other before training and the third just before going out. The amount comes out 240 mg of caffeine – with them Vardi does not stop 90 minutes.

It was already in Galifax. The defenders did not see such pace, were not ready for him-and he scored 26 goals in 37 matches, taking his to the 5th division.

« And we have considered it earlier, but Galifax wanted 150 thousand. Everything has decided our ambitions to increase, » Vice president Flitwood Phil Brown recalls.

Flitwood-for reference-was in the 5th Division somewhere as an arsenal in the 1st.

Vardi came to them in a cheap T -shirt and crumpled jeans. He looked indifferent – as if he had done something similar regularly, although in fact it was his first « work » player for a full day.

And in the evening, without delay, the debut in the match against York.

« It was thin. Nobody knew him, everyone thought, » Who was it? « He was not like a regular football player of our level. In a few days we realized what and what to do, » – said Danny Moore, who was in the flight.

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Getting rid of the plant, Jamie broke at the speed of all in a row.

He played heartily – and he kihifs too.

A shy boy was in the past. In Flitwood Vardi, friends were mocking his socks, gloves and panties of partners, and once wrapped the car chef in a food film before his birthday.

Outside the field they knew that Vardi was drinking, but it was a semi -profile, and the new skeletons just hid in the closet to the old ones.

Moreover, the game went.

« The first thing that was striking at once is his speed. The defenders were terrified. He gave them 10 yards for the forces, but it was still easy to overtake, » says the record holder Flitwood Nathan Pond.

He played from Vardi almost in each of the 36 matches of the 2011/12 conference, in which he scored 31 goals.

And he was also on the field on January 7, 2012, when Flitwood opposed the elite Blackpool in the Cup of England, and although he conceded 1: 5, Vardi scored a brilliant goal.

Blackpool’s coach Ian Holloveva went to the field immediately after the whistle and said he would pay for « that attacker » 1 million pounds.

Vardi was already 24 years old, but Hollowa did not go around.

« The proposal then also came from West Hema. We said Jamie that he could not go in the midst of the season, he needed to complete his work. Instead, we increased his salary and promised to let go in the summer if someone repeated Gollovoy’s offer, » Brown explains.

Wow semi -profile – they gave up a million!

However, the decision was justified – they still climbed to the professional league 2 as they wanted.

The Vardi, meanwhile, lined up the queue, and the Leicester, who performed in the championship, ahead of everyone.

« One million pounds for a player who never played football professionally. Lord have mercy! » – It was the most popular comment on the « fox » page on Twitter.

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This time he was already excited. Too big jump.

In Vardi, they did not find the right shape and presented in some strange thin. So he looked even more amateur from Sheffield streets, which he was.

Jamie Vardi after moving to Leicester

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Agent John Morris sat nearby, who believed in Vardi in Galifax. Their story is almost the Hollywood « Jerry Magweyr ». If Jamie is filmed, Morris will have a lot in it.

The first question: « Are you familiar with Nigel Pearson? »

At one time, he was Captain Sheffield Vennesey, and now Vardi passed to Lester, who trained his former idol.

« But not so that. Well, it was once I ran out on Gillsboro during the match and attacked him. »

The second question is about the electronic bracelet for hooliganism in 2007. Even Vardi’s partners did not know. I had to pull out the old shit – as a friend got into a fight in a bar, and he connected.

Morris glanced at the reporters, but they seemed to understand. This is taught in the last class of La Masia that the media did not have media. He said he was accustomed to the street.

And played the same.

Within a month in the championship he scored three times, as usual running behind the backs of protection.

Further, however, the rivals were used to maneuver, and Jamie had no others, got into a crisis, was injured, which suspiciously did not heal for a long time.

The physiotherapist Dave Rennie took Vardi to the side to ask what is the matter. It turned out that he drinks three bottles of vodka during the weekend, eating some skittles.

There was something to do with that.

Vardi came to Pearson and asked him to release him to Flitwood, because he felt in the championship in his place. In response – categorical « no ». He did not believe in himself, but he was believed by coaches.

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They did not miss.

Already in the next championship-2013/14, Lester broke a record, scoring 102 points, and Vardi scored 16 goals.

This is his ball at Blackbne’s goal, who brought « fox » to the APL for the first time since 2003.

And his first exit in the start of the APL – and the classic. Mu was 3: 1 on « King Power Stadium » with a skilled goal of Mary, but then Vardi scored himself and gave two goals. 5: 3!

The team was already played by Casper Schmehal, Ves Morgan, Danny Dinkvter, and Riyad Marez was still a larger bench like a dark horse.

« Did you come up with a goal in advance? » The press asked in Vardi.

« No. But I am sure that something is sure to fall. Something stupid, » – not too serious attitude towards himself is one of his greatest virtues forever.

Although it would seem after everything he succeeded …

It is not a joke, he scored 23 goals in the Championship season Lester-2016, including in 11 matches in a row, breaking the record ore van Nisstelroy.

He scored it at Liverpool’s goal – one of the emblematic heads in the history of the APL.

He played at the World Cup and European Championships – and he scored Welsh in Euro.

He became the best Bombardr of the 2019/20 APL, hit 23 goals in 33 years, and in a year he won the Cup of England.

He scored 100 heads in the APL faster than Wayne Rune, Romel Lukaka, Didier Drogba, Jermein Defoe, with 32 from the first hundred-at the Top-6 goal.

In the first 200 matches in the elite Vardi scored every 166 minutes – this is better than in Andy Cole and Robbie Fowler. Michael Owen was even envied a little, such as Jamie, no natural finisher. Another on the site of Vardi would answer, but his self -irony on the spot:

« You say I’m the 28th player who scored 100 goals in the APL, right? »

« Yes, » the reporter confirmed.

« You know what that means? » – Vardi laughed. The journalist only shrugged.

« One in the season, that’s what. »

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He changed unknown in another – broke the amateur and became a professional.

Already in the pandemic reporters who came to Vardi at an interview did not see him at home and hint at alcohol, but there was a cryomer.

Jamie himself went in the garden, the hobby started a vegetable, and his children were waiting for a house, because his father likes to solve mathematical problems with them:

« At school most of all subjects loved mathematics. Now I remember. »

In 2017, Vardi offended the racial soil of some Asiat; It was shot on video, there was a scandal. The wife also made a choice – either a normal life or she goes.

Jamie Vardi and his family

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Jamie chose the norm.

Otherwise, did he play up to 38 years and such figures? 498 matches and 199 goals for Leicester – he was a little left for two anniversaries when he announced that he was leaving the club.

« It is difficult for me to accept this fact, but I knew that sooner or later it would come, »-his black and white video address begins with the fans of « bald ».

You can imagine how they are now. Vardi is the last and most favorite of their legendary team.

However, Lester flew from the APL again, and there is no time for a new return to Jamma. He has a year or two ahead-it is advisable to spend them in the elite or in the warm lands, where he will be paid with great money just for his name.

For the name!

Who could believe in Stoxbridge and Vicersley?

It’s been a long time when football was sports of workers who played for Christmas and Easter, because they were not given other weekends. Now it is a matrix that stamped clones, and even a new Messi in Yamal’s face has been able to reproduce.

Vardi and his history against this background are anachronism; An error in the code that was not supposed to happen.

This makes it special.

« But this is not a fairy tale. Don’t say it, » Len Kurtis warns. « Where’s a fairy tale when you work for a cold rainy evening in Flitwood? This is hard work, stability and determination. This is what he made it.

And in general, people who have not played at all levels do not understand that there is no big difference between the bottom itself and the top itself. The games are the same everywhere. Never burrows yourself is the most important thing that is needed. And never rest on the laurels.  »