Leicester City, the top scorer of the Premier League, Jamie Vardy, said that her last match for the club would be “really sad” after announcing that he would leave the foxes at the end of the season.
The captain of the city Vardy, who signed in the non-bite city of Fleetwood Town and was an integral part of one of the biggest sporting shocks of all time when Leicester won the 2015/16 top title, described himself as “emptied” while announcing his release in front of the Premier League trophy.
The 38 -year -old striker scored 198 goals in 498 matches, including 143 in the Premier League, as well as Leicester to win the FA 2020/21 Cup and the championship in 2014 and 2024.
Vardy leaving Leicester: When is his last match?
In the message to Leicester fans, Vardy said that the club “would always have, always a massive place in my heart”, but called the timing “on the right”.
“I spent 13 incredible years in this club, with great success and a few stockings,” he said. “The majority were all high. It is finally time to call him one day, which I am devastated on this subject. ”
Leicester had two home games before Vardy left, against Southampton on May 3 and the city of Ipswich on May 18 (3:00 p.m. BST).
“”[My last game will] Be a really sad day, “he said to Leicester’s website.” This is something I thought about and that I talked about with my family. I think it’s time.
“Good things end. It will be one of these emotional days. Who knows in which direction it can go? If you ask someone, I’m not really an emotional guy.
“Nothing like it never comes to me with me but, when you have been somewhere for so long and it’s time to say goodbye, you never know what your personal reaction will be.”
Jamie Vardy Clubs: Leicester ‘Family’
Having been released by Sheffield on Wednesday in adolescence, Vardy spent time with Stocksbridge Park Steels before making a name for Halifax Town.
After a prolific period at Fleetwood Town – then a non -league team – Vardy joined Leicester for 1 million pounds Sterling in May 2012. “Being here so long, fans took me as if I were one of their own,” he said.
“You always want to reimburse this … it’s family. Fans, since I was here, have stayed with us through thick and thin.
“It happens in match days, and the atmosphere is great. And then you get the unconditional people who also travel to each game outside.
“It’s really appreciated, it’s really. Nothing in the world today is cheap, so for them to spend their money to support the club they love and, fortunately for me, being involved in this for the past 13 seasons is an incredible feeling. ”
Jamie Vardy statistics, goals
According to Leicester’s own assessment, Vardy’s arrival was “qualified as accurate at best, at worst strange” – but his 16 goals helped the club return to the Premier League the following season.
A total of 24 goals in this remarkable 2015/16 season, when Leicester was 5,000/1 to win the Premier League, was the first of the seven successive campaigns in which Vardy would reach double figures in the elite.
On November 28, 2015, Jamie Vardy interrupted the record of the current manager of Leicester Ruud Van Nistelrooy by scoring 11 consecutive games in the Premier League with a against the team for whom the Dutchman reached the feat, Manchester United.
Among his litany of other highlights, Vardy helped Leicester reach the quarter-finals of the 2016/17 Champions League, the round of the 2020/21 Europa League of 32 and the semi-finals of the 2021/22 conference league.
He scored 20 goals last season when Leicester won the championship and scored seven goals and three first league passes this season, with only nine English players going beyond him.
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