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Jamie Vardy

ジェイミー・ヴァーディ　/　じぇいみー・ゔぁーでぃ

Association football player from United Kingdom

January 11, 1987 (age 39)　・　Sheffield, United Kingdom

association football player

My Take

Jamie Vardy's story is the one I tell people who think elite sport is a closed shop. Released at sixteen, working day jobs, scoring in non-league football while his peers trained at academies, and then tearing through the Premier League in his late twenties. His game is built on conviction as much as pace: the relentless runs, the refusal to be polite to defenders. Even now, scoring goals in Italy with Cremonese, he plays like a man with something to prove. I find that hunger genuinely moving. Football needs its late bloomers, and he is the patron saint of them.

Overview

Jamie Richard Vardy (né Gill; born 11 January 1987) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie B club Cremonese. After being released by Sheffield Wednesday at the age of 16, Vardy began his senior career with Stocksbridge Park Steels. He broke into the first team in 2007 and spent three seasons there before joining Northern Premier League Premier Division club FC Halifax Town in 2010.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Jamie Vardy
Name (Japanese): ジェイミー・ヴァーディ
Reading: じぇいみー・ゔぁーでぃ
Born: January 11, 1987 (age 39)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Rabbit
Origin: Sheffield, United Kingdom
Blood type: Private
Height: 179 cm
Agency: Private
Occupation: association football player

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Thomas Rotherham College

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

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