Jamie Vardy

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.

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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)

Origin

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Height

179 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rabbit

University

Thomas Rotherham College

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie%20Vardy
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A4%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6147586

Tags

• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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