The Incredible Underdog Story Of Jamie Vardy

almost every little boy's dream is to grow up and be a famous footballer this is a story about one boy who never gave up on that dream even when he was dropped by his Boyhood Club at the tender age of 16 or even when he was arrested for assault outside a pub and given an electronic tag to track him forcing him to be subbed off at halim and rush home so he didn't break his curfew or even when he drank heavily almost every every night and sometimes showed up to training intoxicated this did not stop him from becoming one of the most fearsome Strikers in England he climbed his way from the eighth tier of English football all the way to the Premier League at the top battling for golden boots against Premier League Giants such as Sergio Aguero and Harry Kane he did all this on a diet of Red Bull full and smokeless tobacco this is the incredible Underdog Story of Jamie vardy Jamie Richard Gil was born on the 11th of January 1987 in Sheffield to Father Richard Hill and mother Lisa Cruz Jam's biological father Richard Hill walked out on the family when he was just an infant boy his mother remarried to a man called Phil vardy Jamie took his stepfather's second name changing his name from Jamie Gil to Jamie vardy his stepfather was a cran worker and his mother was a solicitor however Jamie vardy was a huge fan of Sheffield Wednesday his local team and he even went to some of the games where he witnessed the intense rivalry of Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United cementing his love for the game vard's love for Sheffield Wednesday in football led him to picking up the sport from a young age but he took particular interest in the striker position idolizing then Sheffield Wednesday player David Hurst Sheffer Wednesday eventually picked Jamie vardy up as a child where he played most of his youth career a dream for a young Jamie vardy but at the age of 16 he was released something truly heartbreaking for Jamie vardy as he wouldn't be able to play for the club he loved so much and grew up [Music] supporting but Jamie vardy did not let this end his football and dreams he kept working and in 2007 he was picked up by Stockbridge Park Steels stocksbridge were a team in the eighth division of English football Jamie vardy made his way from the reserve team to the first team in no time once he made it to the first team Jamie was paid a whopping £30 per week this was not enough to support him so he took a job as a technician making medical splints but in 2007 Jamie was convicted of assault due to an altercation that happened outside of a pub Jamie was court ordered to wear an electronic tag which had a curfew this forced him to have to be subbed off during evening games and having to rush home so it wouldn't break his curfew despite this Jamie vardy sha at stbridge gain interest from many different clubs and in 2009 this interest got him a trial at crew Alexandra who were in the third division of English football but unfortunately for vardy crew didn't pursue him any further another blow to Jamie vardy's dream but vardy is a fighter vardy helped stocksbridge get promoted from the eighth division to the seventh vardy was a target for many seventh division teams but in June of 2010 vardy signed for Halifax Town who were in the seventh division at the time Halifax manager Neil Aspen was a longtime admirer of Jamie vardy signing him for just 15 grand jamy vardy made his debut for Halifax town on the 21st of August 2010 against Bon and he scored the winning goal instantly making him the first name on the team Sheet in vard's first season at Halifax town he scored 25 goals in the 37 games he played winning the Players player of the Season his goal scoring ability helped haly Foxtown to win the Northern premier league title promoting them to the sixth division Jamie vardy was going up in his opening four matches of the next season he scored three goals for Halifax town before he secured another move up the ladder after a year at Halifax town he secured a move to the conference League the fifth division with Fleetwood Town vardy made his debut against York City which ended in a goalless draw however it would only take him a couple games for him to get off the mark as he scored three consecutive braces leaving him with six goals in his first first five games and he didn't even score in his first two on the 7th of January Fleetwood would play local Rivals Blackpool in the third round of the FA Cup where they lost 51 however Blackpool manager Ian Holloway offered Fleetwood £750,000 for Jamie vardy after the game which shows how highly rated vardy was at the time Fleetwood turned down this offer as they wouldn't sell him for anything less than1 million which is crazy as he was sold for just £5,000 just two years earlier vardy helped Fleetwood toown win the conference league and promotion to the football league for the first time in their history vardy was now in the fourth tier of English football the 1 million pound price tag on Jamie vy's head was met by then championship team Leicester city a then non-league record Jamie vardy was announced to be a Leicester player on the 17th of May 2012 where he signed a three-year contract however Jamie vard's Leicester career did not start off on the best foot according to Lester Vice chairman vardy would drink heavily every night and often turn up to training intoxicated this resulted in an inevitable poor first season he faced severe criticism about his loss of form and he even considered leaving football all together but manager Nigel Pon and assistant manager Craig Shakespeare convinced him to continue the next season vardy would take his football more seriously quitting his heavy drinking and focusing on football this would pay off tenfolds he established himself as a prolific goal scorer and finished the season on 16 goals he was named Lester player of the season and led lesser to promotion to the Premier League Jamie vardy made his Premier League debut on the 31st of August 2014 at the age of 27 he came on as a second half substitute in a 1-1 draw against Arsenal but his first Premier League goal would come against English Giants Manchester United vardy would help Leicester come back from 3-1 down to win 5 three vardy got a goal and assisted and even got man of the match vardy was in the Premier League to stay in vard's and leicester's first season in the Premier League they finished a modest 14th a great accomplishment by a newly promoted team but could they do it again the next season leicester's goal was to stay in the Premier League and the best way to do this was by winning games so under new boss Claudia Raneri that's what they did but one thing no one expected was that they wouldn't stop winning and Jamie vardy wouldn't stop scoring he scored not in one not in two not in three but in 11 games in a row a Premier League record leaving Leicester top of the Premier League on the second of February he scored this goal against Liverpool one of the greatest fies ever seen in premier league history it was described as World Class by Liverpool manager Jurgen klopp 4 days later he signed a contract put him on £80,000 a week a crazy amount bearing in mind he was earning just3 a week just a decade earlier on the 10th of April 2016 vardy became the first player since Gary liner to score more than 20 go goals in the top flight for Lester on the 2nd of May Lester sat comfortably at the top of the table one game away from winning the title the only problem is they weren't playing it was Tottenham versus Chelsea Tottenham who was second at the time had to win to stop Leicester from winning the league Jamie vardy hosted the whole of the Leicester Squad at his house to watch the game the game started and the Leicester players were on the edge of their seats in anticipation were they going to win the title Tottenham went one goal up by Harry Kane and then a second by son and it didn't look like it was going to happen but then Chelsea started to get back in it first kahill got one putting them 2-1 down against Tottenham Leicester needed Chelsea to score just one more to win the league up stepped Eden Hazard with this he ended tottenham's hopes of winning the title and made Leicester and Jamie vardy Premier League champions Jamie vardy was having a party vardy ended the season on 24 goals and a Premier League winner not bad for a lad who was dropped at [Music] 16 before this video ends I'd like to say shout out to this fell for saying I sound like Jamie carer's brother many thanks um I'd also like to say thank you to everybody that mentioned I said coutinho's wand of a left foot he was not left footed He was right footed and I would like to apologize for that inaccuracy uh here at fins bins we like to keep our content the most accurate it can be and it was not accurate in that instance and I apologize um anyway thank you so much for watching please like and subscribe and I'll see you next time see you

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Length: 11min 32sec (692 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 15 2023