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Jamie Vardy is expected to telephone clip connected his Leicester vocation aft his 500th quality for the nine this weekend. Vardy, regarded by galore arsenic Leicester’s top ever player, has spent 13 years astatine the nine and is poised to marque his last quality for themat location to Ipswich connected Sunday and past not diagnostic successful their last Premier League match, astatine Bournemouth.
The 38-year-old striker, who is poised to skipper Leicester for the last time, announced past month, aft relegation to the Championship was confirmed, that helium would leave the nine astatine the extremity of the season. He was cardinal to Leicester winning the Premier League against each likelihood successful 2016 and the FA Cup successful 2021 but conceded helium wanted to exit connected a amended note, aft a hopeless play successful the apical flight, describing his ain run arsenic a “total embarrassment”. He volition anticipation to people a 200th extremity successful a Leicester garment against Ipswich.
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Vardy has nary plans to discontinue and believes helium tin inactive play astatine the apical level. He is thought to person involvement from the United States. His communicative is 1 of the astir singular successful the modern era, the subordinate having joined Leicester from non-league Fleetwood for £1m successful 2012 and gone connected to cement himself arsenic an England planetary and 1 of the champion strikers successful the Premier League. In 2019-20, aged 33, Vardy became the oldest subordinate to triumph the Premier League Golden Boot. He scored 18 league goals arsenic the nine won promotion past play and helium has scored 7 successful this campaign.
Leicester volition observe Vardy earlier and aft Sunday’s match, with respective of his erstwhile teammates from the Premier League title-winning play expected to beryllium successful attendance. Supporters volition beryllium fixed souvenir flags to signifier a pre-game show and aft full-time Vardy is expected to code the crowd.
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