Jamie Richard Vardy is born on 11 January 1987 in Sheffield, England, UK. He is an English football player who plays as a striker for the English Premier League club Leicester City and the English national team.
Jamie began his career as a second-class senior rank in Stocks Bridge Park, breaking to join his first senior career where he scored 25 goals and won the player of the year award.
After spending three seasons in stocks Bridge Park later joined the Northern Premier League at the club of F.C. Halifax town in 2010 then shifted to Conference Premier Club Fleetwood town.
In the first season of the premier club league, he scored 31 goals and won the division, then was honored with the player of the year award.
Jamie belongs to a poor family background his parents had struggled a lot in the time of poverty when Jamie was a child.
He was not fond of studying and used to spend most of his time playing football so when he was a teenager he joined the Stockbridge Park steels youth system having a passion to weave his life’s dream come true.
Jamie managed to pay his club fee by doing some odd jobs as he was earning only 30 pounds a week.
Family & Personal Life
Jamie was born in a lower-middle-class family and he is the only child. His father was a crane driver and his mother worked as an employed solicitor.
Jamie met Rebekah Nicholson in 2014 while she was doing the job of a nightclub promoter.
He married Rebekah Nicholson on 25th May 2016 in Peckforton Castle located in Cheshire, it was the 2nd marriage of Jamie.
Vardy has three Children two from his second wife and one from his ex-wife and now lives happily with his 2nd wife.
Jamie Vardy Football Career
Vardy initially made his career by playing in “Sheffield Wednesday” at the age of 16 and then moved to Stockbridge Park Steel planned his career in the reserve team by making his first match of the day under manager Gary Marrow by earning 30 Pounds a week.
Jamie signed a short-term contract with Rotherham United later he became a prominent player on the team and leagues got interested to take him.
On 21st may 2015 Vardy joined England international team his first match was against the Republic of Ireland and a UEFA Euro 2016 Qualifying match against Slovenia he made his role against the Republic of Ireland in Aviva Stadium Dublin, his team officials replaced him with Wayne Ronnie and kept him on that spot for the final 15 minutes.
On August 30, Vardy was picked in the team England for the match against the Swiss team of San Marino in UEFA euro 2016 qualifying he was selected at the initial starting line for the match in which England scored 6 goals.
Jamie Vardy Amazing Facts
James Vardy broke the record of Ruud Van Nistelrooy’s for most no-goals in the Premier League.
Vardy is very famous for making himself the Highest Non-league transfer fee.
Vardy was picked to play in the northern league’s premier division which is the seventh tier of English football.
He was born in Sheffield, England, UK.
He is very popular on social media and has 848K followers on his Twitter account.
He has 1.3 million followers on his Instagram account.
