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Jamie Vardy
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Jamie Vardy

b. 1987

English association football player (born 1987)

Born
11 Jan 1987 · Sheffield

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 45 years
  1. 11 Jan 1987BornBorn in Sheffield
  2. 2007 – 2010TeamStocksbridge Park Steels F.C.
  3. 2010 – 2011TeamFC Halifax Town
  4. 2011 – 2012TeamFleetwood Town F.C.
  5. 2012 – 2025TeamLeicester City F.C.
  6. 2015 – 2018TeamEngland men's national association football team
  7. 2018Took part2018 FIFA World Cup
  8. 2025 – 2026TeamUS Cremonese
  9. 2026TeamBurnley F.C.

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1987 – today).

  1. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  2. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  3. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  4. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  5. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  7. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  8. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  9. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  10. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  11. 20062006 FIFA World Cup
  12. 20082008 Summer Olympics
  13. 2008Russo-Georgian War
  14. 20102010 Haiti earthquake
  15. 2010 – 2012Arab Spring
  16. 20112011 Norway attacks
  17. 2011Libyan civil war
  18. 2011 – 2024Syrian civil war
  19. 20122012 Summer Olympics
  20. 20142014 FIFA World Cup
  21. 2014Russo-Ukrainian war
  22. 2015Paris Agreement
  23. 2020COVID-19 pandemic
  24. 20212020 Summer Olympics
  25. 2022Russo-Ukrainian war
  26. 2023Gaza war
  27. 20242024 Summer Olympics
  28. 20262026 Iran war

Biography

Jamie Richard Vardy (né Gill; born 11 January 1987) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL Championship club Burnley.

After being released by Sheffield Wednesday at age 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. Scoring 25 goals in his debut season, he won the club's Players' Player of the Year award and then moved to Conference Premier club Fleetwood Town in August 2011 for an undisclosed fee. He scored 31 league goals in his first season at his new team, winning the team's Player of the Year award as they won the division.

Vardy signed for Leicester City in the Championship in May 2012 for a non-League record transfer fee of £1 million and helped the team win the Championship in 2014. In the 2015–16 Premier League season, he scored in 11 consecutive Premier League matches, breaking Ruud van Nistelrooy's record, and was voted the Premier League Player of the Season and FWA Footballer of the Year as underdogs Leicester won the title. He won the Premier League Golden Boot for the 2019–20 season, becoming the oldest player to win the award. In 2021, he won the FA Cup and FA Community Shield. After relegation in 2023, he was named captain and led the club to promotion the following year by winning the EFL Championship in 2024, before departing in 2025 following another relegation. He played his final match with Leicester City exactly 13 years after first signing with them in May 2025, scoring a total of 200 goals in 500 appearances for the club. He then played for Serie A side Cremonese for a single season. He signed for Burnley in 2026.

Vardy made his international debut for the England national team in June 2015 and was selected for UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup, retiring following the latter tournament.

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