Jamie Vardy will get fairytale farewell as Leicester City legend nets his 200th function in ultimate look for the Foxes

Jamie Vardy scored his 200th function in his 500th Leicester sport, because the Foxes legend suited up in blue one closing time on Sunday.

The striker is not going to characteristic in Leicester’s ultimate sport of the marketing campaign, at Bournemouth on May 25, that means Sunday’s sport in opposition to Ipswich on the King Power Stadium attracts the curtains on his 13-year bankruptcy on the membership.

To open the scoring, Vardy guided a neat low end previous Ipswich goalkeeper Alex Palmer, ahead of wheeling off in party, the place he yanked the nook flag out of the bottom and held it within the air in entrance of the house lovers.

Although he now has 9 targets this time period, Vardy has now not been ready to avoid wasting Leicester from relegation. The Foxes will make an immediate go back to the Championship after a dark marketing campaign.

And in spite of pastime from a number of golf equipment in the second one tier, Vardy is enthusiastic about staying on the most sensible stage, with the Premier League his choice after he leaves Leicester.

Asked whether or not he sought after to stick some of the elite, the 38-year-old mentioned this week: ‘Yeah, 100 per cent. But again, football’s a crazy world. So you never know what’s going to happen. I’m at all times excited for what comes subsequent.

In iconic style, Vardy celebrated via pulling the nook flag out of the bottom and retaining it up

‘I’ve always said I’ll keep going until my legs literally tell me, no, you need to stop, we’re done. And my legs are fine,’ he instructed Sky Sports.

Having performed 500 video games for Leicester, Vardy has made the third-most appearances ever for the membership and has registered 271 function contributions in that point. As their most sensible scorer, he additionally led them to an unheard of Premier League identify in 2016, in addition to the FA Cup and FA Community Shield in 2021.

The Englishman is the 15th all-time main scorer in Premier League historical past and scored in 11 immediately suits all over Leicester’s title-winning season – essentially the most ever.

In 2019-20, he turned into the oldest recipient of the Premier League golden boot award at 33 years previous, when he scored 23 targets.

Vardy introduced his farewell on the finish of closing month, together with his good-bye message to the lovers stressing how ‘gutted’ he used to be to be sharing the remark.

‘It has been 13 improbable years at this membership, with quite a lot of luck, some downs, however the majority all highs. It’s in any case time to name it an afternoon, which I’m devastated about however I feel the timing is correct,’ Vardy mentioned.

‘I simply need to sincerely thanks excited about taking you in as one among your individual. Leicester will at all times have a large position in my center and I’ll make certain I’ll be following within the future years in what I’m hoping will probably be much more luck for the membership.

‘As for now, that is my good-bye, however you’ll see me once more quickly I promise. Thank you.’