{"id":527742,"date":"2025-04-24T19:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=527742"},"modified":"2025-04-24T19:30:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:30:30","slug":"premier-league-jamie-vardy-to-leave-leicester-after-13-seasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/premier-league-jamie-vardy-to-leave-leicester-after-13-seasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League: Jamie Vardy to leave Leicester after 13 seasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy will leave the club at the end of this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foxes announced on Thursday that Vardy will depart after 13 years at the King Power Stadium. The 38-year-old forward joined Leicester in 2012 from non-league side Fleetwood Town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He leaves as Leicester\u2019s all-time top Premier League scorer, with 198 goals in 498 appearances. Vardy famously scored 24 goals during the 2015\u201316 season, helping Leicester win their first-ever top-flight title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo the Leicester fans, I\u2019m gutted that this day has come, but I always knew it would,\u201d the English striker said in a farewell video posted by the club on social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Our greatest ever player, Jamie Vardy, will depart Leicester City this summer \ud83d\udc99<\/p>&mdash; Leicester City (@LCFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LCFC\/status\/1915361326387318974?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had 13 incredible years at this club, filled with success and a few lows, but mostly highs. It\u2019s finally time to say goodbye, and it devastates me\u2014but I believe the moment is right,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leicester played in the Premier League this season but are set to be relegated to the Championship, sitting 19th with 18 points and just five games remaining. Vardy featured in 32 matches and scored 8 goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy will leave the club at the end of this season. The Foxes announced on Thursday that Vardy will depart after 13 years at the King Power Stadium. The 38-year-old forward joined Leicester in 2012 from non-league side Fleetwood Town. He leaves as Leicester\u2019s all-time top Premier League scorer, with 198 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":527743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"pays":[93],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-527742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football-news-benews-sport","8":"pays-europe"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527742"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=527742"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=527742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}