Streaming large Netflix has executed a deal to supply a documentary sequence a few larger-than-life Premier League star’s path from austere origins in non-league soccer to the summit of the English recreation.
Jamie Vardy spearheaded Leicester Metropolis’s well-known Premier League title win in 2015-16, the Foxes’ first top-flight title, and has captivated English soccer ever since.
Whether or not he’s scoring wildly underappreciated objectives or cupping his ears in entrance of partitions of baying opposition supporters, there’s no denying the boy from Sheffield is field workplace. Netflix has snapped up the rights to inform the story of his rise from Stocksbridge Park Steels to the Champions League in ten years.
Something David Beckham can do…
Netflix’s latest sporting docuseries embrace a have a look at David Beckham’s life and a forthcoming documentary about Vinicius Junior. All three gamers labored their solution to the highest from modest beginnings however we will count on Vardy’s sequence to have a sure spicy one thing the others don’t.
After being launched by Sheffield Wednesday as a youngster, Vardy was a prolific scorer in non-league for Stocksbridge after which FC Halifax City earlier than firing fifth-tier Fleetwood City into the EFL in 2011/12. His first recreation as a league participant got here within the Championship after he made a record-breaking transfer to Leicester.
The remainder is historical past and it’s a historical past we’re totally wanting ahead to revisiting on display screen.
Vardy, who’s ranked at quantity 48 in FourFourTwo’s record of the perfect Premier League gamers of all time, was a key participant for the Foxes as they bought promoted, averted relegation below Nigel Pearson after wanting useless and buried, after which bagged a historic Premier League title that may by no means be forgotten. They added an FA Cup win 5 years later for good measure.
He performed 26 instances for England and is the one participant to have scored greater than 100 Premier League objectives in his thirties, and he’s nonetheless going. He’s been the Premier League Participant of the Season and the Soccer Writers’ Footballer of the 12 months. He’s received the Premier League Golden Boot.
It’s Vardy’s soccer journey that’s most compelling however we will all be delighted that Netflix will give us a glimpse into the house lifetime of a participant who’s distinctive on the pitch however is greater than a little bit mischievous and positively isn’t shrink back from soccer.
Jamie isn’t the one Vardy who is aware of seize a headline.
Rebekah Vardy has change into a family identify too, and there are many potential viewers who will likely be rather more excited to have a peek behind closed doorways to see what she’s as much as than they are going to be about Jamie’s goal-happy, ankle-clipping exploits in Yorkshire non-league.
Experiences recommend that one profitable docuseries may result in one other, with Rebekah apparently in line for a follow-up if Jamie’s sequence hits the mark.
Don’t maintain your breath for an look from the Rooneys in both one.
