'The era of romance has said goodbye.'
'Team of Fairy Tale' Leicester City failed to avoid relegation in the 2024-2025 season. He returned to the Premier League stage after winning the English Championship (second division) in the previous season, but came to a tragic end in just one season.
Jamie Vardy, who has led the team for the past 13 years since the relegation was confirmed, also said goodbye. Vardy was a living legend of the EPL as well as Leicester City, and the "end of romance". He started as a nameless eight-time leaguer and won a miraculous EPL championship. He was the main character of the 'Leicester City's fairytale victory' that is still talked about today. Such a body is now leaving Leicester City. This means that the era of romance is completely over.
Leicester City lost to Liverpool 0-1 in the 33rd round of the EPL in the 2024-2025 season at its home stadium, King Power Stadium in Leicester, England, on the night of the 21st, and suffered its 23rd loss (4 wins and 6 draws) of the season. This confirmed Leicester City's relegation to 19th regardless of the remaining games.
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After the shocking result, Vardy, who is a symbol of the team, decided to leave the team. The Leicester City club announced on its website on the 24th (Korea time) that Jamie Vardy, a legendary striker and the club's all-time best player, will leave Leicester City for the first time in 13 seasons this summer.
Leicester City then joined the team for £1 million in 2012 and led the club to its golden years, winning the EPL, FA Cup, Community Shield, and two championships. No player could have achieved success in that period better than Vardy. He played in nearly 500 games and scored nearly 200 goals. This is a unique feat in Leicester City's 141-year history.
As the Leicester City club described it, Vardy is the club's 'living history' and the best 'romantic goal scorer' in EPL history. He was a thoroughly unknown player. Few expected to become a professional player except himself. The start of his career was in the eighth division.
He then joined Leicester City in the 2012 Championship (second division) for a fee of just £1 million. Since it started in the eighth part and went up to the second part, this alone can be said to be a success.
But Vardy's career heyday has started all over again from here. Vardy, who immediately became the team's main striker, led Leicester City to the championship in the 2013-2014 season and finally made the EPL stage.
Vardy, who moved from the eighth division to the first division, then became the leading player in Leicester City's miraculous victory in the 2015-2016 season. It's the same season called the fairytale win. Vardy scored 11 consecutive league goals at the time, giving Leicester City the EPL championship, which barely managed to stay just before the season.
'Waitness' was a four-character idiom for the body. In the 2019-2020 season, he became the EPL top scorer (23 goals) at the age of 34. He is the main character of the `EPL's Oldest Scorer Record' which is still maintained. The 訪 years? In the 2020-2021 season, the team won the FA Cup.
Leicester City was unfortunately relegated to 18th place (34 points) in the 2022-2023 season. It was only two points away from 17th-ranked Everton. Vardy, who tried to stay until the end, was greatly frustrated, but he did not leave Leicester City. He continued to be a legend of the team, leading his juniors to win the championship with 18 goals and achieving promotion to the EPL again in a season. It is Vardy's second career championship win.
However, Leicester City returned to the Championship as soon as they were promoted. Vardy also appeared in 31 matches in the EPL, but only scored seven goals (3 assists). Still, this is the highest score in the team. He showed off his old age amid overall sluggishness.
This time, he will not be able to join the relegation team. Vardy has decided to leave Leicester City. It is a choice to make room for juniors. Leicester City alone played 496 games. He had 198 goals and 69 assists.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
