The English striker in the podcast “Jamie Vardy’s Having A Party”: “For me the matches are all important, in Italy however… Here the sporting directors have a say in everything”
Jamie Vardy also becomes a podcaster. After “The Vardys”, the docu-series recently broadcast also by Netflix which tells the story of his family’s life, the former Leicester and Cremonese player inaugurated the first episode of the podcast “Jamie Vardy’s Having A Party”. In the studio with his wife Rebekah and the host Manish Bhasin, the striker from Sheffield will tell anecdotes about football and his eventful life every week and will comment on the World Cup, with England in the lead, in his direct and unfiltered style with which he has already inaugurated the series. Starting from Serie A, in which he played last season. “How is Italian football compared to English football? It’s much slower, more defensive. Training is continuous: run, run, run. Then you go into the match and, literally, you have nothing left to give. It’s not nice when you’re 38, 39, right? But not just for me. That’s how it works here. And the sporting director has a say in everything, it’s crazy.”
the mentality
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There is no shortage of examples: “Ahead of the match against Bologna we did what we usually do in England. So we had a day off after the match. Everyone came onto the pitch very fresh, and we won 3-1. Everyone was euphoric. So in my head I thought: ‘Well, we’ll continue like this’. And instead… no, we went back to training every day, because ‘this match is really important’. But how? All the matches are, there’s no difference, at least this one is my mentality.”
the family
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Vardy also talks about the difficulties of settling in experienced by his family, with whom he had chosen to live in a villa on Lake Garda, in Salò: “If I’m honest, moving abroad with a family is really, really difficult. How was it coming back? Very nice, to be honest. Obviously we had already brought the kids back. It was a struggle. Really. And I also felt very guilty.” Not a usual thing, for those who have lightness as a peculiar trait: “I give my best when I’m having fun. You have to have a laugh. I’ve always had a laugh, even when I was on the bench in the minor leagues. When I never gave up, and it was really worth it. Football saved me. I have a self-destruct button, I could have taken a completely different direction, maybe found myself in Alcatraz…”. And then a laugh.
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