“It worked an absolute treat”- Jamie Vardy names his favorite striking partner and it is not Harry Kane
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Jamie Vardy and Harry Kane
Leicester City star man and former England international Jamie Vardy names his favorite striking partner in an interview. To everyone’s surprise, he didn’t mention his former teammate and now England‘s captain Harry Kane in his list. Both Harry Kane and Vardy have played together for both Leicester City and the England National Team.
Jamie Vardy said regarding the same, “I always say the same answer,” he told Michael Calvin’s football people when asked about his favorite strike partner. “It’s one of my old team-mates, David Nugent. It’s sheerly on how we were together as a partnership. Everything just clicked, everything worked.“
Vardy and David Nugent had played together in Leicester shirt for around three years. They both scored 36 goals between them in the 2013-14 campaign and helped the club earn promotion to the Premier league in 2014, one year after Harry Kane’s brief stint on loan with the foxes.
“[We] both knew exactly what the other was going to do, so the other striker would so the complete opposite. It worked an absolute treat and I always enjoyed my time when I was playing up front with Nuge.” Vardy admired his partner in the talk and was still mesmerized by the memories he left. Vardy is now playing in his 10th year in fox jersey and had renewed for another 2 years at the start of this season.
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Jamie Vardy’s choice David Nugent proves right
David Nugent started his career in 2002, signing his first contract with his boyhood club Bury. He joined Preston North End in 2005 and played there for two seasons. He then moved to Portsmouth in 2007 and then he joined Leicester City in 2011. He scored 54 goals from 159 matches he played there across five seasons.
Now 37 year old, David Nugent has retired from football in 2021. He had played 14 matches and scored 4 goals for the England U-21 squad across 2005-07. His sole match for the senior team comes in a 3-0 win over Romania in 2008 European qualifiers, he scored the the opening goal in the match.
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