'age Is Just A Number' - Vardy Begins Life In Italy

Former Leicester striker Jamie Vardy said "age is conscionable a number" arsenic he opens a caller section of his profession pinch Italian broadside Cremonese.

The 38-year-old, who is regarded among Leicester's top players left nan club astatine nan extremity of past season, calling clip connected a 13-year spell astatine nan nine wherever he scored 200 goals successful 500 appearances.

He scored 24 of those successful their Premier League title-winning 2015-16 season.

Vardy signed for newly-promoted Serie A broadside Cremonese connected a free transportation earlier this period and he could make his debut for nan bluish Italian broadside connected Monday, against Verona.

Asked if he, and different veterans specified arsenic Kevin de Bruyne and Luka Modric who person besides moved to Serie A this summer, are still motivated to execute astatine nan highest level, he replied: "You must beryllium 1 of nan doubters. You're 1 that I'll person to beryllium wrong

"For maine property is conscionable a number. As agelong arsenic my legs are doing precisely what they utilized to and still consciousness arsenic caller arsenic they do past I will transportation on.

"At nan infinitesimal location are nary signs of them slowing down truthful I'll support going and I will beryllium giving my each for this club.

"I will study Italian, but [for now] it is not a problem: shot has its ain language, pinch nan ball," he said.

Cremonese person enjoyed an awesome commencement to nan season, opening their run pinch a astonishment 2-1 triumph complete AC Milan earlier beating Sassuolo 3-2.

"The main task is making judge we enactment successful nan league, and that's really it was erstwhile I was astatine Leicester," Vardy said.

"It was ne'er any, 'we are going to spell for this', it was always, 'we request to enactment successful nan league', that's nan main thing. So each you do, you spell out, you return each crippled one-by-one, springiness your all, what will beryllium will be."