IT will be 500 and out for Jamie Vardy at Leicester.
The Foxes legend, 38, will pull on his blue No9 shirt for the final time against Ipswich on Sunday.
Rather than finish with an away game at Bournemouth next weekend, Vardy wants to go out in front of his own fans at the King Power.
Vardy has 199 goals for Leicester and a clash against the Tractor Boys will be his final chance to hit number 200.
A packed King Power Stadium will say ‘Goodbye to the GOAT’ in a tearful farewell to their greatest-ever player.
Amazingly, it will come exactly 13 years to the day since he joined in a non-league record £1million transfer from Fleetwood Town.
But Vardy has had no time to look back — even at Leicester’s incredible 2015-16 title triumph — and is only looking forward to a Premier League future.
The 26-cap former England striker said: “I’ll keep going until my legs literally tell me ‘no, you need to stop, we’re done’. And my legs are fine.
“This isn’t the end. No. I’ve no doubts I can still do it in the Premier League – but that’s just me.
“I believe I can still do it at an elite level, 100 per cent.
“I’m excited for the next challenge – I’m always excited. Always!
“At the end of the day, I’m doing a sport that I love.”
Leicester plan to mark his incredible stint with them by inviting former team-mates to “to share another special post-match moment with the Blue Army” and “give the GOAT the send-off he deserves”.
Vardy won the FA Cup in 2021 but is best remembered for the Foxes’ 5,000-1 title triumph.
Asked how often he reflects on that career-defining moment, Vardy replied: “I don’t. I’ve not had a chance, not properly, to fully digest the size of it.
“I finished, did the parade, I was then off with the Euros.
“So I was having to then get ready to play for England and then by the time the tournament’s finished, it’s a couple of weeks and you’re back in for training for the next season.
“So it’s not something, again like most of it, I’ve had a chance to sit down and properly think about it.
“That’ll be more once the boots are officially hung up.”
Vardy cannot guarantee he will seal the deal with a fairytale 200th goal against the Tractor Boys on Sunday – unlike the night he created Prem history during Leicester City’s iconic 2015-16 title triumph.
The striker scored in the first-half of the Foxes 1-1 draw with Manchester United to break Ruud van Nistelrooy’s record by becoming the first player in history to score in 11 consecutive Premier League matches.
Vardy revealed that he promised his wife Rebekah and his family he would score that night.
He told Sky Sports: “It’s a bit big-time, that!
“I had the belief in myself for the 11th game and I actually watched it that morning as well.
“It was after that that I said to my family, to my wife, that I’m scoring tonight.
“I’d love to score my 200th but if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t.”
Vardy says he will approach Sunday’s farewell game as if it was any other.
He added: “I’ll prepare the same as I always do.
“Do you know what it is? You can speak to my family and they’ll all say I’m emotionless.
“It might do (kick-in) like at the end of the game or whatever, but until that happens, I’m literally just focused on the game.
“At the end of the day, it’s still a game of football to play first.
“If it doesn’t hit me afterwards, then my family are right.
“We want to win. We’ve managed to pick a couple of decent performances up, get a few results.
“If we can now, it’s about seeing out the season with momentum to help for the start of next season.”
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