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You won't believe what Jamie Vardy drinks before Leicester City's games
Premier League footballers will typically have their dietary regime strictly controlled by their employers. In order to squeeze that extra one percent from every performance, Pep Guardiola banned his Manchester City players from eating pizza, Antonio Conte has taken ketchup off the table and Arsene Wenger has taken a monastic view towards player diets since the 1990s.
But it seems that Jamie Vardy isn’t subject to such a strict nutritional regime.
The Leicester City striker is apparently deep enough into his career to have written an autobiography (he’s 29) which is currently being serialized in the UK press. In a recent excerpt, it was revealed that the former non-league striker drinks a hearty portion of port the night before every single game. The Daily Mail reports:
‘I can’t say why it started, because I genuinely don’t know, but I decided to drink a glass of port on the eve of every game in the 2015–16 season. I’m not normally superstitious but from the moment I scored against Sunderland on the opening day, I didn’t want to change anything.
‘I fill a small plastic water or Lucozade bottle to halfway and just sip the port while watching television. It tastes like [blackcurrent cordial drink] Ribena to me, and it helps me switch off and get to sleep a bit easier the night before a game.’
The Mail note that a small bottle of Lucozade is 500ml and that the 250ml he is consuming before every game is equal to five double shots.
The morning after his port sessions, also known as game day, he drinks enough caffeine to keep most normal people up for weeks:
Vardy wrote: ‘At the start of the 2013-14 season I made some changes to my pre-match routine — and it’s remained the same to this day.’ He added that, on a traditional 3pm Saturday kick off, he would start the day with a can of Red Bull, drinking it within 30 seconds. He has no breakfast, but will eat a cheese and ham omelette with baked beans at 11.30am.
‘I wash that down with another Red Bull, which I also neck quickly,’ he writes. ‘While we’re waiting and killing a bit of time, I have a double espresso.
‘We get into the dressing room an hour-and-a-half before kick-off, and I’ll have a third can of Red Bull. But with this one I sip it all the way until we go out for the warm-up, leaving a bit to finish off when I come back in.
Since consuming three Red Bulls and a double espresso before every match, Vardy’s form improved considerably. So too, presumably, did his bladder control.
In “Jamie Vardy: From Nowhere, My Story,” the Foxes forward also admits to having previously enjoyed a drink that sounds like Marshawn Lynch’s nightclub tipple of choice: Skittles-flavored vodka. From The Sun:
I had a three-litre vodka bottle at home I would put loads of Skittles sweets in.
Once one batch had fully dissolved, I’d top it up with more — only the red or purple sweets because I don’t fancy the orange, green and yellow ones. I must have put a different batch in at least 20 times.
After that, you can drink the vodka neat and it tastes just like Skittles. When I was bored at home in the evening I’d pour myself a glass, sit back and enjoy. The vodka was decent but it wasn’t doing much for my dead leg, which didn’t stop bleeding for ages.
So kids, the lesson here is clear: Vodka will hinder your sporting dreams, but port and copious amounts of Red Bull will turn you into a Premier League Player of the Year.
