{"id":18055,"date":"2025-09-02T12:04:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18055"},"modified":"2025-09-02T12:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T12:04:01","slug":"veteran-jamie-vardy-inks-deal-with-cremonese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=18055","title":{"rendered":"Veteran Jamie Vardy inks deal with Cremonese"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Jamie Vardy, the veteran English forward whose goals fired Leicester City to an unlikely Premier League title truimph in 2016, joined newly promoted Serie A side Cremonese on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Vardy, 38, a free agent since leaving Leicester in May, put pen to paper on a one-year contract with an option to extend just hours before the transfer window closed, the Italian club said.<\/p>\n<p>The player who scored 145 Premier League goals in 342 appearances is joining a team who have won their first two matches in Serie A, including a 2-1 win against AC Milan at the San Siro.<\/p>\n<p>Vardy joins a growing contingent of former Premier League players in Serie A.<\/p>\n<p>Most prominently, Scott McTominay has found success since leaving Manchester United and joining Napoil, helping the side from southern Italy to win the Serie A crown in May.<\/p>\n<p>He has been joined at Napoli this season by former Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Vardy, the veteran English forward whose goals fired Leicester City to an unlikely Premier League title truimph in 2016, joined newly promoted Serie A side Cremonese on Monday. Vardy, 38, a free agent since leaving Leicester in May, put pen to paper on a one-year contract with an option to extend just hours before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}