:quality(80)/cdn-kiosk-api.telegraaf.nl/15e80a24-b89c-11eb-8655-02d2fb1aa1d7.png "Wonderful honor for Dennis Bergkamp: inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame | Football")
sport">“Elegance, intelligence and the architect behind one of the most beautiful goals ever scored in the Premier League,” the agency writes.
sport">Bergkamp (51) played more than four hundred games for Arsenal. In it he scored 120 goals. In the service of the ‘Gunners’ he celebrated three league titles. Arsenal supporters chose him in 2008 as second in the list of the English club’s fifty best players ever.
sport">Former Chelsea captain and trainer Frank Lampard is next to be part of the Premier League’s Hall of Fame.
sport">Lampard became champion a total of three times with The Blues and is the most prolific midfielder in Premier League history with 177 goals serving West Ham, Chelsea and Manchester City. He is the fifth of a total of eight football players to be selected for the recently established Hall of Fame.
sport">Former Newcastle striker Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry, who shone in the Arsenal shirt for years, were the first to receive that honor. On Tuesday, Eric Cantona (ex-Manchester United) and his then teammate Roy Keane joined the list of the lucky ones.
sport">In total, 26 candidates were pre-selected in addition to Henry and Shearer. The audience and a panel of experts have already determined three players by voting. The last two names will be revealed over the next few days, the Premier League clarified. Robin van Persie is still in the running for this.
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