Aguero, Drogba, Kompany among 6 voted into PL Hall of Fame

Sergio Aguero, Didier Drogba, Vincent Kompany, Peter Schmeichel, Paul Scholes and Ian Wright were announced on Thursday as the next six Premier League Hall of Fame inductees.

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They will join Wayne Rooney and Patrick Vieira, who were announced last month, to form the 2022 Premier League Hall of Fame class to be honored at an event in London this evening.

The Premier League Hall of Fame inducted its inaugural class in 2021, with Alan Shearer and Thierry Henry announced as headliners, joined by Eric Cantona, Roy Keane, David Beckham, Dennis Bergkamp, Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard.

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For more on each player’s Hall of Fame career, their Premier League exploits — via the Premier League:

Aguero is the highest-scoring overseas player in Premier League history, having scored 184 goals in just 275 appearances for Manchester City. He joined the Citizens before the 2011-12 season and finished that campaign by scoring one of the most iconic Premier League goals of all time, his dramatic late winner on the final day against Queens Park Rangers sealing Manchester City’s first Premier League trophy. 

Drogba was a four-time Premier League champion with Chelsea, earning a reputation as the archetypal big-game player. The center forward was capable of scoring every type of goal and twice won the Premier League Golden Boot, in 2006-07 and 2009-10, amassing a total of 104 goals in 254 League appearances during two spells with the Blues. 

Kompany joined Manchester City in 2008 and played a key role in the transformation at the club over the coming years. He won the Premier League Player of the Season award