{"id":77728,"date":"2025-10-29T16:52:28","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77728"},"modified":"2025-10-29T16:52:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T16:52:28","slug":"eden-hazard-inducted-into-premier-league-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/29\/eden-hazard-inducted-into-premier-league-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Eden Hazard Inducted into Premier League Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Fakande Oluwamayowa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former Chelsea star Eden Hazard has been inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame, becoming the sixth Chelsea legend to receive the honour after Frank Lampard, John Terry, Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole, and Petr \u010cech.<\/p>\n<p>Announced on the Premier League\u2019s official X handle on Wednesday, the Belgian received an engraved medallion and a \u00a310,000 charity donation from the league.<\/p>\n<p>Hazard won two Premier League titles, was named Player of the Season in 2014\/15, and made the Team of the Season four times during his seven-year spell at Chelsea.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 110 goals in 352 appearances before leaving for Real Madrid in 2019 and retiring in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot to join the Hall of Fame. I\u2019m very proud to be part of this group of players,\u201d Hazard said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fakande Oluwamayowa &nbsp; Former Chelsea star Eden Hazard has been inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame, becoming the sixth Chelsea legend to receive the honour after Frank Lampard, John Terry, Didier Drogba, Ashley Cole, and Petr \u010cech. Announced on the Premier League\u2019s official X handle on Wednesday, the Belgian received an engraved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1754,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77730,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77728\/revisions\/77730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}