Editing Dennis Bergkamp (section)

===Reception===
Widely regarded by pundits as one of the greatest players of his generation,<ref name="The Fifa 100 - Guardian">{{Cite news |title=The Fifa 100 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/mar/04/newsstory.sport15 |website=The Guardian|date=4 March 2004 }}</ref> one of the greatest players in [[Premier League]] history and amongst [[AFC Ajax|Ajax]]'s and [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]]'s greatest ever players.<ref name="Bergkamp named Hall of Fame inductee">{{Cite web |title=Bergkamp named Hall of Fame inductee |url=https://www.premierleague.com/news/2147141 |website=Premier League}}</ref><ref name="Gunners Greatest 50 Players">{{Cite web |title=Gunners Greatest 50 Players |url=https://www.arsenal.com/history/gunners-greatest-50-players |access-date=10 April 2023 |website=Arsenal.com}}</ref><ref name="Ultimate Ajax dream team">{{cite web |url=https://www.goal.com/en/lists/ultimate-ajax-dream-team-bergkamp-van-basten-in-ibrahimovic-suarez-out/blt5bbdbd8ecd496607 |title=Ultimate Ajax dream team - Bergkamp and Van Basten in, Ibrahimovic and Suarez out |publisher=www.goal.com |date=14 February 2023 |access-date=10 November 2023 }}</ref> Bergkamp has received several accolades during his playing career. He twice finished in third place for the [[1993 FIFA World Player of the Year|1993]]<ref name="FWPOTY93"/> and [[1997 FIFA World Player of the Year|1997]]<ref name="FWPOTY97"/> [[FIFA World Player of the Year]] award and was named in [[FIFA 100]], a list compiled by footballer [[Pelé]] of the 125 greatest living footballers.<ref name=Fifa100>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/mar/04/newsstory.sport15 |title=The Fifa 100 |date=4 March 2004 |access-date=15 December 2011 |work=The Guardian|location=London}}</ref> In his club career, Bergkamp won two successive [[Dutch Footballer of the Year]] awards in 1991 and 1992 and was the [[Eredivisie#Top scorers|Eredivisie top scorer]] for three consecutive seasons (1990–91 to 1992–93). He was named the [[FWA Footballer of the Year]] and [[PFA Players' Player of the Year]] in April and May 1998 and made the [[PFA Team of the Year]] for the 1997–98 season. Bergkamp also achieved a unique feat in being voted first, second and third on [[Match of the Day]]'s [[BBC Goal of the Month|Goal of the Month]] competition in August 1997.<ref>{{cite news |title=The Joy of Six: classiest hat-tricks |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2007/sep/11/newsstory.sport9 |work=[[guardian.co.uk]] |location=London |date=11 September 2007 |access-date=18 December 2011 }}</ref> For his national team, Bergkamp was the joint top scorer at Euro 1992<ref name="Season 1992 UEFA EURO"/> and was selected in the [[FIFA World Cup awards#All-Star Team|All-Star team]] for the tournament,<ref name="UEFA 1992 Team of the Tournament"/> an honour he also received at the 1998 FIFA World Cup.<ref name="MasterCard All-Star Team"/>

In April 2007, Bergkamp was inducted into the [[English Football Hall of Fame]] by viewers of BBC's ''[[Football Focus]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/dennis-bergkand-voted-into-hall-of-fame |title=Dennis Bergkamp voted into Hall of Fame |date=3 September 2007 |access-date=15 December 2011 |publisher=Arsenal.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130603204724/http://www.arsenal.com/news/news-archive/dennis-bergkand-voted-into-hall-of-fame |archive-date=3 June 2013}}</ref> A year later, he was voted second by Arsenal fans behind Thierry Henry in a list of the ''50 Gunners Greatest Players''.<ref name="Gunners' Greatest"/> In February 2014, Arsenal unveiled a statue of Bergkamp outside the Emirates Stadium to honour his time at the club.<ref>{{cite news|title=Arsenal unveil Dennis Bergkamp statue|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-26303200|work=BBC Sport|access-date=9 October 2014|date=22 February 2014}}</ref> A statue of Dennis Bergkamp will be erected outside the KNVB headquarters in Zeist, as he has been chosen as the best Dutch international player from 1990 to 2015. The statue will join those of ''the eleven of the century'', erected in 1999, alongside statues of [[Johan Cruyff]], [[Ruud Gullit]], [[Frank Rijkaard]] and [[Marco van Basten]], amongst others.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/4508/Sport/article/detail/3811022/2014/12/13/Bergkamp-krijgt-standbeeld-bij-KNVB.dhtml|title=Bergkamp krijgt standbeeld bij KNVB|work=TROUW|date=13 December 2014}}</ref> In September 2023, ''[[FourFourTwo]]'' magazine ranked Bergkamp 68th in their list of the "100 best football players of all time."<ref name="fourfourtwo">{{cite news|last=White|first=Mark|url=https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/ranked-the-100-best-football-players-of-all-time/4|title=Ranked! The 100 best football players of all time: full list|edition=356|work=[[FourFourTwo]]|date=5 September 2023|accessdate=17 November 2023}}</ref>

Bergkamp has been described by Jan Mulder as having "the finest technique" of any Dutch international<ref name="Burgcamp"/> and as a "dream for a striker" by former Arsenal teammate Thierry Henry.<ref name="Indy"/>