Hat-trick A player gets a hat-trick when they score three goals in one game, but the use of the term actually didn’t start on the football pitch. The phrase came from cricket, and was used when a bowler took three wickets from three consecutive balls. The club would give the bowler a hat to celebrate this achievement.

“A pants trick is the best term for when a player scores four goals in a hockey game. The term was invented by the 9 year old nephew of Doug Stolhand, one of the hosts of the excellent Puck Podcast.

It may surprise some people to learn that the term “hat trick” as it relates to sports actually originated in British cricket. A bowler who retired three batsmen with three consecutive balls was entitled to a new hat at the expense of the club to commemorate this feat.

A super hat-trick is a term used to describe a situation that happens when a player scores four goals in a single game.

The four players who have scored a double hat-trick are Albert Valentine, Syd Carter, Johnnie Mullington and Andy Scott, two of whom hold all-time club records.

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In Australia, four wickets in four balls is sometimes referred to as a double hat-trick on the basis that there are two ways of compiling the three-in-three sequence (i.e. wickets 1,2 and 3 or wickets 2,3 and 4).

Marcus Rashford: Man Utd striker scores hat-trick after 1m signatures.

The term ‘hat-trick’ is used to define when a player achieves the feat of scoring three goals in a single game. When a player has scored two goals in a game – which is sometimes known as ‘a brace’ – they are often described as being “on a hat-trick” due to the fact that another goal will complete a hat-trick.

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For all things football. Carlos Soler scored a hat-trick of penalties as Valencia ended a four-match winless run in LaLiga with a 4-1 rout of Real Madrid at Mestalla.

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Geoff Hurst is the only male player to have scored a hat-trick in a World Cup final.

Besides Pelé, the only Brazilian players to have scored a hat-trick at the World Cup finals were Leônidas da Silva against Poland in 1938 and Ademir de Menezes against Sweden in 1950. The last Brazilian player to score a hat-trick was Paulinho, who scored three times against Uruguay in a World Cup qualifier in 2017.

India’s Chetan Sharma was the first cricketer to take a hat-trick in a World Cup match. Eleven hat-tricks have been taken in World Cup matches. Pakistani’s Wasim Akram and Mohammad Sami are the only players to have taken hat-tricks in ODIs and Tests.

Four players have scored two hat-tricks in World Cup tournaments: Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) at the 1954 tournament in Switzerland; Just Fontaine (France) in Sweden in 1958; Gerd Müller (West Germany) at the 1970 tournament in Mexico; and Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina) in his World Cup debut against Greece in the USA …

Miroslav Klose

Messi’s goal against Serbia and Montenegro, on 16 June 2006, made him the youngest-ever scorer for Argentina at a FIFA World Cup when he was 18 years and 357 days old. He has scored six international hat-tricks, and has netted twice in a match (also known as a brace) on eleven occasions.

Cristiano Ronaldo is the joint record holder for the most Champions League hat-tricks. He is the only player to score three hat-tricks in a single season and the only player to score two consecutive hat-tricks in the knockout stage….Hat-tricks.

How many hat-tricks does Messi have? Messi has scored 36 hat-tricks in La Liga, and has eight of them in the Champions League, and 48 in total. Your mission is to locate the missing two hat-tricks.

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