Heroic hat-tricks in the history of football World Cup
FIFA 2018 (hat-tricks)
Ahead of the mega event, let us discuss the historic hat-tricks that have been scored in the history of FIFA World Cup
We are just three days away from the football World Cup, a game which is all about a team effort but a hat-trick is more of aglorious individual achievement. When one player scores three goals in a single game than it is referred as "hat-trick" and when it comes to the world cup, the magnitude of hat-trick increases. There have been several occasions when a player has earned glory for scoring a hat-trick in the World Cup.
Ahead of the mega event, let us discuss the historic hat-tricks that have been scored in the history of FIFA World Cup
-The first hat-trick in World Cup was scored by Bert Patenaude of the United States while playing against Paraguay in 1930. However, the goal was a bit controversial. Until 10 November 2006, the first hat-trick that FIFA acknowledged had been scored by Argentine Guillermo Stabile but two days after, FIFA announced that Patenaude's claim to being the first hat-trick scorer was valid.
-Four players, Sandor Kocsis (both 1954) Just Fontaine (both 1958) Gerd Muller (both 1970) and Gabriel Batistuta (1994 and 1998) have scored the hat-trick twice.
-Oleg Salenko - a retired Russian-Ukrainian footballer - has scored five goals in a single match in 1994 World Cup playing against Cameroon.
-Geoff Hurst is the only player who has scored a hat-trick in a World Cup Final.
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-Brazilian star player Pele is the youngest player to score a hat-trick. He scored the hat-trick in 1958 at 17 years and 244 days of age.
-There is one jinxed World Cup also where no hat-trick was scored. It was the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.
-The record number of hat-tricks in a single World Cup tournament is eight, during the 1954 FIFA World Cup in Switzerland
-Inthe the previous tournament, On 16 June 2014, in Germany's opening match of the World Cup, Thomas Muller scored the first hat-trick of the tournament. He bagged the first World Cup hat-trick for Germany since Miroslav Klose in 2002.
Miroslav Klose, Germany vs. Saudi Arabia, 2002
Gonzalo Higuaín, Argentina vs. South Korea, 2010
Pele, Brazil vs. France, 1958
Geoff Hurst, England vs. West Germany, 1966