idiom. Add to word list Add to word list. an occasion when a football player scores one goal with their left foot, one goal with their right foot, and one goal with their head.
Ever Wonder: Perfect hat-trick? A perfect hat-trick is when a player has a headed goal and scores with both left and right foot.
Legendary goal scorers like Louis Saha, Edin Dzeko, Peter Crouch, Thierry Henry, Les Ferdinand, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Andy Cole and Matthew Le Tissier have all netted a perfect hat-trick.
@FootballRamble. For reference: 2 = brace, 3 = hat-trick, 4 = haul, 5 = glut, 6 = double hat-trick, 7 = haul-trick.
A hat trick as hockey fans know it comes when a player scores three goals in a game, usually earning him a cascade of hats thrown onto the ice by fans (especially if the player is on the home team). A natural hat trick is when a player scores three consecutive goals in a game.
Another type of hat trick specific to soccer is referred to as the perfect or golden hat trick. This is accomplished when a player scores three times in a single game, no matter whether others have scored in between those goals, by using each the left foot, right foot and head.
Double (and Quadruple) Hat Tricks
A few players in NHL history have scored double hat tricks; that is, 6 or more goals in a game. Topping the list is Joe Malone who turned this trick twice. The first was a 7-goal game for the Quebec Bulldogs on January 31, 1920. Then he scored 6 goals on March 10 of the same season.
The first time Ronaldo amassed five goals in a single game in his entire career came for Real as part of a 9-1 obliteration of Granada in LaLiga. The one-man onslaught began after 30 minutes and culminated with Ronaldo adding his fifth and Real's ninth goal in 90th minute, rising to head home a Luka Modric free kick.
Hunters would use the word brace to refer to how many animals they had caught on their trip. For example, if a hunter comes home with a brace of geese, it meant they had caught two geese. Similarly, if a soccer player scores a brace of goals, they have two goals.
A super hat trick in soccer is when a player achieves four goals in a single soccer game. Like a traditional hat trick, these goals do not need to be achieved sequentially, but goals made during a penalty shootout are not counted. It is counted if the goal comes from a penalty kick or is made during extra time.
On March 23, 1952, though, Bill Mosienko scored a hat trick in an incredible 21 seconds - a feat that most likely will never be broken.
On 27 January 2013, Cristiano Ronaldo scored a perfect hat-trick in an 10-minute span as Real Madrid beat Getafe 4-0. The defending champions, Real Madrid started the day in third, chasing Atletico Madrid and Barcelona for the league title.
The greatest player of all-time, Wayne Gretzky, had 50 regular season hat tricks in his career, or one in 3.4 percent of his games. A 15-season veteran like Claude Giroux, who has over 300 goals, only has one regular-season hat trick. The point is that hat tricks are rare because they're difficult.
A natural hat trick in hockey is when a player scores three goals in a row in a game without any other goals being scored in between. If a player scores three goals in a single game but the goals are not scored in succession, then it is a regular hat trick.
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 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.
Lionel Messi – 7 (51 games)
Lionel Messi has hit fine form since the beginning of the season and has scored a total of 7 braces for club and country in Ligue 1, the Champions League and also the World Cup final against France.
A hat-trick occurs in association football when a player scores three goals (not necessarily consecutive) in a single game, whereas scoring two goals (in a single match) is called a brace.
In May 2019, aged 18, Erling Haaland scored NINE goals in one game to help Norway beat Honduras 12-0 in the FIFA U-20 World Cup.
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of only two players in football history to score in every minute of a game. The other is Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who also has a prolific record in front of goal. It's a testament to Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic's goalscoring records.
▶ 2019: Erling Haaland scored record 9 goals in game at U20 World Cup. ▶ 2022: Julián Álvarez scored record 6 goals in game for River Plate. Prince Agyei and 6,094 others like this. Man City and PSG: O UCL.
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).
According to Guinness World Records Pelé has scored the most hat-tricks in history, but based on RSSSF's data the record belongs to Erwin Helmchen with at least 141.
The only hat-trick scorers to end on the losing side were Ronaldo (Manchester United 4-3 Real Madrid in 2002/03), Gareth Bale (Inter 4-3 Tottenham, 2010/11), İrfan Can Kahveci (İstanbul Başakşehir 3-4 Leipzig, 2020/21) and Christopher Nkunku (Manchester City 6-3 Leipzig, 2021/22).