Football Fans
Football Fans Love The Hat Trick by Daniel Millions
As with any sport, soccer or football in the U.K has its
elusive accomplishments that make individual players stand
out from the average. The hat trick is an especially
difficult standout performance and will definitely gain the
successful performer a place in the record books.
Specifically the hat trick refers to scoring three goals in
one game. The term originated in the game of cricket with
the awarding of a hat to a bowler who managed to take three
wickets. It has been utilized in soccer with several
variations on the theme. While the normal hat trick
designation is awarded for any player that makes three
goals, it is considered a "flawless" hat trick if all three
goals are scored in a single period of play and no other
player has scored between them.
The "golden" or "perfect" hat trick takes a little more
effort and expertise. To be awarded with the designation of
"perfect" the three goals must be accomplished by making one
goal with each foot and one from off the head of the player.
While hats are not given in soccer it has become traditional
for the game ball to be presented to the player that can
successfully complete this maneuver. It should be noted that
penalty shots are not counted towards the successful
completion of a hat trick.
To date, the fastest hat trick was performed in 1964 at
Victoria Park in Dingwall. In a fast paced game against
Nairn County, Tommy Ross of the Ross County Football
Conference succeeded in making three goals in a ninety
second time period. Each league and conference maintains its
own records of the hat trick as it is such an outstanding
play accomplishment. In Premiership play, for instance,
Robbie Fowler of Liverpool took only four and a half minutes
to make their hat trick record against Arsenal in a 1994
game.
The World Cup competitions have twice seen players
accomplish two hat tricks in the same game. In 1958 Just
Fontaine succeeded in a double hat trick and Gerd Muller
followed in the 1970 World Cup with his successful
completion of this tricky maneuver. The Argentinean Gabriel
Batistuta is renown for having scored the hat trick in two
separate World Cup championships in both 1994 and 1998.
Besides showing top competitive skills by managing to
complete the hat trick, the maneuver is also quite often the
deciding factor in a team's victory. The hat trick maneuver
is present in all levels of the sport from elementary school
soccer games to the professional play in all leagues and
conferences world-wide.
The hat trick is such an outstanding performance that
individual hat trick successes have been filmed and released
in video compilations of Great Moments in Sports. There is
no better way to demonstrate the quality and skill of a
player than through performing this feat. That soccer is a
team effort at all times shows that not only the individual
player but the entire team is performing at a high level of
expertise.
The hat trick is so popular with enthusiasts that it has
lent its name to soccer video games and online team
management games. It has found its way into the names of
game pitches like Oklahoma City's Hat Trick Indoor Soccer
Arena. While the hat trick may not have originated in
soccer, soccer has taken it over and made it their own.
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