Top 20 Most Notable Players Who Have Made World Cup Hat-Tricks

All connoisseurs of good football know: beautiful game is game with goal! He is the apex of the match, is the scream that is stuck all the time in the throat of the fan. That is, a game without a goal, is a game stopped. Better not have happened!

The goal is the crowning of a whole job, the training of the week, a well-delivered kick. But they do not always happen. After all, contrary to what it may seem, scoring a goal is not an easy task! Think about how many good players are together in the same match trying to get a close shot!

Now, dear reader, think of the difficulty of scoring three goals in the same game ?! And score three goals in the same match, but World Cup? Here are 20 of the most notable players who have ever done such a feat in the biggest football tournament in the world! Check out:

1 - Guillermo Stábile

Guillermo was an Argentine striker who was present for the alviceleste national team at the 1930 World Cup and did the scoring three times in one match. The feat took place in a game against Mexico on July 19, 1930.

2 - Angelo Schiavio

Angelo was an Italian striker at the 1934 World Champion Squadra Azurra. He scored all three against the United States on May 27, 1934.

3 - Leonidas da Silva, the "black diamond"

Leonidas was the main Brazilian striker of the 1938 World Cup. Known as the inventor of the "bicycle", he scored in three straight shots against Poland's goal on June 5, 1938.

4 - Ademir Marques de Menezes

Ademir, also known as "peccary" due to the size of the boy's chin, was one of the main names of the Brazilian team in the 1950 World Cup - thus leading the competition. It was in the match against Sweden that Ademir, not content with three, scored four goals in the victory against the Nordic team.

5 - Sandor Kocsis Peter

Sandor was a Hungarian striker and one of the biggest names in football in the first half of the twentieth century. It was at the 1954 World Cup that Sandr did the feat in two different games. He scored three goals against South Korea and, against West Germany, four goals in a single match.

6 - Edson Arantes do Nascimento the Pelé

Pelé, the greatest footballer of all time, was the youngest to play a world cup and to score a hat-trick - as well as being champion. It was against France in the 1958 World Cup semifinal that Pele pushed the ball three times.

7 - Florian Albert

Florian, one of Hungarian football's biggest post-generation gold names (1940-1950s), scored his hat-trick in the first round of the 1962 World Cup against Bulgaria.

8 - Eusébio da Silva Ferreira

Also known as the "black panther", Eusébio was considered the greatest striker of Portuguese football of all time. There were four goals in the quarterfinals of the 1966 World Cup in a match against North Korea.

9 - Gerhard Muller

Also called "Gerd Muller", he was admittedly the biggest name for Bayern Munich and Germany. He did it twice in the same World Cup in 1970: in a game against Bulgaria and then against Peru, both valid for the first phase of the World Cup.

10 - Dusan Bajevic

He was a Yugoslav striker at the 1974 World Cup. He scored his hat-trick against the poor Zaire side, who lost 9-0. Just by the score you can imagine why the three goals of the boy.

11 - Pieter Robert Rensenbrink

Pieter was a Dutch striker who attended the 1978 World Cup. It was in a match against Iran on June 3, 1978 that the Dutch striker scored his three goals.

12 - Paolo Rossi

Paolo was the main name of the Italian national team in winning the third championship of 1982. And it was exactly against Brazil, legendary for their stars - including Socrates, Zico and Junior - that the excellent Italian striker scored the three goals in the same match. Rossi's brilliant performance made him a hangman of our national team and eventually sent us away from that World Cup earlier.

13 - Gary Lineker

Gary was an English striker, the British team's highlight at the 1986 FIFA World Cup. He was the only Englishman to achieve the World Cup top scorer feat, and it was in a match against Poland, valid for the first round of the 1986 World Cup, that Lineker scored his three goals, leading the English team to victory.

14 - Tomas Skuhravy

Tomas was a Czech striker in the 1990 World Cup. Not very reputable and unstarred but scored three goals per round of 16 tie against Costa Rica.

15 - Oleg Anatolyevich Salenko

Oleg is the record-holder of goals in one World Cup match: five against the Cameroon team, valid for the first round of the 1994 World Cup. Even though he had a great success at the beginning of his career, a serious injury cut short his football life. from Salenko.

16 - Gabriel Omar Batistuta

Batistuta was an Argentine striker, top scorer in the history of the national team and one of the big names of the blue and white team of all time. “Batigol” - as he was known - scored three goals against Jamaica's weaker side in a first-leg game of the 1998 World Cup.

17 - Miroslav Josef Klose

Klose is a German striker of Polish origin, considered one of the biggest names in 21st century German football, as well as being the top scorer in the history of the Cup with 16 goals. He scored a hat-trick in a game valid for the first round of the 2002 World Cup against Saudi Arabia.

18 - Gonzalo Gerardo Higuaín

He is an Argentine striker, considered one of the big names of the new generation, along with other stars like Messi and Di Maria. He scored three times against South Korea in the first phase of the 2010 World Cup.

19 - Thomas Muller

Thomas is a German striker, great star of the 2014 World Champion German squad. He scored three times against Portugal in the Brazil World Cup, still in the first phase of the competition.

20 - Xherdan Shaqiri

He is a Swiss striker, known for his short stature (1.69m) and great ability. Considered a star of the new generation of world football, he achieved his goal by scoring three times against the Honduran team during the first phase of the 2014 World Cup.

* This text is written by Mathews Campos Barbosa.