🎩 Who have scored men's World Cup hat tricks?
Lionel Messi was the most recent player to score a hat trick in the World Cup. See who else joins him on the list in history.
A hat trick -- when a player scores three goals (excluding penalty shootouts) in a single match -- is an exceptional accomplishment in soccer. The feat is held in even higher regard when achieved on the sport's biggest stage, the FIFA World Cup .
American forward Bert Patenaude recorded the first hat trick at a World Cup, scoring each of the three goals in the United States' 3-0 win against Paraguay in the group stage of the inaugural tournament in 1930 in Uruguay .
The then-20-year-old Fall River, Massachusetts, native was the youngest player on the 16-member U.S.
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