The ultimate aim of Football is to score more goals that your opposition. However, scoring multiple goals by one player brings with it a whole series of terms.And you know how much I like to delve into such words!
If a player scores two goals in a game:
The term used is the word brace, a noun which comes from Middle English and Anglo-French. It originates from hunting terminology, where it was used to describe a pair of hunted animals (such as birds or hares) caught in a single trip.
If a prayer scores three goals in a game:
The word for this is hat-trick which actually is a term coming from British cricket. In that sport, when a player retired three batsmen with three consecutive balls, the club usually gave him a new hat to honour his accomplishment. Traditionally, a football player who scores a hat-trick is allowed to keep the match ball as a memento.
A little bit of Googling brings forward some other goal terms used (although of course these are increasingly rare):
4 goals by one player is a haul,
5 goals by one player is a glut,
6 goals by one player is a double hat-trick,
7 goals by one player is a haul-trick.
