Hat trick

Hattrick is an indication to the sport for the particular situation that a certain performance by one player three times in the same match comes.

The term originally comes from the crickets port. In the past, it was common to for an athlete who had delivered exceptional performance, to keep a collection to the public. During a match of the English team took threewickets bowler Stephenson with three consecutive balls, which led to such a collection. Of the proceeds of that collection was then bought a new hat for Stephenson. That was then the use: every time a bowler took three wickets with three consecutive balls, again didn't yield him a new hat or cap on, or, such as that from then on was called "he did the hat-trick", literally translated "he did the hat-trick".

In cricket, the hattrick but very rarely, but in other sports, such as football and hockey, though more often. There is the term used when a particular player scores three times in one game. The condition is often added In the Netherlands that scored three goals in one half without a goal by another player of the same team in between was created. There is then spoken of a ' official ', ' real ', ' pure ' or ' unadulterated ' hattrick. In this context, also mention the "German hat-trick", which is spoken if the 3rd goal is scored in the extension of a (Cup) competition. Also there is the ' perfect hat-trick "in which there are with right, left and with the head is scored.

The term comes originally from the English, and is probably somewhere around 1940 in the Dutch retrieved. In today's language, the term is also often used outside of the sport, when someone has a certain performance delivers three times in a row.