Nostalgia: the Hungarian Sándor Kocsis and the German Gerd Müller, prolific scorers
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Each week, FIFA stinks on a record in the FIFA ™ World Cup. Zoom today on the exploits of Sándor Kocsis and Gerd Müller.
Unsurprisingly, the story has retained the name of most of the authors of triplets in the FIFA World Cup ™. From Pelé to Kylian Mbappé via Just Fontaine, Eusebio, Geoff Hurst, Paolo Rossi or Cristiano Ronaldo, this honor board says a lot about a whole part of the history of football.
Two players from this prestigious list, however, pushed virtuosity to register at least three goals in two consecutive matches in the competition. The first is the Hungarian Sándor Kocsis.
It is as a great pretender to the title that the eleven of gold Magyar arrived in Switzerland for the 1954 World Cup. The Hungarians confirmed from the outset that it would be necessary to count with them by dominating the Republic of Korea on the without appeal score of 9-0.
During this meeting, the immense Ferenc Puskás offered himself a double, but Kocsis, his friend of the attack, managed to overshadow it by splitting a magnificent hat -trick. Despite this thunderous departure, it was in the next match that the Magyars really knocked out the competition. Opposite, however, it was western Germany that arose, an opponent of a standing far superior to that of the modest South Koreans. The Hungarians, however, made a bite by winning 8-3 thanks in particular to an incredible quadruple of… Kocsis.
The Germans took their revenge in the final by winning 3-2, to everyone’s surprise. Despite this misstep which deprived them forever in a world title which they have never been so close again, the Hungarians did not have to be ashamed of a competition which they will have overflown and of which Kocsis was top scorer with 11 achievements on the clock.
Sixteen years later, it was Gerd Müller’s turn to register two consecutive triplets in the Queen competition.
Renard of the surfaces par excellence, the German also opened his counter in the first match of Western Germany in Mexico 1970, against Morocco (2-1). It was nevertheless in the second match, against Bulgaria (5-2), that he managed to register his first hat-trick and that he really found his cruise rate.
Nicknamed “Le Bombardier”, Müller chained with another hat-trick which validated, from the first period, a 3-1 victory of his selection on Peru. Western Germany has finished the competition in third place, but Gerd Müller left Mexico with a nice consolation batch since he won the Golden Shoe allocated to the top scorer in the competition thanks to his 10 goals.
Four years later, it was he who was the author of the goal of victory in the final against the Netherlands (2-1) and he could finally lift the trophy of the World Cup.
