Football is one of the most famous sports, and more precisely, the most. Many fans and fans around the world unite in communities, cheer for their favorite club, monitor the lives of football players and bet on the expected outcome. Football is a whole industry that intersects with media, media, sports, economics and even politics.
This sport is everywhere - it is associated with the consciousness of almost every person and plays an important role in his life. Among the football community there are a number of certain concepts that can be summarized under the term “slang”. One of the most extravagant and amazing concepts is poker in football. Yes, it is connected with a card game, it happened so historically. What is it about, and what does it mean? Now let's figure it out.
History
It is known that with two goals scored by one football player it is believed that he scored a “double”. When the number of goals scored is three, again by one player, the event is called a “hat trick”. From English, this phrase translates as “hat-trick”. This is not only the name of goals in football; in other sports, this means some positive achievement related to the number “3”.
If you go deeper into history, then the roots grow from the culture of British tricks of the XIX century. It is known that in 1858 cricket player Heathfield Harman Stevenson overcame three wickets in a row, thereby impressing the fans, for which they raised money and presented the athlete with a hat as a sign of achievement.
So what is poker in football?
Let's go back to football and goals scored by one player. There is also such a thing as poker in football. How many goals are you know? Poker is four goals scored in one match by one player. Achievement is considered very authoritative, because not everyone can fulfill it. A lot of professional footballers finish their playing career without a formal poker.
Such an abundance of goals often happens in matches with unequal teams. Some can score 6–7 goals at the gates of others, of which 4 belong to a certain forward or midfielder. In this situation, poker is formed much more often than in other cases.
Communication with a card game
The concept of "poker" in football is directly related to the card game of the same name. In Russian, poker is a combination of five cards of the same seniority. Due to the fact that there are only four cards of the same rank in the deck, under the fifth they mean the joker. The usual combination of four cards of the same rank is called a square (without a joker).
However, the situation will be completely different if we take into account European terminology. In English, Spanish and Italian, the word poker means four cards of the same seniority! To summarize, we can say that poker in football is four goals scored by one player. The fact is that the word "four of a kind" in poker is used only in French. Perhaps historically this word has been introduced into the Russian language. And most importantly - the four goals scored by one player in football, the French call poker.
Modern names of goals: take, hat, poker in football
In modern journalism, the following designations of the number of goals of one author are valid:
- 2 goals - double;
- 3 goals - hat trick;
- 4 goals - poker;
- 5 goals - penta-trick (penta translated from Greek - five);
- 6 goals - double hat-trick or hexa-trick;
- 7 goals - an octa-trick.
A further number of goals scored is indicated by many different phrases borrowed from different languages. The abundance of name variations is explained by the fact that in football this happens extremely rarely. For example, in Russian, five goals can refer to as a “star”, and seven goals to a “week”. There are a lot of options.
Penta-trick from Robert Lewandowski to the gate of Wolfsburg
On September 22, 2015, in the sixth round match of the German Bundesliga between Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg, the fastest hat-trick, poker and penta-trick in the history of football took place.
In the second half, the Polish forward of the “Bavarians” Robert Lewandowski replaced the Spanish central midfielder Thiago Alcantara. At the time of the second half, Wolfsbrug led 0-1. In the period from the 51st to the 60th minute of the match, Lewandowski scored as many as five goals, breaking all world football records. This penta-trick was realized in nine minutes of playing time and became the fastest poker in the history of football.
Surprisingly, the Polish striker was able to print the opponent’s goal five times. At the 26th minute, the score was opened by Daniel Caligiuri, and at the end of the first half, the goalkeeper “Reds” Manuel Neuer almost brought the second goal into his own net.
Benefit of Polish Goleador Robert Lewandowski
With the beginning of the second half of the game started the performance of the Polish striker of Bayern. In the 51st minute, the first goal of Robert Lewandowski was scored in the goal net of Diego Benallo. Already in the 52nd minute, after the filing of Douglas Costa, the Pole issued a double. The atmosphere at the Alliance Arena stadium was inspired, the fans and fans of the Reds tasted the probable victory of their team, but more.
At the 55th minute, Lewandowski hit the third goal into the opponent’s goal, but from the third attempt, Benallo did not save this time. To implement a hat-trick, the Polish footballer needed 3 minutes and 22 seconds, by this he had already set the Bundesliga record. Two and a half minutes later, Robert's fourth goal flew in - the fastest poker in football, and two more happened the fastest penta-trick in the history of football.
The impression of the coach of Bayern after the legendary match, the words of the hero of the occasion
For Wolfsburg, of course, it was all over - the team lost with a shameful score of 5: 1 in the match, which soon became historic. Bayern head coach Josep Guardiola, in a post-match interview, could not gather his thoughts and words together with admiration. The Reds mentor said that he was shocked by the game of his striker, because the opponent was really a tough nut: “I’m not sure that someday I will see something similar again. Sometimes football is crazy. ”
Robert himself said that he did not feel otherwise during this game - this day was no different from other days. He could not have imagined such an achievement, as the player admitted: “I just concentrated on the game, because we were losing. The first goal was very important both for me and for the whole team. Due to this, we were able to show quality football. ”
Similar achievements in other European leagues.
It is known that the football players were already able to score five goals per match, however, Robert Lewandowski was ahead of everyone in the amount of time spent. It was not only the fastest realization of five goals in the history of German football, but also among all the competitive national championships of Europe, which include the Spanish Primera, the English Premier League and the Italian Serie A.
For example, in Spain, a similar achievement belongs to Ladislav Kubala, who in 1952 scored five goals in 19 minutes.
In the Premier League, Jermain Defoe managed to distinguish himself five times during the match in 2009, the Englishman set his record in 36 minutes of playing time.
In Italy, the penta-trick was made by Miroslav Klose. In 2013, the German striker boarded up five “cans” in 39 minutes.
11 goals per match
In May 2016, the 38-year-old Spanish footballer Pedro Carrion scored 11 goals in one match in the Gibraltar league. This happened in the duel of his team “Europe” against the club “Britannia XI”. The total score of the match was 16: 1.
The Spanish striker has never scored more than four goals before, throughout his football career. Even Ronaldo and Messi can envy this achievement !