What Is a Brace In Football?

Brace stands for “two of a kind.” In football, a brace is the accomplishment of one player scoring twice in one match, not necessarily consecutively. Similarly, a hat trick is scoring three goals in a single game. Goals scored during the regulation 90 minutes and extra time count. The goals in a penalty shootout don’t.

Christiano Ronaldo scored the most braces in the Champions League, with 38 collected, followed by Messi, who scored 34.

Alex Torr set a record for the fastest hat trick in a Sunday league game in 2013, which took 70 seconds.

There is a brace – scoring two goals, a hat trick – scoring three goals, and an even more extended version of the term—the perfect hat trick. The perfect hat trick happens when a player scores one goal with their right foot, the second with their left, and the third with their head.

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