What is a "hat trick"?

"Hat-trick" means: scoring three goals in a single soccer match.

"Hat-trick" originated from cricket:

Messi's first career hat-trick came on March 10, 2007, in the 26th round of La Liga, when Barcelona scored 3-3 against Real Madrid. A unique hat trick, Messi's extraordinary ability to conquer everyone, including Real Madrid boss Capello.

In modern soccer, a player who scores three goals in a match is called a "hat trick". In fact, the earliest hat-tricks did not come from soccer, but from the popular game of cricket in England in the 1870s. Since cricket, all fans who enter the cricket ground to watch the game strictly abide by a rule: once stepped into the stadium gate must take off their hats, which means that all players, umpires and spectators on the field of respect. Generally speaking, it is quite a miraculous thing if a bowler bowls three strikes in a row and knocks out three opposing players. When a cricket club encounters such a situation, it awards that bowler a hat as a symbol of supreme honor. In short, the term "hat trick" originally meant that a cricketer scored runs off three consecutive balls and was rewarded with a hat. The term didn't appear in print until the 1870s, when it was gradually introduced into soccer, where it remains today.

On the soccer pitch, there is another word for "mei kai duo":

Lionel Messi has 58 "mei kai duo" in his Barcelona career***. It is said that individual Spanish media with a little knowledge of Chinese, in the Chinese media sports reports to find out the Chinese word "MeiKaiDou" after the word is simply for Messi to create. In today's soccer world, there is no player who can get more "MeiKaiDouDou" than Messi?

In soccer, often used "Mei Kai Erdu" to describe a player scored two goals in a game, in fact, "Mei Kai Erdu" this word is from the traditional Chinese opera play "Erdu Mei", "Erdu Mei" protagonist Mei Liangyu father was framed by a traitor, he got away with it. The main character of "Erduomei", Mei Liangyu, whose father was framed by a treacherous minister, was rescued and sent to live with his father's best friend, Chen Risheng, who treated Mei Liangyu as if he were a traitor. Chen Risheng treats Mei Liangyu as if he were his own son, and often takes him to pay homage to his father by the plum tree in the garden. One day, the blossoming plum blossoms were withered by the wind and rain of the night. Mei Liangyu sincerely worshiped again, praying for the plum blossoms to bloom again. Sincerity moved heaven and earth, and the result was that the garden was really full of fragrance and the plum blossoms bloomed twice! This is an auspicious omen, Mei Liangyu eventually finished his studies in Beijing, won the first prize, and Chen Risheng's daughter and the qin and the good.