Bert Patenaude

Bertram ( " Bert" ) Patenaude (* November 4, 1909 in Fall River, Massachusetts, † November 4, 1974 ) was an American soccer player who scored the first three goals in a match of the World Cup finals. His parents were French-Canadians.

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Career

Association

Patenaude played in the professional American Soccer League. Although his birth city of Fall River was one of the centers of the East Coast football, he began his career in 1928 with the Philadelphia Field Club, but he changed that same season after a brief stop at J & P Coats for two years on the Fall River Marksmen, then briefly to the Newark Americans and again to the Marksmen back. With the Fall River, the striker won the 1930 U.S. Open Cup. In the final first leg, as Patenaude was missing, his team won 7-2 against the Cleveland Bruell Insurance. Only in the second leg, a 2-1 success, the striker was one of the party. However, results did not succeed. The following year the team again reached the final. Again, the club won the first leg significantly, with Patenaude scored five goals in a 6-2 victory against the Chicago Bricklayers. The return match -1: 1 lost after the landslide victory in the first encounter important, given also the third decisive game was finished victorious 2-0. Again Patenaude could meet again. During the season 1931, the club named after a merger and relocation to order in the New York Yankees. Soon played the offensive player for the New York Giants. After re-establishment of ASL as a semi- professional league he played for the Philadelphia German -Americans, the Philadelphia Passon and from 1935 for the St. Louis Central Breweries, with whom he in the same year for the third time in his career, the final of the U.S. Open Cup reached. After 5:2 and 1:3, they made sure just the title. Patenaude was active in both games. For the following year was called the club and in the St. Louis Shamrocks order. Once again, the club reached the final of the Open Cup, but failed at the Philadelphia German -Americans. 2-2 first leg Patenaude was still over the full season on the court, in the second leg he was only a spectator and could only sit and watch in the 0-3 defeat. In the first ( professional ) ASL he came to a total of 124 league matches and 118 goals. In 1936 he moved again and finally the Philadelphia Passon joined them. in the season 1938/39, he scored 24 goals for them in the National Division and was the best attacker in the league. The team reached the semi-finals at the National Championship, but failed there at Philadelphia German - American. Shortly after Patenaude played only in an east coast selection against the national team of Scotland and later with an American All- Star team against the same team.

Patenaude was inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame in 1971.

National

Patenaude, who has played only four caps for the United States, is considered the first footballer who scored during a World Cup tournament a hat-trick. 1930 nominated him coach Robert Millar in the banns of the United States for the World Cup in Uruguay. His World Cup debut Patenaude on July 13, 1930 against Belgium. 21 minutes before the end succeeded in doing his World Cup Premierentor, with which he marked the end of the 3-0 opening win. Three days later, on July 17, 1930 in the World Cup game against Paraguay, he then scored the first hat-trick in World Cup history. The first goal he scored in the 10th minute of the encounter. The second goal, five minutes later, the scholars argue. The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation describes it as own goal by Aurelio González, according to decades of a maintained position of FIFA, it was a regular U.S. goal by Tom Florie, the U.S. Soccer Federation and now also officially the FIFA write this goal, however, Patenaude about. This was followed later still 3-0 in the 50th minute. Two days later in the same tournament Argentine Guillermo Stábile also scored a hat-trick then. Through the two successes, the team qualified for the semifinals of the tournament, failed there, but clearly after 1:6 against Argentina. Patenaude came in every game of the World Cup for use.

Although Patenaude came only four international appearances, he scored six goals in those games yet.

Achievements

Association

  • U.S. Open Cup with Fall River: 1930, 1931
  • U.S. Open Cup with St. Louis Central Breweries: 1935
  • Winners of the ASL with Fall River: 1928 /28, 1929, 1930
  • Winners of the ASL with New York Giants: 1931

Individually

  • Inclusion in the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame: 1971
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