'The first player to record a World Cup hat trick was an American. '
Bert Patenaude, a member of the U.S. Soccer Hall of Fame, scored the first hat trick in World Cup history in a match against Paraguay at the inaugural World Cup in 1930 in a U.S. win, 3-0. The achievement was in dispute for decades, in part because Argentina's Guillermo Stabile scored a hat trick two days later. However, FIFA officially confirmed Patenaude's hat trick in November of 2006.