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Matthew Hoppe has World Cup hope after making Boro move

Hoppe made history on just his sixth appearance for FC Schalke when he became the first American to score a hat-trick in the Bundesliga. The Royal Blues were on the verge of setting an unwanted record of going 31 games without a win but Hoppe’s hat-trick rescued them from the brink. Schalke did inevitably succumb to relegation at the end of the 2020/21 campaign but Hoppe was the one bright spark in a very dark season in Gelsenkirchen.