What is a brace in football?

Often times hearing this in FIFA news these days.

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If a football player scores two goals in a game, it is called a brace. Brace, in old English, means a pair of something, typically of birds or mammals killed in hunting.

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If a player scores 3 goals, it is called a hat-trick, 4 = haul, 5 = glut, 6 = double hat-trick, and 7 = haul-trick.

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