5 footballers who scored a hat-trick on their full league debut

#3 Christian Vieri

"To be honest I was not very good at football when I was younger, I loved cricket and when I started to get results with my team I dreamt of becoming the next Allan Border."

This is what Christian Vieri actually said. This is a man that wanted to become a cricketer and emulate Allan Border and also claimed that he wasn’t entirely great at football during his younger days.

However, in the end, he not only turned out to be a great player but defined an entire era during his time. He was the archetypical predatory striker who found the net often.

In his league debut with Inter, who signed him for a world record sum of €49 million, he scored a hattrick against Verona to give his team a 3-0 win. He went on to score 103 league goals for Inter in 143 games, shutting the mouths of the critics who questioned his transfer price.