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Either will do, but Terry edges it for me.
Here's a nice statistic-type thingy from FIFA today:
No hat-tricks for the first time?
2 July 2006
by FIFAworldcup.com
After 60 games and a total of 138 goals, the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany™ is still waiting for its first hat-trick.
If the tournament runs to its conclusion without a three-goal haul it will be the first time that this has happened in a FIFA World Cup. There were no less than seven hat-tricks at Switzerland 1954 and five at France 1938. Four came at Mexico 1986 and also at Spain 1982.
Portugal's Pauleta is the last hat-trick marksman with his trio in the 4-0 defeat of Poland in Jeonju on 10 June 2002. The full list of hat-trick scorers at FIFA World Cups is:
2002: Pauleta (Portugal v Poland); Miroslav Klose (Germany v Saudi Arabia)
1998: Gabriel Batistuta (Argentina v Jamaica)
1994: Oleg Salenko (Russia v Cameroon); Batistuta (Argentina v Greece)
1990: Tomas Skuhravy (Czechoslovakia v Costa Rica); Michel (Spain v Korea Republic)
1986: Emilio Butragueno (Spain v Denmark); Igor Belanov (Russia v Belgium); Preben Elkjar-Arsen (Denmark v Uruguay); Gary Lineker (England v Poland)
1982: Paolo Rossi (Italy v Brazil); Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (Germany v Chile); Laszlo Kiss (Hungary v El Salvador); Zbigniew Boniek (Poland v Belgium)
1978: Rob Rensenbrink (Netherlands v Iran); Teofilo Cubillas (Peru v Iran) 1974: Andrzej Szarmach (Poland v Haiti); Dusan Bajevic (Yugoslavia v Zaire) 1970: Gerd Muller (Germany v Bulgaria, v Peru)
1966: Geoff Hurst (England v Germany); Eusebio (Portugal v Korea DPR) 1962: Florian Albert (Hungary v Bulgaria)
1958: Pele (Brazil v France); Just Fontaine (France v Paraguay, v Germany)
1954: Sandor Kocsis (Hungary v Korea Republic, v Germany); Carlos Borges (Uruguay v Scotland); Sargun Burham (Turkey v Korea Republic); Sepp Huegi (Switzerland v Austria); Erich Probst (Austria v Czechosolovakia); Theodor Wagner (Austria v Switzerland); Max Morlock (Germany v Turkey)
1950: Ademir (Brazil v Sweden); Oscar Miguez (Uruguay v Bolivia)
1938: Ernest Wilimowski (Poland v Brazil); Gyula Zsengeller (Hungary v Sweden); Tore Keller (Sweden v Cuba); Gustav Wetterstrom (Sweden v Cuba); Leonidas (Brazil v Poland)
1934: Angelo Schiavio (Italy v USA); Edmund Conen (Germany v Belgium)
1930: Pedro Cea (Uruguay v Yugoslavia); Guillermo Stabile (Argentina v Mexico)
In that Russia vs Cameroon match in 1994, I think Salenko actually scored four, but Russia went out anyway.
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