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Watch A 16-Year-Old Complete A World Cup Hat Trick With A Bicycle Kick


It’s been quite the U-17 FIFA World Cup for 16-year-old Cote d’Ivoire star Souleymane Coulibaly.

The striker followed up his four-goal performance against Denmark with a hat trick Sunday in Guadalajara against world superpower Brazil. While the match resulted in a 3-3 draw when Brazil scored the equalizer with seconds left of injury time, it wasn’t enough to take the shine off Coulibaly’s remarkable third goal, on a bicycle kick off a corner:

Coulibaly has scored all eight goals for the Elephants in their three World Cup matches thus far, and is earning praise as the “new Didier Drogba” with clubs as esteemed as Real Madrid seeking to make the teenager from one of Earth’s poorest countries a millionaire.



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