Scoring a hat-trick is an incredible accomplishment. Scoring a perfect hat-trick - where you score a goal with your right foot, left foot and then a header, is even more impressive.
But scoring a perfect dead-ball, in which a player scores a goal from each dead-ball situation, is next level.
And it has been done before.
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Someone posed the question to The Guardian and they uncovered that a player has indeed scored the perfect dead-ball hat-trick in history.
The man with the magnificent achievement to his name is Brazilian midfielder Marcio Richardes. The 35-year old, currently a free agent, completed the dead-ball perfect hat-trick back in 2010 when he was playing for Albirex Niigata in the J-League.
Against Vegalta Sendai, Richardes scored a hat-trick of dead ball goals in a 3-2 win.
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First he slotted home a spot-kick, then he bagged a curling free-kick that left the goalkeeper routed to the spot before following it up with a strike directly from an inswinging corner.
Granted the goals weren't exactly out of this world but it's still utterly ridiculous that a player scored a penalty, free-kick and a corner in the same game.
As far as we know, he's the only player to do so - but do let us know if you had an absolute stormer in Sunday League once and managed to score the perfect dead-ball hat-trick.
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I'm hoping that someone eventually scored the double perfect hat-trick by somehow scoring a headed penalty, a left-footed free-kick and a right-footed corner kick or vice versa; that would be quite something.
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