Most Goals by an MLS Player in a National Team Game

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  1. EvanJ

    EvanJ Member+

    Manchester United
    United States
    Mar 30, 2004
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Chicago's Yura Movsisyan scored 4 goals, including 3 in 6 minutes, in Armenia's 6-2 win at Gibraltar. What's the most goals by an MLS player in a national team game? The player must have been on an MLS club at that time.
     
  2. Ismitje

    Ismitje Super Moderator

    Dec 30, 2000
    The Palouse
    Club:
    Real Salt Lake
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    No MLS player has ever played against Gibraltar before. ;)
     
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  3. An Unpaved Road

    An Unpaved Road Member+

    Mar 22, 2006
    Club:
    --other--
    Has an American MLSer had four? I can think of a few hat tricks.
     
  4. newtex

    newtex Member+

    May 25, 2005
    Houston
    Club:
    Houston Dynamo
    Here are the all-time stats for the USA national team:

    USA, Most goals,match, individual
    4 (four times)
    Archie Stark, 11/8/25 vs. Canada
    Aldo “Buff” Donelli, 5/24/34 vs. Mexico *
    Joe-Max Moore, 12/5/93 vs. El Salvador
    Landon Donovan, 7/19/03 vs. Cuba

    Landon Donovan was playing for San Jose in the summer of 2003.

    1993 was pre-MLS but, notably, Joe-Max Moore was not yet a professional player when he did it.

    The Donelli one back in 1934 was in a World Cup qualifier played in Rome the week before the 1934 Italy World Cup started. Donelli even missed a penalty kick in the game or he might have had 5.
     
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  5. EvanJ

    EvanJ Member+

    Manchester United
    United States
    Mar 30, 2004
    Club:
    Manchester United FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I thought about MLS players who faced poor national teams. Outside of Concacaf, Joel Lindpere played for Estonia at Andorra on October 16, 2012, and Andorra was 201st in the FIFA Rankings then. Lindpere was on the Red Bulls then. He scored 19 goals in MLS with 5 of them in 2012.
     

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