Ali Gerba gets Impact's first ever hat trick

[Oldtimer]

5-0 win in an away game:

MONTREAL - Ali Gerba didn’t know he was the first Impact player to score three goals in a game until told by The Gazette.
“Oh boy, that’s something,” Gerba said Sunday. “But really the important thing is that we won a game we had to. We all played very well.”
The 23-year-old striker, scoreless in six games since joining the Impact July 15, scored three times in the first half to power the Impact to a resounding 5-0 victory over Crystal Palace in Baltimore Saturday.

Gerba, along with teammates Rocco Placentino and team captain Nevio Pizzolitto and several others, had been called out by Impact president Joey Saputo last Monday for lack of leadership and commitment with the club in a funk and facing the possibility of missing the USSF Division-2 Pro League playoffs after winning the championship last year.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/sports/Gerba+nets+Impact+first+trick/3428188/story.html

Joey knew what he was doing...

Time to cue the complaints...

[Pachuco]

Good for Ali, he deservedly got called out, but he responded in the best way possible. We'll see if this is a fluke or of he builds from this momentum.

[razor787]

Good for him. Hopefully this puts him on good form, and he can bang in a few mroe in games to come. He definately needs something to get his career going. Without club stability, its no wonder he doesnt score too many. This might be just what he needs to finish off the season with a decent strike record.

[wzhxvy]

Ali is 23 ? :-) I think not. Maybe Preki should have called him out instead of kicking him off the team...ah well...whatever

[James17930]

Guys, c'mon -- this will last one game and he'll be back to slowly wandering around the pitch in no time.

[Brooker]

Nice to see he's finally found his level.... 2nd division.

He also went 6 games without a goal, right?

[razor787]

Ali is 23 ? :-) I think not. Maybe Preki should have called him out instead of kicking him off the team...ah well...whatever

Yea, he is definately not 23. I checked wiki, and that has him as 27. No way any 23 year old has as many pro teams as gerba :P

[Technorgasm]

Sonny, JDGs step bro. . complains up and down abotu Ali getting let go. . weekly.
ini fact I was just out for a smoke with him and again he came up. .

then we coem back in to THIS news.

our asses are just BEGGING to get bit on this one. . . Preki would have kept him. can we switch him with surplus-to-requirements OBW?

[tfcleeds]

When I first read the thread title, I thought it referred to a hat-trick of pie trucks...

[Pachuco]

Sonny, JDGs step bro. . complains up and down abotu Ali getting let go. . weekly.
ini fact I was just out for a smoke with him and again he came up. .

then we coem back in to THIS news.

our asses are just BEGGING to get bit on this one. . . Preki would have kept him. can we switch him with surplus-to-requirements OBW?

One hat trick in a lower division doesn't exactly prove he would've done the same in the MLS. So I'm not sure how THIS news changes anything.

[Keystone FC]

Wait a minute. In ALL of the Impacts history they have never had a player score a hat trick until Ali? WOW!

[Oldtimer]

Wait a minute. In ALL of the Impacts history they have never had a player score a hat trick until Ali? WOW!

That's a good point. They were founded in 1992.

[menefreghista]

My memory sucks, but I can't remember TFC ever getting a hat trick in MLS play.

Some one feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[Whoop]

Has not happened in MLS play.

Only hat trick in the history of TFC was DeRo getting one in Montreal in 2009.

[menefreghista]

Has not happened in MLS play.

Only hat trick in the history of TFC was DeRo getting one in Montreal in 2009.

Thanks, that's what I thought.

[Roogsy]

I am happy for Ali. I am hoping he finds regular good form and is back on the CMNT spectrum.

[ensco]

A dutch second division player almost got 3 of them yesterday

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/bl...urn=sow-264201

[Brooker]

A dutch second division player almost got 3 of them yesterday

http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/soccer/bl...urn=sow-264201

lmao! 8 goals in his debut?

[razor787]

pffft... When someone gets a hat trick of a hat trick of hat tricks, THEN I will be impressed.















and for those of you who are doing the math... thats 27 goals

[Petor]

"FORWARD ALI GERBA NAMED USSF SECOND DIVISION PLAYER OF THE MONTH"
http://www.montrealimpact.com/News/N...D=1475&Focus=0

[Hitcho]

pffft... When someone gets a hat trick of a hat trick of hat tricks, THEN I will be impressed.

and for those of you who are doing the math... thats 27 goals

Didn't australia beat someone like iran 27-0 in a world cup qualifying play off game or something? obviously not all by one player though!

[Roogsy]

Ali is going to come back next year and burn us for a goal or two in the NCC. I am sure of it.

[menefreghista]

Didn't australia beat someone like iran 27-0 in a world cup qualifying play off game or something? obviously not all by one player though!

It wasn't Iran, it was a small south pacific island. New Caledonia or Fiji or some other country like that.

[Brooker]

Ali is going to come back next year and burn us for a goal or two in the NCC. I am sure of it.

Which is why somebody needs to waffle him with a tire iron in the parking lot before the game.

[Toronto Ruffrider]

Didn't australia beat someone like iran 27-0 in a world cup qualifying play off game or something? obviously not all by one player though!

Australia 31:0 American Samoa. Archie Thompson netted 13.

[rocker]

Ali is going to come back next year and burn us for a goal or two in the NCC. I am sure of it.

That's predicated on Ali sticking with a team more than one season
What are the odds?

[deschamp86]

Gerba scored another two for Montreal tonight.

So in the past three games he has scored seven goals.

[Roogsy]

That's predicated on Ali sticking with a team more than one season
What are the odds?

Well, unlike his last team, his current team is actually giving minutes on the pitch. So I am guessing there is a good chance.

[ag futbol]

Video evidence here (get your prozak ready)

http://www.rds.ca/zv2/?categorie=impact

[Oldtimer]

Gerba scored another two for Montreal tonight.

So in the past three games he has scored seven goals.

Yet another TFC striker catches fire after leaving the club.

Obviously, coaching is the issue. Gerba himself said as much.