Massachusetts, June 26 -- France forward Ousmane Dembele scripted history as he became the first player to net a first-half hat trick at the FIFA World Cup since Oleg Salenko in 1994.

Dembele achieved this feat against Norway in their final FIFA World Cup group stage match at Foxborough on Friday.

Dembele's hat-trick just 32 minutes into this game is the second earliest a player has scored a FIFA World Cup hat-trick in a match, behind Erich Probst in 1954 for Austria against Czechoslovakia (24 minutes), as per OptaJoe.

Dembele completed his hat-trick just 32 minutes into the match, the second-fastest hat-trick from kick-off in FIFA World Cup history. Only Erich Probst reached the milestone quicker, doing so in 24 minutes for Austria ag...