page_title: Geoff Hurst
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Geoff Hurst / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: no original description West Ham Champions statue, Upton Park - left to right, Martin Peters, Geoff Hurst, Bobby Moore (aloft), Ray Wilson. עברית: פסל באצטדיון אפטון פארק המשמש את קבוצת וסטהאם יונייטד ומנציח את שחקניה שזכו במונדיאל 1966 (משמאל לימין): ג'ף הרסט, מרטין פיטרס, בובי מור (למעלה), ריי וילסון
context_page_description: Sir Geoffrey Charles Hurst MBE is an English former professional footballer. A striker, he remains the only man to score a hat-trick in a World Cup final, when England recorded a 4–2 victory over West Germany at Wembley Stadium in 1966.
  Hurst began his career with West Ham United, where he scored 242 goals in 500 first team appearances. There he won the FA Cup in 1964 and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1965. He was sold to Stoke City in 1972 for £80,000. After three seasons with Stoke he finished his Football League career with West Bromwich Albion in 1976. Hurst went to play football in Ireland and the USA before returning to England to manage non-league Telford United. He also coached in the England set-up before a two-year stint as Chelsea manager from 1979 to 1981. He later coached Kuwait SC before leaving the game to concentrate on his business commitments.
  In total he scored 24 goals in 49 England appearances, and as well as success in the 1966 World Cup he also appeared at UEFA Euro 1968 and the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He also had a brief cricket career, making one First-class appearance for Essex in 1962, before concentrating on football.
context_section_description: In 2003 Hurst was included in The Champions, a statue of 1966 World Cup winning footballers, by sculptor Philip Jackson. It sits at the junctions of Barking Road and Central Park Road, Newham, London, near to the site of West Ham United's former home stadium, the Boleyn Ground and features Martin Peters, Hurst, Bobby Moore and Ray Wilson.
  Hurst's contribution to the English game was recognised in 2004 when he was inducted in the English Football Hall of Fame. Hurst is also one of the few footballers who have been knighted.
  A statue of Hurst was unveiled outside Curzon Ashton F.C.'s ground in 2010. He is shown alongside two other World Cup winners born in the area, fellow 1966 squad member Jimmy Armfield, and Simone Perrotta, who won it with Italy in 2006.
caption: World Cup Sculpture – Hurst second from left
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