Geoff Hurst

I can't think of many footballers who own a single moment as completely as Geoff Hurst owns his hat-trick in the 1966 World Cup final. He scored three against West Germany at Wembley, became the only man to do that in a final, and was later knighted. What strikes me now is the quiet poignancy of his status: after Bobby Charlton's death in 2023, he's the last surviving player from that England side. That makes him less a celebrity than a living archive. He still keeps a presence online, and I find it moving that one afternoon can define and outlast an entire generation of teammates.

Name (English)

Geoff Hurst

Name (Japanese)

ジェフ・ハースト

Reading

じぇふ・はーすと

Born

December 8, 1941 (age 84)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Snake

Origin

Ashton-under-Lyne, United Kingdom

Occupation

association football player / cricketer / autobiographer / association football coach / athlete

Awards & achievements

• Member of the Order of the British Empire
• Knight Bachelor

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttps://geoffhurst.com/
• Xhttps://x.com/TheGeoffHurst
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%95%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88

Tags

• association football player
• cricketer
• autobiographer

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.