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Gabriel Batistuta is the correct answer. He scored hat-tricks in both the 1994 and 1998 World Cups for Argentina. No other player has achieved this feat of scoring hat-tricks in two different World Cup tournaments.

Gerd Muller is the correct answer. He scored two hat-tricks in the 1970 World Cup for West Germany - one against Bulgaria and another against Peru. He was a prolific striker and holds this record for most hat-tricks in a single World Cup tournament.

Miroslav Klose is the correct answer. In the 2002 World Cup match against Saudi Arabia, he scored three goals, all from headers. This is a rare feat - only two players have ever scored three headers in a single World Cup match. Tomas Skuhravy was the other (1990).

West Germany's 1962 World Cup quarterfinal loss to Yugoslavia was indeed a catalyst for creating the Bundesliga in 1963 as Germany's first professional national league. Serie A and La Liga already existed, and the Premier League wasn't formed until 1992.

The English Premier League was formed in 1992, with its first season being 1992-93. It replaced the old Football League First Division as England's top-tier football competition.

In the 2008-09 Bundesliga season, FC Nuremberg (1. FC Nürnberg) played in the 2. Bundesliga after being relegated the previous year. SC Freiburg was also in the second tier that year, but Nuremberg is the intended answer for missing the top flight.

Camp Nou, home to FC Barcelona, is the largest stadium in Spain and all of Europe with a capacity of 99,354. Santiago Bernabeu (Real Madrid) is second in La Liga at 81,044. Both venues far exceed the capacities of San Mames and Mestalla.

At the time of the 2008-09 season, Portsmouth was owned by Alexandre Gaydamak (French-Russian), whereas Manchester United, Liverpool, and Arsenal had significant or majority US ownership/investment (Glazer, Gillett/Hicks, and Kroenke respectively).