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Callum McCowatt (Silkeborg IF | Denmark)

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YoungHeartHM
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Scores a hat trick against Copenhagen, to go with his man of the match award from the other day. 🥶😁


Left foot, right foot & head. Perfect!

Chris Woods-esque that header. 🤩

Won't see it happen at either club or international level as he's very productive playing out wide, but he just looks like a #9 incognito doesn't he? 

Any striker worth his salt viewing that back would have watched on with just a touch of envy.
Flashback to an earlier Callum McCowatt hat-trick, the 2019 national league final.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj3fU5PvzWc

In hindsight, that team was stacked,  a frontline of Just, deJong, McCowatt was very fluid and they could all play in each others position.


https://youtu.be/bj3fU5PvzWc

Just made it a tap and go link. Geez, the names on top of that. A younger Payney, Basalaj, Joel Stevens, Parker-Price… and of course that quality front 3. Should we be playing de Jong too?? He had a bit of a look in playing off Wood at one point and didn’t do too badly. Thanks for that! How did we never get that McCowatt fizzing at the Nix?

Edit: had a quick check and this is far and away his best season in football so far, apart from that Eastern Suburbs season, where Eastern basically had too much talent above the level of the league? 


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6 months ago
Niche Cache. Post game interview.

https://youtu.be/Yc3DDJ11L1w

Callum McCowatt: “Yeah, no, it’s nice. It’s my first professional hat-trick so it’s a nice one to cross off. Quite a cool place to do it as well, I think, probably the nicest stadium in Denmark against I’d say the best team in Denmark right now. It’s quite okay. If we’re critical, we’re still conceding too many goals and it’s difficult to win a football game if you’re conceding three goals. But I think a point’s okay.”

As for kiwis scoring hat-tricks at the highest levels... well, Chris Wood’s got a couple in the English Premier League so he’s the pinnacle. Wynton Rufer got one in the Bundesliga with Werder Bremen (and a few more in cup games).

Beyond those two legends of the kiwi game it might well be that McCowatt’s three-bagger is next on the list.

That includes the women since Amber Hearn never scored three in a Bundesliga Frauen game and it’s not been done in the English WSL by any New Zealander. Times like these remind you how many of our best exports have been defenders. 

Max Mata for (Sligo Rovers in Ireland) and Maggie Jenkins (ALG Spor in Turkey) have scored hatties within the last couple years though not in comparable leagues to where McCowatt is. Oliver Colloty for Peterhead too though that’s arguably even lower down.
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Nelson's finest got a few hat tricks in South Africa. First hat trick Brocks was playing alongside Boxy in the PSL for SuperSport.

https://www.psl.co.za/news/article/3416954-brockie-punishes-cosmos

https://iol.co.za/sport/2017-04-17-brockie-hat-trick-fires-supersport-into-caf-group-phase/

In 2004 Killen got a hat trick in the FA Cup 3rd Round, as Oldham beat Leyton Orient 4-0.
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/oldham-athletic-4-leyton-orient-1131525
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6 months ago
Vicelich got a hatty as well in the Dutch league.
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MetalLegNZ
Vicelich got a hatty as well in the Dutch league.

November 2003.

Might edge McCowatt's hatty into 5th spot behind Wood (x2) & Wynton for prestige. Though Killen's being an FA Cup tie also has strong merit.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/football/soccer-vicelich-scores-a-hat-trick/3REB52FPQTALNNKUNIGYEVTLHQ/#:~:text=3%20Nov%2C%202003%2002:28,Copy%20Link

All Whites midfielder Ivan Vicelich scored a rare hat-trick in helping his Dutch club side Roda JC to a 5-1 home win over Ado Den Haag.
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6 months ago
If he keeps playing like this a bigger club will come calling. 
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6 months ago
True, Hes being playing consistently well this season and a big move could happen. Callum is probably now an icon in Silkeborg. Its not a huge city and football is the main sport.
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6 months ago
What seems to be the next step up in terms of this league?
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6 months ago
Championship stands out as the obvious possibility if he keeps up the goals and assists. One of his Silkeborg team mates went to Burnley last season before they got promoted 
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Napier Phoenix
What seems to be the next step up in terms of this league?
Yeah Championship, Eredivisie or Belgian Pro League.

You can compare the relative strength of teams in those leagues with the OPTA power rankings tool: https://theanalyst.com/articles/strongest-leagues-in-the-world-opta-power-rankings-june-2025

But then the Danish leagues are the most free flowing/fluid leagues in the world, which may suit Callum’s style best.

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In which case maybe a Ligue 1 move would be best. La Liga and Bundesliga perhaps a step too far at the moment, and the other leagues listed there are probably weaker than the Superliga.
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6 months ago
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YoungHeartHM


far out, that must be a heck of a thrill for the lad

I wouldn't know how much the players take note of things like this, but it's a nice little accolade for what was a very good performance against a strong side 

Some good names in that list too.
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6 months ago
Real question now is how we get the boy doing this in a white shirt! 

When given chances the lad seems to finish his dinner off very well. His performance vs Australia didn’t bring me any delight but that can be for various reasons. 

The system just doesn’t seems like it suits him. I wouldn’t mind seeing him playing as a 2nd striker to Woody. Get him more central to goal rather than pinning him out on the wing. 

He’s not a player that’s gonna have the speed and dribbling to get around opposing fullbacks but I think if he’s given the chance to play off Woodsy in a potential diamond formation he could do wonders. 
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He did lay the ball off nicely to Wood for the Woodsman's 2nd big chance in the Canberra game.

You are right he's not a super pacy, or dribbler like a Old or Just. It can be his unseen defensive work with a high press that's mentioned as his best stuff with the AWs.

He tends to have runs of form with Silkeborg. Slow start to the last Superliga season after missing the first few months with injury, but after the winter break he was on fire somewhat. Overall 6 goals & 3 assists in 23 Superliga games. Had another injury just prior that March FIFA window.

This season 5 goals & an assist in 9 games, but that hat trick helps the numbers. 

All something for Baze to mull over. The AWs actually scoring goals remains the biggest work on.

The last time we scored more than 1 goal in a match verus a top 50 side, Japan in 2014! 
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6 months ago
Definitely seems to do his best more centrally and if Wood for whatever reason is not available, should fill that spot

Auckland will rise once more

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McCowatt starts.
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Full game in a 1-1 draw.
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McCowatt starts
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The one AW in goal scoring form. Nets Silkeborg’s goal in a 3-1 loss
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With the form he’s in, I think Baze really ought to look at implementing the 4321 formation that Silkeborg play. It honestly suits our squad perfectly anyway.

Wood
SS/EJ/MG/BO - McCowatt
Stamenic - Bell - Thomas
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A January sale might well be on the cards.

Maybe Bindon can put in a word for him at The Blades. They only have 3 goals in 9 Championship games.

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5 months ago
3-1 win, McCowatt scores yet again.
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5 months ago
FC Copenhagen must hate this guy.

Auckland will rise once more

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You gotta love it.

Likely a good time to platy FCK with players coming in late from the FIFA break, and Copenhagen hosting Dortmund in a few days in the UCL.

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5 months ago
Hmm. That’s a Cacace or Just/Old type run rather than an FDV bomb from deep…

And a Steven Taylor ankle high header to errr…kick off the move there. A goal of a team on song.


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5 months ago
Niche Cache

To put it simply, that’s the best win of Silkeborg’s season to date. They beat the defending champs and they beat them kinda comfortably, blitzing them with three goals in the last twenty of the first half and then controlling things from there. They’ve been so inconsistent this year but maybe this’ll be the one that really gets Silkeborg going.

As for McCowatt, no worries there. This was his sixth goal in his last five appearances and he has seven goals with an assist overall (12 games). Don’t forget the one he scored in Conference League qualifying either. McCowatt remains the equal-second top scorer in the entire Superliga.

He was picked in the Superliga Team of the Month for September and just added another Team of the Round to his resume as well. He’d also played ninety minutes in five of his last six outings just to emphasise how important of a player he has become for this club.


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McCowatt starts. Can he continue his hot form?
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5 months ago
Just an assist this weekend as Silkeborg win 2-1
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Off at 75 mins (2-1). Silkeborg a Danish Cup QF at Midtjylland midweek.
Silkeborg of course having appeared in consecutive finals, but is going to be a tough ask to repeat that.

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No Danish Cup final for Silkeborg this season as they get thumped 4-0

McC comes off the pine at 73 mins (2-0)
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Full game in a 0-2 loss
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