Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be fighting elections of-the-pitch next month. But in terms of on-field battles, he is actually pretty good.

Playing in a friendly match for the opening of a new stadium in Istanbul, the 60-year-old bagged a hat-trick for his team. 

A huge football fan, Erdogan used to be a semi-professional footballer from the late 60s until the early 80s. Although he has lost all of his pace, he can still finish with aplomb: