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“I noticed that Vincent, Sébastien and Olivier Thill have all scored for Luxembourg and wondered what the record is for the number of siblings who have scored for their country?” ponders Simon Hurst. “Their father, Serge Thill, also played for the national team but didn’t score.”

Russell Connor has another hat-trick of siblings to add to the list. “Alvin, Lorenzo and Jonathan Tehau are all brothers and have scored for Tahiti,” says Russell. “They also have a cousin – Teaonui Tehau – who has played and scored for Tahiti. Pleasingly there was also an instance of them all scoring in the same match: a 10-1 victory over Samoa in 2012 when Lorenzo scored four and the others got one each.”

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