At whatever point the open deliberation about the best footballer ever starts, Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi are perpetually the initial two names presented. The team has destroyed records left, right and focus since ascending to the highest point of European football for their separate clubs, notwithstanding winning the Ballon d’Or five times each.
Be that as it may, while they have commanded club football like no other combine in history has, they have attempted to touch off the world stage in a comparative vein. Messi and Ronaldo have both neglected to lift the World Cup trophy even once and the 2018 World Cup in Russia may be their last opportunity to get their hands on the pined for prize.
Most titles – 3 (Pele)
Brazilian legend and apparently the best footballer ever, Pele, won the World Cup in 1958, 1962 and 1970. He remains the main player to have lifted the lofty trophy on three events. Upwards of 20 different players have won the opposition on two separate events, including Ronaldo, Cafu and Giuseppe Meazza. Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, then again, have neglected to lift the trophy even once, with the Argentine falling at the last obstacle in Brazil in 2014, losing to Germany in the last.
Most objectives scored in a solitary version – 13 (Just Fontaine)
This is likely one record that will never be broken by anybody, not to mention just Messi or Ronaldo. Just Fontaine composed his name into the record books with dazzling exhibitions in the 1958 World Cup. Fontaine scored 13 objectives in only 6 diversions in the opposition, more than twofold any other person’s count. 60 years down the line and nobody has verged on breaking it, with Gerd Muller overseeing 10 objectives in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.
Most established goalscorer – 42 years, 1 month and 8 days (Roger Milla)
Roger Milla, one of the best players in World Cup history, broke his own particular record of being the most established goalscorer in the opposition when he hit the back of the net against Russia in the 1994 World Cup, matured 42. Cameroon however would wind up losing the diversion 6-1.
As of now, Messi is matured 30 and Ronaldo is 33, which means they would need to play no less than 3 more World Cups to have the capacity to break Milla’s record. Messi effectively declared his worldwide retirement once before turning around his choice and choosing to keep playing for Argentina. He has additionally implied that he may leave toward the finish of the 2018 World Cup. Ronaldo excessively appears, making it impossible to back off and there is basically no chance he will keep playing 12 years down the line, which means Milla’s record, while it may in reality be separated some place the line, it won’t be by one of these 2.
Most World Cup last appearances – 3 (Cafu)
Cafu, considered by numerous to be one of the best right-backs ever, spoke to Brazil in 4 World Cups (1994, 1998, 2002, 2006) and played in 3 finals (1994, 1998, 2002). He is the main player in World Cup history to have played in 3 distinctive World Cup finals.
Most objectives scored – 16 (Miroslav Klose)
German striker Miroslav Klose spoke to his country in four diverse World Cups (2002, 2006, 2010, 2014), scoring up 16 objectives simultaneously and winning the Golden Boot in 2006. In three versions each up until this point, Messi and Ronaldo have overseen only 5 and 3 objectives separately. With Messi filling in as to a greater degree a playmaker for Argentina, his goalscoring yield has endured a shot and subsequently he is probably not going to try and get close to Klose’s figure.