4 World Cup records that Messi and Ronaldo will never break

Number of World Cup titles

To date, Pele remains the only player to have won the World Cup three times (1958, 1962 and 1970). In addition, players such as Cafu, Ronaldo “the fat” (Brazil) and Giuseppe Meazza have won the World Cup twice.

Messi (30 years old) and Ronaldo (33 years old) have never won the World Cup and it can be said that neither of them will be able to break the record of "King of Football" Pele.

To break Pele's record, Messi and Ronaldo will have to play for more than 12 years, but this is unlikely because both are getting old.

In fact, Messi almost got his hands on the World Cup title, when the Argentina team reached the 2014 World Cup Final, but they fell to the German team.

Ronaldo has never gone this far in this tournament. He and Portugal reached the semi-finals of the 2006 World Cup.

Number of goals scored in a World Cup

Just Fontaine made history as the player who scored the most goals in a single World Cup (1958). The Frenchman scored 13 goals in 6 matches in that tournament. Four years earlier, Sandor Kocsis (Hungary) scored 11 goals in 5 matches in the 1954 World Cup.

60 years after Fontaine set his record, no player has come close to his achievement. Even “The Bomber King” Gerd Muller only scored 10 goals at the 1970 World Cup.

Messi and Ronaldo are unlikely to surpass their predecessors' achievements. Messi has only scored a total of 5 goals in the World Cups he has participated in, while Ronaldo has scored 3 goals.

Most appearances in World Cup Finals

Messi and Ronaldo are unlikely to break this record. Cafu, one of the greatest right-backs of all time, played in four World Cups and three World Cup Finals. Pele, despite winning three World Cups, was on the bench in the 1962 World Cup Final.

Until now, Messi has only appeared in the World Cup Final once and Ronaldo has never.

Oldest player to score at the World Cup

Roger Milla (Cameroon) holds the record as the oldest player to score in a World Cup (42 years old) when he scored in Cameroon's 1-6 loss to Russia at the 1994 World Cup.

Messi is 30 years old and Ronaldo is 33 years old. And breaking Roger Milla's record is impossible for these two players when most likely, the 2018 World Cup will be the last World Cup for Messi and Ronaldo.