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#2 Cristiano Ronaldo
Country: Portugal
World Cups played: 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018
Best finish: Fourth place, 2006
One of the greatest players of the current generation and possibly ever, Cristiano Ronaldo is a serial winner. Having won the UEFA Champions League 5 times, and even the UEFA Euro in 2016, it would be a safe assumption to say that Ronaldo knows how to win and has always had a quality group of players surround him, be it at club level or internationally. Despite this, he has never found success at the World Cup.
His best finish came at the 2006 World Cup, when he still was finding his footing as the player he is today. He scored just one goal in Portugal's semi-final run. 2010 saw disappointment too, as they were eliminated in the Round of 16 at the hands of eventual champions, Spain.
Standing far and ahead of everyone as Portugal's leader in 2014, they scraped past Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Sweden to make it into the World Cup, where they were shockingly eliminated in the group stage by champions Germany and the USA.
Despite putting on a masterclass in the 2018 World Cup, Ronaldo's Portugal fell short again, as an Edinson Cavani brace sent them packing in the RO16. Ronaldo has scored in every World Cup he has played and has been one of the best for as long as he played. he is easily one of the greatest, if not the greatest man to never lift the World Cup.
