Cristiano Ronaldo will be 37 by the time the next World Cup comes along

After Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo exited the World Cup on the same day, we look at the top 10 players never to win the biggest international prize.

Messi's Argentina were beaten 4-3 by France in the last 16 in Kazan, and having prematurely retired from international football in 2016, this is likely to be the 31-year-old's last World Cup appearance.

The closest he came to lifting the World Cup came in 2014, an extra-time defeat by Germany in Brazil, but Messi is in good company.

Lionel Messi's Argentina crashed out of the World Cup on Saturday against France

Meanwhile, Ronaldo's Portugal were beaten 2-1 by Uruguay in a pulsating clash in Sochi, and he'll be 37 by the time Qatar 2022 comes along.

RT @OptaJavier 0 - Lionel Messi #ARG and Cristiano Ronaldo #POR have never scored in the knockout stages of the World Cup; between both of them, they accumulated 1.270 minutes without scoring (756 Messi, 514 Ronaldo). Era. pic.twitter.com/LbGzt3PEjy — OptaJose (@OptaJose) June 30, 2018

Some of the world's all-time greatest players failed to win the World Cup, and here, we list the best of them.

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