The FIFA World Cup or the World Cup is a prestigious competition that is played by contestants all over the world. The FIFA, or the Federation Internationale de Football Association, is the governing body of football and is something that manages the World Cup, which happens every four years. The 2022 World Cup will be held in Qatar, while the 2018 will be held in France. It involves a lot of things starting with the qualification phase until the players for the tournament phase get selected. Thirty-two teams would proceed with the tournament, which includes the team from the hosting country which is automatically qualified. People are naturally curious about who has the most wins in the FIFA World Cup as a player, and below are details to tell you about it.
Winning players
There are about 445 players that have been on the teams that have won the World Cup, and Pele from Brazil is the one that has the most wins in the World Cup as he has won it three times while the other 20 have won twice. There is no player that has won the World Cup playing as a captain twice, but Meazza, Bellini, Mauro, and Cafu from Italy and Passarella from Argentina have won the World cup once as captains.
Vava and Pele from Brazil are the only players that have scored to win in the two finals in which their team has won the World Cup. On the other hand, Luis Monti is the single player who has won two finals of the World Cup but on different teams.
Pele’s wins
Pele’s first won his first World Cup during the 1958 FIFA, which was held in Sweden, and he played a very important role then. He assisted in the goal for the semi-finals, and he also scored a goal for the victory against Wales. The next tournament he won was the one in Chile around 1962. Here, his contributions were less as he injured himself and had to miss some parts of the tournament. But luckily, they were still able to win the game and were the only nation to do so. His third and the one that made him the one with the most wins in the FIFA World Cup by a player was when he returned to playing for FIA in the 1970 tournament after he was subjected to brutal tackling in 1966, which made him say he would never play again.
Nevertheless, Pele made the right decision to play in the game in Mexico as he won the Golden ball award then while scoring about four goals, and it was truly a sight to behold. Pele deserves his title with the most wins in the FIFA World Cup by a player as he really carried his team on that, and he stayed relevant long enough to win the trophies that he did. He is a good player that has a lot of potentials, and he glowed whenever he was playing.
