WORLD CUP RECORDS (Part 15) - CAPTAIN AT MOST EDITIONS
Picture : Rafael Marquez dominates !
Captain at most editions: Rafael Márquez
Rafael Márquez is the only player over the World Cups history who took the captain duty in his team (Mexico) at 5 editions (from 2002 to 2018).
By now, he is dominant in this ranking: there is no other player even with 4 such editions.
However, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo which are in the group of 11 players with 3 editions, will almost certainly add 4th to his tally in Qatar.
| CAPTAINS AT MOST | WORLD CUP EDITIONS | ||
| Player | Country | Editions | |
| Rafael Márquez | Mexico | 5 | 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 |
| Billy Wright | England | 3 | 1950, 1954, 1958 |
| Ladislav Novák | Czechoslovakia | 3 | 1954, 1958, 1962 |
| Björn Nordqvist | Sweden | 3 | 1970, 1974, 1978 |
| Diego Maradona | Argentina | 3 | 1986, 1990, 1994 |
| Carlos Valderrama | Colombia | 3 | 1990, 1994, 1998 |
| Paolo Maldini | Italy | 3 | 1994, 1998, 2002 |
| Didier Drogba | Ivory Coast | 3 | 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| Iker Casillas | Spain | 3 | 2006, 2010, 2014 |
| Makoto Hasebe | Japan | 3 | 2010, 2014, 2018 |
| Lionel Messi | Argentina | 3 | 2010, 2014, 2018 |
| Cristiano Ronaldo | Portugal | 3 | 2010, 2014, 2018 |