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I was watching a piece of news, but I don't know if it's real or maybe not, but it announced that perhaps for the next World Cup qualifiers, South America would expand the World Cup quotas to 6 places, if this is the case it will be very interesting , the curious thing is that it only said South America, for Europe it would also apply.
The next world cup, 2026, will be hosted in Canada, USA, and Mexico. All those 3 will be qualified because they're hosts. Also, there will be extra slots for all the confederations.
The 2026 World Cup will have 48 qualified teams instead of the 32 teams of 2022. So that's going to be an extra 16 teams for the next world cup, selected from all the confederations.
It will be the first time that some confederations will be able to qualify directly instead of having to go to play-offs.
Here's the detailed table with the new spots:
Excellent information, the fact of doing it in 3 countries is an experiment that FIFA wants to do to see how things can go, however the most benefited are those from Asia and I like that, also the addition of more countries by UEFA could guarantee that teams like Italy, Sweden if they can have more options to go to the World Cup, particularly I still feel sadness because these two teams do not go to QATAR, because they have a very good history and are actually very representative and they make many countries have many fans and want to revive actions that only they could do, as happened in USA94 with the third place of Sweden and the last World Cup that Italy won with a Zidane who hit an Italian.
I just realized that for the first time there were six teams from Asia (AFC) who managed to advance to the world cup. I think this is new history. I have high hopes for South Korea and Japan in this world cup. although the real challenge will definitely be felt for Korea and Japan because considering Qatar is a pretty hot country so I hope it won't be a problem. even some of my brothers who work in qatar say it's so hot there even at work there is someone who installs air conditioning outside the room. This will definitely be a challenge for a team from a country that has cold temperatures.
The hosts always gain automatic qualification, and on top of that there are 4 exclusive slots for AFC. Apart from these, Australia managed to win the playoff against Peru. So in total there are 6 countries from the AFC. All that said, South Korea and Japan are a joke. They have huge fanbase, but they never perform in major tournaments. They look completely clueless when they play against top teams such as Brazil or England.
And now coming to the weather, I don't think that there needs to be much concern. During evening time, the weather is much more tolerable. On top of that, the tournament is taking place during the winter season.
It's true, I think that the match between Australia and Peru was not that exciting, but this time for me, I was more for Australia than for Peru even though I am South American, I think that the kangaroos of the beautiful country need to do a good job in QATAR . The criticism for the oceanic country has been many, but there is still a long way to go before they can fix all those inconsistencies that could have been shown, I think they will give a good show and will be able to go very far in the World Cup.