Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 10. (Read 62497 times)

I have an assumption. Even if Messi retires I think he will still be involved with the Argentina national team either as a coaching staff or as a mentor for young Argentine players. But I think if he doesn't get injured it looks like the 2026 World Cup will be his last World Cup. In fact it will be the last World Cup for both of our GOATs. Argentina is still the best football team in the world based on the FIFA rankings and they still have a great chance to at least reach the semifinals. It would be very memorable if Messi could get his second World Cup even though it is almost impossible.

Messi seems to still be part of the tango team at the 2026 world cup, in my opinion Messi's opportunity to play in the world cup is still wide open as Ronaldo is now, so far Messi and Ronaldo are still show their greatness as footballers so it will be difficult for the coach to get rid of them from squad, especially since they have had a very vital role in the national team squad, In my opinion, Messi and Ronaldo still have a lot to offer for their national team, their experience and leadership on the field are very valuable, especially in big tournaments like the world cup later, so indeed their presence can also provide additional motivation for young players to learn and develop later, it is inevitable if now argentina and prortugal have players who can replace the role of Messi and Ronaldo, but it doesn't hurt for the coach to keep Ronaldo and Messi in their squad because maybe a balanced approach can be the best solution, where Messi and ronaldo still play a role, but also coach must to give space for young players to perform and develop, the 2026 world cup I think will be the last world cup for the two best players in that the world.

Neymar has just return to play with Al Hilal recently after got long term injury and he can bringing Al Hilal to win from Al Ain at Asia champion league but on that match Neymar only playing for 13 minutes and regarding his chance to joining again with Brazil National team recently i found a news that Neymar will be absense when Brazil facing Venezuela and Uruguay

The main reason why Dorival Junior didn't calling him for those matches because Dorival Junior don't want to pushing Neymar to playing more because he doesn't want Neymar got the injury again besides that Dorival Junior want to ensure that if Neymar playing again with Brazil then he has a good fitness and probably Neymar will defend Brazil on March 2025

Messi is taking part in the CONMEBOL qualifiers, and he also took part in COPA America. So I guess he has plans to represent Argentina at the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But the question is whether that is required or not. Argentina can easily replace Messi with some of the younger players. The case with Cristiano Ronaldo is a lot different. Portugal still doesn't have someone who can replace him in the squad. For sure they have promising youngsters such as Rafael Leão and João Félix. But the problem is that they are not at a level where they can replace Ronaldo.

Even though Messi is old, he is still the most important player of the whole Argentina team, even every player of Argentina team respects him. In fact, Messi is the most experienced player in the Argentina team. At the 2014 World Cup, Argentina were unexpectedly defeated by Germany in the final match and missing out on the title. However, Argentina continued their good performance which resulted in them qualifying for the semi-finals of the 2018 World Cup as well.

Then in the 2022 FIFA World Cup held in Qatar, Argentina won their coveted FIFA World Cup, basically Lionel Messi's performance in that World Cup was unparalleled. Now a question on the minds of all football fans is whether Messi will play in 2026 FIFA World Cup. I think If he does not retire from football, he may be seen with the Argentina team in the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Regarding Graham Arnold, he actually has lot of experience with Australia but indeed for the current edition they performed less than satisfactory but Graham Arnold departure is also quite unfortunate because he is not bad coach, now Australia and Saudi Arabia will continue the third round with each of their new coaches, I quite curious about how they will finish in this third round.
Of all this, only Saudi Arabia is quite worrying, Herve Renard knows very well what he has to do for Saudi Arabia and I sure that Herve Renard return can help Saudi Arabia to still have chance to participate in the 2026 World Cup and for Japan itself they are the strongest and it will be difficult for anyone in Asia to beat them.

We understand how difficult it is to win the World Cup when we watch Brazil in every World Cup tournament. 

In every tournament of the world cup Brazil team wants to ignite the world cup tournament with the best team from all the other teams and in every tournament they have a dream to fulfill the mission hexa but till now they could not win the world cup for the sixth time. Germany won the 2014 World Cup, France won the 2018 World Cup and Argentina won the 2022 World Cup. Although Argentina is a good team in the 2026 World Cup tournament, there is no guarantee that they can win the World Cup title, so Messi must think about these things and decide whether he will stay in the next World Cup team or announce his retirement before the World Cup.

I'm not sure but I feel Mancini was better for Sadi Arabian and now they will feel regret for getting Mancini fired because the performance of Mancini was good enough and they were about to get themself into the 2026 World Cup which is a great achievement for them.
Also, Mancini had a good reputation in this country and now Renard is going to return. Maybe because Renard they got their coach fired because Renard was working there before until he left Saudi Arabia because getting another offer.

It's a fact that things with Brazil are different now, the player that has caused me the most curiosity is the improvement of Rapinha, he has scored goals with the national team and also with Barcelona, ??wow this player has been key, I think that Brazil has recovered its level, the bad thing is that it is recovering it and it has to play against Venezuela and with the players being at full speed against Venezuela it is probable that they will beat them easily, and that is what I do not want lol, however we have to wait, there I saw that Ney joined Al Hilal, and of all the Brazilians the one I have the most respect for and I would not want him to face is Ney, because Ney represents the joga bonito in Brazil, it is a problem that he shines a lot.

Neymar will take a few months to perhaps return to being what he was, I still think he should expose himself less in the plays and try to retreat his positioning on the field and try to be a kind of classic number 10, the one who sets up the plays for the attackers to finish or else try to be a finishing center forward... if he continues playing as he is used to, he will get injured again... a serious injury like his if it happens again at his age will be the end of career.

The Brazil team will play the World Cup qualifiers again in November.  Prior to that, Gabriel, who was strong against the attack defense in the Brazil team, was injured in the last match.
 Earlier, another center break, Bremer, was ruled out for the season due to injury.
 Brazil's right ringer Rodrigo has been injured in the Champions League stage, Alison Brecker, the regular goalkeeper of the team, has been injured in the Brazil team.
 Vinicius was out of the field due to injury in the last World Cup qualifying match.  This is one of the best stars of the Brazil team after getting injured after playing a match for Real Madrid.
 However, Vinicius jr recovered before this World Cup qualifying round.
 Vinicius jr recovered but another Brazilian ringer Rodrigo was injured during the Champions League.  It is not yet known exactly how long he will be out of the field.
 Gabriel suffered the injury while playing for Arsenal against Liverpool.  Meanwhile, Brazil's main goalkeeper Alison Brecker, who is injured, has been injured for a long time. This Liverpool star last played for Liverpool on October 5 and left the field after playing 79 minutes. Due to a hamstring injury, there is no guarantee when Alison will return to the field.
 Meanwhile, Bremer of Juventus ended this season due to injury
 Brazilians are worried.
 All in all, the Brazilian team is plagued with injuries.  The return of Neymar Jr. among them is good news for the Brazilians, but Neymar Jr. is back in the team after a year.  Old matches that have not been played yet, there are a number of injuries again.
 I am hopeful that the Brazil team will recover from injuries and come back in formidable form in this year's tournament.  Will win the hearts of fans with their game.

After certain age, there isn't any lower division that would matter because they would not be able to play. Remember, most of their life these players played with other great players as well, sure they were always the best player but they didn't had terrible players around them, they had some great players around them most of their life. Sure right now maybe they do not have the greatest players, but they still have "some" decent players with them as well, so they are benefiting that too.

But if they go to for example like 4th division of Spanish league, just to score goals, the hard tackle defense of other teams would hurt them a lot and would injure them, age would stop them, and their terrible teammates would not be able to pass them well enough. So after a certain age, there is no way they can keep scoring, not like they can be 50 and go to lower league and score. Unless they just need like couple goals, then they can do that for a few games, score a few goals and be done.

Mancini is not a bad coach. but there is dissatisfaction with the results that Saudi Arabia currently gets in the qualifiers. of course, they want a ticket to the World Cup finals with the hope that Hervé Renard can provide positive results from several remaining Saudi matches in this 3rd round.
Japan I think will secure the first ticket to qualify, while Australia and Saudi Arabia currently have the same points. the next meeting between Saudi Arabia and Australia will be a tough step for Hervé Renard.

59 years old Roberto Mancini not bad coach, but he fails to adopt conditions here in Saudi Arab which bring Saudi Arab down which was not acceptable for the Saudi soccer authorities so with mutual understanding we have this contract ended, and now they are back in business with Hervé Renard who is having good experience with this team and his performance was also much better than Roberto Mancini.



Currently, Saudi Arab in third stage of FIFA World Cup qualifiers they are having not good results from their 4 games their next game is against Australia which is also not easy, so things were going not favourable for their qualification which allow bringing changes at this level now we will have Hervé Renard for another qualification into world cup because Saudi Arab not want to lose their spot with their vision and things are surely allowing them to stay in good.

Winning the world cup is very very difficult. After failing in the 2014 world cup final Messi needed 8 years to play in the final again and luckily he was able to win it. That is a very long time. I agree with you that there is no guarantee that Messi will win the world cup again. Even the record for most world cup winners is currently held by Pele with 3 world cup titles and no player has been able to break it. But I think Messi will still be an important player for Argentina in the 2026 world cup. He may be old but I am sure he will be called up for the 2026 world cup. Unless Messi chooses to retire.

To make it even bigger, Ronaldo is pursuing a 1k career goal before retirement. The only time their stay will become a burned to the team would be when their productivity drops of which with Ronaldo it doesn't seem so jus yet, literally I say on a news long ago that he even wishes to play along side with his son of which he has been working towards, keeping fit and never relenting in his career, if he's at 900 already, typically he need about 60 games where he will consistently score two goals or more and could be excused with some of which a typical analysis on his anticipated time of his career both for the club side and rhe country side could give him that time but it will entail so much hard work which i can't tell if hes ready for already.

After Cristiano Ronaldo came to the Saudi League, it became easier for him to touch the milestone of 1000 goals. Currently his goal tally is over 900 but if he had stayed in Europe by now he would not have reached 900 as the competition there is definitely tougher than the Saudi league. 
Cristiano Ronaldo has set the target of completing 1000 goals and then ending his football career. The Portugal superstar is still far from the goal of 1000 goals, so he will have to play football for a long time to reach this milestone. As his fitness is still fit and he is doing well for the team, Saudi club Al-Nassr might give him that chance.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi have given us unforgettable memories as far as the FIFA World Cup tournament is concerned. These two superstars with their incredible football qualities have lit up the tournament in five different editions with Lionel Messi finally winning the competition in the last edition that was held on Qater. A lot of people are speculating that Cristiano Ronaldo is most likely to feature in the next edition that'll be coming up in less than two years from now. For Lionel Messi, I don't know if he'll be fit enough to play in the next edition. Now, I want to read your opinions about this topic. Do you think Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo will be featuring in the next edition of the FIFA World Cup?

There is no heart emoji here, but reading Messi's stats astonishes me every time I come across them. But there is so much more to his game. The beautiful assists, which is not only playing an easy pass or so, but pure genius whenever he has the ball. Or all the brilliant free kick goals while he is never using force like Ronaldo. Messi does it the classy way with ultimate precision. He is a player who will remain unmet for a very long time.

Qualification stages is really has a victim because before Roberto Mancini reported Australia manager Graham Arnold also has been withdraw from his position and Graham Arnold feel he was failed to bringing Australia to performing well so that's why he was withdraw from his position as a manager and for Roberto Mancini the loses from Japan and draw result from Bahrain is really unacceptable for Saudi Arabia president so that's why they have been decide to sacked Roberto Mancini and new manager of Saudi Arabia Herve Renard is not new for this team because on 2022 Herve Renard can bringing Saudi Arabia to playing at world cup and under him too at that time Saudi Arabia can able to beat Argentina at group stage