Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 108. (Read 67455 times)

Yep, the 2018 World Cup was actually the best opportunity for Belgium to win their first World Cup.
Unfortunately their progress was stopped by France in the semifinals and had to settle for third place after beating England.
And in the 2022 World Cup they couldnt even get past the group stage because the Golden Generation is starting to age, their stamina is no longer what it used to be and they are prone to injury.
It is time for Belgium to restart the Golden Generation project if they want to go further in the World Cup and Euro cup.

I would say that they weren't really good enough to win at that point neither, look at 2018 you will see how France had a much better squad. Just because it was the best Belgium squad in many years, doesn't mean that it was definitely the best team, it just means that it wasn't all that crazy.

So, we need to remember that we are going to end up with nothing at all just because if it's our best team, because there could be teams that are even better than our best team. Imagine Brazil right now, they are still better than most teams in the world, there could be maybe 5 better teams or not, very rare, but at the same time it's one of the worst Brazilian teams in the end, so just because it's best or worst for that nation, doesn't make it better or worse than others.

How could they not win the match when they hosted a non-seeded country, of course they would have won the match without Messi on the field because the Argentina squad already had the unity from last season's World Cup results, and the mystery of all the games was alive without Messi's presence in the Argentina squad, I  I also hope that in the 2026 World Cup, without Messi, it looks like Argentina will be able to prove that without Messi they are a frightening threat to countries out there and, in addition, their status as defending champions has become a starting point for them in facing strong European countries.

Vietnam vs Indonesia continues the World Cup (AFC) qualifying match.
Indonesia managed to beat Vietnam when they were the home team but only by a narrow score and Indonesia had to win this match to continue to have the opportunity to qualify for the next round of this qualification.
This second match against Vietnam will certainly be different, moreover, Vietnam still has the same chance of getting to the third round so this will be an important match for both teams.
I hope Indonesia wins this match even though they are not favorites in the betting market, but being able to beat Vietnam twice in a row will increase the confidence of the Indonesian squad to win again.

This is true, there really isn't this type of legendary player anymore, the ones that are left are already veterans...

But this phenomenon happens with all teams, you see, years ago the Italy team was made up of Pirlo, Maldini, Vieri , Buffon and many others, England had Owen, Beckham, Scholes, France had Thuram, Zidane, Henry... All the great teams had legendary players, today there is no longer that in any national team

This doesn't just happen with the Brazilian team

Brazil's young talents are very good but I always long for the old legendary squad. Ronaldinho, R9, R.Carlos, Kaka, Robinho, Cafu, Dida... But it's not about missing the old, that squad had a truly unique talent and splendour. If we miss the old, we would praise other old squads as well. Old squat of brazil had 10 times the splendour and quality. Each of them was an iconic player of the club he played for. The current players don't have that. They were by far the favourites in the world cups and dominated the tournaments. No one sees the current brazil as favourites, they don't dominate. They are even behind most European teams.

I don't know why people still thinks that Messi must be in the squad for Argentina to be sure they have got a good team meanwhile contrary to that Argentina bis still doing well with or without Messi in their squad so it's not a thing to really be reckoned with because it will be only trying to limit Argentina of which they are above such limitations at this time because they still perform brilliantly even in his absence.

Argentina is qualifying again for the world cup and they are doing but without messi so there's actually no limitations of Messi been the reason they would qualify or not, although all through the times he was with them in. The national team, be was very useful to them and his impact on the team is such that can't be over looked but then it still doesn't mean that they are no good squad without Messi, even in the forth coming world cup, they may play without him even tho they may not be able to defend the trophy they may be able to at least get to a very good point in the tournament, probably to the semifinals.

Belgium has got to improve on their positioning and their communication on the pitch, they have got talents with the skill but if they get a better rhythm and oder on the pitch, they will get a much more better squad than they have now but then they actually did their best in the friendlies they did played and I'm hoping they will actually get to improve subsequently probably because this was a friendly it wouldn't be considered that much.

This boy plays very well, and the coolest thing is that his physical form is much better than a 17 year old person, when he is at his peak physical form he will certainly be like a machine, he and Vinicius Junior are the two big bets of Brazil to do well in the next FIFA World Cup. Endrick was directly responsible for the good season of Palmeiras (his club)

Belgium is a so talented team but I can't find the natural game the past match. Both team tried to make goal but no. Ireland missed the panalty Shoot. Atlast match draw into 0-0.

Apparently the Belgian national team missed their best chance in 2014 and 2018. Not only De Bruyne and Lukaku were in their best form there, but also Azar, Carasco, Courtois, Kompany, Vertonghen.
This team was probably the best Belgium national team for many years, but I think the Belgium national team made a mistake with the choice of head coach, in the beginning Wilmots did well, but he got in the way of Argentina and then in 2016 at the Euros was a failure at all, but Martinez could not fully reveal the potential of that star team of Belgium.
Tedesco is doing well so far, but as rightly noted the players he has at his disposal are much weaker than those who played in 2014-2020 for Belgium.

friendly games are completely different from real games, in friendly games players don't take themselves seriously, they save themselves a lot to avoid injuries, that's why someone uses friendly games as a reference that a certain team has improved a lot or can play well without a certain player, and a big mistake. look at the friendly games that many teams played before the last world cup and see that many teams like Brazil had good results in the friendlies before the last world cup and people were even talking a lot about Brazil being champions like they are doing now In this thread they only talk about Brazil, and France didn't have good results in friendly games, but when it came to the serious games, the cup games it was visible as Brazil was nothing, it was a weak team

while Argentina had good results in the friendly games before the World Cup without Di Maria and Messi, during the serious games, the World Cup games it was clear that without Messi and Di Maria Argentina were not strong in attack, even in the game. in the final against France, Argentina was strong while it had Messi and Di Maria, but when Argentina's coach removed Di Maria, Argentina fell a lot and France dominated the game to the point of drawing and then France came very close to winning the The game is all the fault of the Argentine coach who wanted the team to start adapting with younger players in that position.

By this I mean that teams cannot be in a rush to place young players while they have good players who are a certain age but who play much better and perform very well. In the case of Messi, he is a player with a much bigger and better vision of the field, he is not just an attacking player, he can make assists for players better positioned on the field, he can position himself better on the field, in other words Even though Messi is at that age, he is still Argentina's best option in serious games, and Messi is not very old, Messi is 36 years old, he can still play in the next World Cup and perform well

Argentina has a good team even without Messi; but a fit Messi is always a big asset for the team and Argentina has more chance in winning with Messi in the team.
Anyone saw the friendly match of Belgium vs Ireland? Belgium has a talented team but what a bad match was this ?! I hope they can improve for their next matches.

People were still talking about using Mssi in the next World Cup in 2026 and they think Argantina will fail without Messi but that's wrong and it seems from what I can see that Argantina can even have a good performance if they don't have Mess in the team. However, this can be challenging for them but they have been using this player for years.
But in the game between El Salvador and Argentina, we saw a good performance in Argentina and they played without Messi but still, they won the game with a 3-0 result.
Messi was absent because he was injured when he was playing for Inter Miami. The next game for Argantina will be agagsit Costa Rica.

Last time in this thread, I was telling us that when it comes to possessing the best football talents in the world, I don't think there's any nation that have more footballing talents like the South American country and that's why they're the most successful football nation on the planet. Kendrick before yesterday was only known by very few people but after his performance yesterday against the England national team at Wembley, many are now aware that Brazil have such young talented player as their player. He's still a 17 years old but will soon turn to 18 year and from the contract he signed with Real Madrid, he'll join the club after he's turned 18 years of age.
The authorities in charge of the Brazilian national team should as a matter of urgency try to get a good manager that'll blend these young stars and see how far they'll go as a team

In fact, Brazil is a country where you can always find talent and young players in this country but these players need someone to coach them and guide them to have better performance in the team. Endrick is one of these players.
In the game between England and Brazil, Endrick the young, 17-year-old player of Brazil scored the goal for his team ten minutes after he got the chance to play in this math.
This happened in Wembley stadium and now Endrick is the youngest player who scored a goal in Wembley. It was his first goal for Brazil in his life.
I think Real Madrid should be very happy because Vinicius Junior made the assist for this goal.

The work that Rodrigo Caetano does is a kind of behind-the-scenes management, he is a selection coordinator, for example: his role is all about behind-the-scenes planning, such as scheduling games, training, coordinating meetings, presenting players after they are called up to play... Basically, he coordinates strategies off the field. He performs this role very well and in recent years his career has only evolved.

I'm not considering Belgium among top favourites now unfortunately.    They had this golden generation once when the players were having their brightest era. While they can't even win a championship in this situation I wouldn't expect them to do so in Euro 2024 or World Cup 2026. They just need to show me some good football against big teams in these tournaments to give them a chance.

De Bruyne has started to get injured often recently. Lukaku has actually shown really good effort for Belgium these days with many goals.

But if there is no solid teamwork there is no success anyway...

Brazil have many youth talented players and depend with their manager Dorival Júnior brave or not giving them regular position and playing on the first minutes, last match Real Madrid's striker Endrick success give the winning goal against England and make him self on the name list of youth players scoring the goals for senior teams. International friendly match help Brazil return back to the top FIFA ranking after out from ten top position, in other side Dorival Júnior can give more minutes for youth players to get regular position and will be ready for official tournament such as Copa America and FIFA World Cup matches.
Brazil national team have one match left on international break out, after winning against England last match and three days later will face Spain on friendly match, will Dorival Júnior give regular position for Endrick and some youth players in this match?

Brazilian talent is without any doubt one of the best in world, but recently they are having serious trouble into their team due to lack of leadership with they are not alone we are also having problems in few other teams as well but still things are manageable for them because they are having good system which is producing the best players which are providing services in all around the world which is amazing stuff, but their team's performance need good depth and coordination which is important for having good results in top events.
Now we have new coach which is surely going to have some positive impact, and they won their first game as well against England but still its long way to go for them with having good results in Copa América and FIFA World Cup which are more important if they are able to fix things like this hopefully we will have good change and again them at the top.

Brazil has a lot of good players we can say without a doubt and every national team and club level is filled with Brazilian stars. However, the Brazil team is currently in a very bad position in the FIFA rankings, and their position and style of play can only be attributed to their coach. If there is an experienced coach in Brazil, then they will definitely be in a good position in the FIFA ranking and they will have a chance to win the World Cup. All the Brazilian stars are very popular all over the world and they are currently reigning in the big clubs and Brazil is a strong team and they are the highest World Cup winners. But tomorrow's game against England is really good for Brazil because it's really good for Brazil to beat England in England. The Brazilian star's playing system is fine, but if an experienced coach pays more attention to football, the national team will definitely be stronger and have more chances to win the World Cup.