Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 109. (Read 67455 times)

Yes, it is true that the first match, which was home match, allowed Indonesia to maintain one-goal lead until the match was over. With this victory, Indonesia has indeed saved 3 points and is temporarily in second place in Group F standings.
But in the next match Indonesia will play away against Vietnam and I doubt that Indonesia will be able to play well again or even win, the away match against Vietnam is not easy for Indonesia.
We know that Vietnam is one of the strongest teams in the Asian zone and the away match could result in Indonesia losing or only ending in draw, at least if they fail to win then Indonesia will have to hold draw to remain in comfortable position.

After that Indonesia will play against Iraq and also the Philippines, the most difficult is against Iraq which in this match I would never say there is chance for Indonesia to win.
But in the last match against the Philippines, it was clear on paper that Indonesia had the advantage and Indonesia had big opportunity to get full points.

Rodrigo Caetano is having spot of the director of the national teams with he will be work closely national main team and youth as well even there is nothing specific thing about this spot but mostly are saying he will be having spot near to both teams coaches for the improvement of quality and development of the players as well.
Today we have first game under the supervision of the new coach Dorival Junior and Brazil beats first time England at the Wembley which is impressive start for the coach and team even things were not as they needed, but we have the best thing now youngsters are doing good job and feeling confident which is big change for them and surely things will be more improved in coming days for them.

Belgium is not the strong team that we used to know. They have lost so many quality players due to age and the team is finding it difficult to replace them. Players like Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen and Kevin De Bruyne, Witsel and Axel Witsel and Eden Hazard are priceless and younger players like Amadou Onana, Youri Tielemans, Leandro Trossard, Charles De Ketelaere, Doku and Openda have not been able to cover the vacuum of these experienced players. Roberto Martínez led Belgium to great heights but the ageing player and internal conflicts in the team led to its depreciation. I also expect coach Domenico Tedesco to replicate the success of Martinez because he still has access to some quality players but his problem will be how to unite the team to enable them to work in a unity of purpose. I suggest that he should use only players who are in form and not select based on name or past glory.  With his experience from coaching RB Leipzig, Spartak Moscow and Schalke the young coach can make a mark with the Belgian national team in the forthcoming World Cup.    

Yes, Dorival Júnior doesn't have a career out of Brazil at all and this has been the same for Brazil's coach choices for a long time. To tell the truth I don't find this policy very healthy for them in the long run. Because these coaches have no idea about how European national teams play. This is a big obstacle ahead of him to prepare Brazil for the World Cup in the best manner. 

By the way I see Rodrigo Caetano who has become "team manager". What do they mean by this title? Is it like an assistant manager or something else? His career is also full of only Brazilian teams.

Gulf is the rich region, but sadly we have no human rights and many other things which bring better things for the common peoples, so things like these were expected with we have huge investments and too much blood in Qatar while they were preparing for the world cup but no one talk about this because we have deep pockets were involved in this all but now as we are heading for the USA which is one of the developed countries in all aspects surely things will be much better and improved which are positive side of this all with they are going to have many new developments as well which will work for the rest of the world as well because we all know USA is doing good development in all fields which are following for the world.

2026 soccer world cup is going to be game changer because first time we will have 48 countries in this mega event and 3 countries will be host which is another huge development and good for the game because in future we will have too many countries will be tried this way and able to share this all.

There is still Euro to be played before this, and of course each continent has their own, and I think that should show the world which teams are doing fine and which are not. I am not saying this will do good or that will do bad, I am just saying it would be too early to call for anything before that cup.

If you see that cup doing fine, then that team most probably will do fine at world cup too. Since there are only few limited spots and only a few will go out of the group stages, and it is such a rare occasion (once every four years) sometimes unexpected stuff happens. Remember the group stages of the last world cup? So many upsets and so many david vs goliath situations all in the group stages, definitely was weird.

Brazil without doubt haven't been as consistent as they're supposed to be considering the quality players the national team and that's why they're below Belgium in FIFA rankings. The reason behind Brazil's poor results is simply because of the inexperience of the coach of the team and not because they don't have the needed quality of players to be ranked as the best team in world football.
Tomorrow evening, they play against the Three Lions of England at the famous Wembley stadium and because the English team will be playing at home, many are of the opinion that Brazil will be beaten tomorrow. I don't have full confidence when it comes to the Brazilian team of how bad their manager have been and I think the best thing the country's football authorities try and get another manager that can handle the Brazil national team perfectly.

In the past World Cup, we saw in Qatar, this country made many sports facilities before the World Cup and they used many workers from the other countries to build the stadiums you saw on TV while many people died for it and there was too much blood in the last world cup however the world cup you saw from TV was very nice and shining for people who watch this tournament. But I think this time they chose America as the main host because they know in America there are much better sports facilities and hosts to host the World Cup in a better way than Qatar, this way America won't need to spend too much money for building the stadiums like Qatar done and they just need repair what they already have in their country.

Well, I have seen that Brazil has not been playing very well in the last few games, they have been losing against teams that I did not believe could win, in fact, they have the best players they have in Europe, they have young promises, and it is presumed that there are one who is told that he is Pelé's successor, but the truth is I don't see him with those eyes, I don't see him doing things as such to deserve that, however now the Brazilian team is in crisis, I think it's also because he has many of his players who have not had much action, among them Neymar, because in the last game that was with Colombia they lost, sometimes this is something that does not look very good.

In fact, it is presumed, it is not certain that Pep Guardiola can lead this team on the way to the World Cup, he is between San Marino and a couple of other teams that are interested in Pee's services, honestly this would change the face of the Brazilian team.

I have good prospects for Dorival Jr as CBF coach for the next world cup, but if it depends on the current players, unfortunately no coach in the world will be able to perform miracles, as a team does not just depend on a coach, a team is a whole cog, and currently the lineups that are being made by the CBF are disappointing us brazilians, great players are left out while old ones are always called up, I won't cite examples of names because there are a lot of players and I don't remember. But I will cite an example:

brazil wasted many chances when they still had a chance of winning a World Cup, a great example of this was in the 2010 World Cup, when they didn't call up players like Ronaldinho Gaucho, Adriano, Ganso (who was playing at a high level at the time) and perhaps even Ronaldo (Fenomeno).

Dorival Jr had a great season at Santos F.C, winning several titles at the time when Neymar Jr was still playing there, so he has a very attractive CV worthy of a national team coach.

Today, at the moment I say that unfortunately we don't have the slightest chance of winning a hexa if we continue at this pace in the lineup, even more so with Neymar temporarily sidelined, although he is often targeted for fouls and frequently getting injured in world cup matches.

And to top it off, in the last ~15 years we haven't had a good harvest, with few stars left like Neymar Jr, Vinicius Jr and Endrick (promising star, but hasn't reached the level of ace yet in my opinion).

A coach like Abel Ferreira, one of the best coaches in the world, would be ideal for the team, but I don't think even he would be able to significantly increase the team's level of performance with the current availability of players.

Actually, the victory against Vietnam on last match its not really impressive with Indonesian team performance, the long throw in helped Indonesian scored one goal trough Egy Maulana Vikri and Indonesian success secure three points. Have difficult for upcoming match away against Vietnam and three points is most important to secure 2nd standings position behind two matches left against Filipina and Iraq seems guarantee will qualify to next round.
Shin Tae-yong have hard work for next match against Vietnam, left fewest points on current position and Vietnam still not close yet their opportunity for finishing on 2nd place if can beat Indonesian team next match. Wish Indonesian can play without pressure and most emotional on next match exactly huge pressure from Vietnam fans will make it difficult for player controlling their emotion.

I really hate this phase of qualy for world cup and more now when we have more spots than ever, and i say this because for example in Asian federation you can still see a lot of games who has 0 value between huge teams and very weak national teams. I look into the last phase when something is decisive.

The Belgian XI is always strong and most of the Belgian players have performed well in the English Premier League or in the prestigious European clubs but this team's team performance and team performance in major tournaments is very poor. The team has not been performing very well in either the Euro or World Cup tournaments for the past few seasons. We expect a very good performance from this team for the size of Belgium. From the goalkeeper to the attacking positions in Belgium, we expect them to beat other teams and win the trophy, but they failed to do so.

Since 2006-2010, the Brazilian team hasn't had a good team, it's been more than a decade... And I have no hope of a good team in the short term, maybe only in the next generation of players (in about 15-20 years).

Brazil tried to follow the way of playing European football, based heavily on tactics on the field and left out all the art of football, dribbling, spectacular plays were in the background. It will take a few years for everything to adapt to the new way of playing, focused on tactical schemes, and it may not even work... only time will tell

The truth is: today European teams are far ahead of Brazil, both in ability and in the quality of executing tactics on the field.

The good thing is that Indonesia managed to win with a narrow score of 1-0 with a goal scored by Egi Maulana so they can occupy second place in the group at this time.
It seems that Indonesia is very dependent on naturalized players rather than building a team from existing local players, which is quite understandable, but actually in the long term naturalized players are not a solution because building a team from local players will be much better and that can only be realized with healthy league competition.
Indonesia's position is not yet safe to qualify for the next qualifying round, at least there are still two matches that must be won, namely against Vietnam in the away match and also the Philippines and the match against Iraq is very difficult for Indonesia to win as well as the away match against Vietnam and this will be a difficult job for Shin Tae Yong because if I'm not mistaken he is targeted to bring the Indonesian national team through to the next qualifying round, but actually, if Indonesia fails to progress, Shin Tae Yong is still a coach who is quite successful in bringing changes to the Indonesian national team and PSSI must thank him for his hard work all this time

Even the fact that Belgium is above Brazil is silly, of course Brazil is a better team but they had a bad period and that's why I think it's quite important to remember that we are not going to see them do this badly all that commonly, it will be just fine for them in the end. I just think that the best thing to do with what we have right now is to just focus on what we can make.

I believe that betting on Brazil is still a great way to go, and that means we are going to probably see them do fine, it should not be all that hard. I think betting on them to win the whole world cup could be far fetched, but expecting them to do fine in other games could be better, they are still Brazil and they will beat other teams, aside from maybe Argentina.

We have very good last world cup which was organized by the Qatar with 32 teams and things were surely at the top for the teams and fans which watch these games in grounds because we have huge investment from the authorities for this all with now we are heading for the new format with 48 teams and 3 countries are going to host this mega event which is surely going to be new era of soccer and sports as well and as things will be held this could be challenging for the coming teams which will jump for the hosting rights of this event in coming years.

Now soccer world cup is going to be biggest sport event and surely things are going to take new vision which is good for the game and all fans around the world because after this new era we will have more teams and more entertainment even this is going to be the toughest challenge for the all FIFA and hosting countries, but we need changes like these which will bring more attraction for the soccer fans and all stakeholders which are involved in this all.

It's true, even one of their golden generation, Hazard, has retired, but Belgium has not succeeded in showing its strength as a dominant team in every competition. Some of their best players have also reached the age of 30, such as De Bruyde and Lukaku. Maybe Belgium doesn't lack quality players, but they don't yet have a coach with a lot of experience.

Most of the time when we have too much money involved and things are not working on merit we have corruption and many other scandals things like these are never been new for the countries which are having troubles and not strong system same happening in this CBF with Brazil is one of the best country for the soccer and many big multinational companies are investing huge funds with this all they also needed to have some influence as well so for this all they have strong relationship into organizations which are taking their funds even for the teams developments, but their personal works are also setting by them.

In last 2 decades we have significant decline in quality of the Brazilian soccer which is surely matter of concern, but things are not going as they wanted even they are having a good number of the quality players, but lack of proper leadership is hurting them now how things are going to be fixed this is also not easy, but we can hope they will overcome this all, and we will have quality Brazilian team in 2026 world cup.

The most interesting thing to note in all of this is that, 2026 fifa world cup tournament have more teams than it used to have and from that we have to understand that there will be need for more facilities to host the game and that the reason why they have involved other countries instead just the united states hosting all and since this is the first time the inclusion of multiple countries/team, it far better not to be hosted in one country so as to allow for diversification and proper management if it be one country the cost of managing the event may become too overbearing for FIFA and the host country.


When the Qatar hosting happened, alot of football lovers really enjoyed the tournament because of the level of organization and the Available facilities, and this time, United States may likely have more facilities in terms of stadium and other things but considering the numbers of countries coming for this round of the competition, it best to make available other countries facilities so as to give observers the best form of entertainment, so for that, this season will be one of the most interesting seasons in history of FIFA.