Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 12. (Read 45659 times)

Is Philiphine a strong team? I remember seeing them lose to Vietnam in this qualifier, so I believe that would be the priority for Indonesia if they want to go through the qualifier. Seeing Iraq win 5-0 against the Philippines might affect how they play against Indonesia, but it shouldn't differ much as long as Indonesia's team doesn't change too many players. If I'm not wrong, they fielded many new players against Vietnam, if they can improve their teamwork they should be able to play better against Iraq or the Philippines.

Do you think the nationalization strategy will be sustainable in the long run? I'm not confident if we see a change of leadership or coach in the national team this good trend will continue. I guess time will tell if the national sports organization will continue to prioritize our national team's development or if they will focus more on making money through deals, ads, etc.

Happy to see the Indonesian national team successfully beat Vietnam and this time with a convincing score and because this is an away match, it is even more convincing that Indonesia is experiencing very good development so far, no longer being a team that is easy to beat but becoming a team that must be taken into account by any team, including Iraq is the strongest team in this group, maybe in the match in June Indonesia will have difficulty beating Iraq but they will be motivated to at least get one point especially since the match against Iraq is a home match where Indonesia will get full support from Indonesian football fans in the future so it will further motivate them to perform well and try to get maximum results.

The victory against Vietnam make Indonesian team one step closer qualifying to the next round as runner up standings position behin Iraq national team, its very good result become the first time since 20 years ago the last time Indonesian team can defeated Vietnam and make Shin Tae-yong success become the first manger after twenty years ago take three points on Vietnam's home. Next match Indonesian team has opportunity for securing next round place if can beat Iraq on their home, I think two winning back to back against Vietnam at home and away match give more motivate for Indonesian team continue the winning trend on their home.
Indonesia team has two matches left and take three points is enough to secure one place on third round qualifier, wish Indonesia has opportunity for the first time will play in FIFA World Cup after new regulation additional teams up to 48 participants.

It was really unexpected because Indonesia actually managed to beat Vietnam away with score of 0 - 3 and this was big victory for Indonesia because this victory was the first time Indonesia was able to win over Vietnam away.
This was long wait because it had been 20 years this is the first time big away win has been possible.
With this victory, it is clear that Indonesia still has the opportunity to advance to the next round of World Cup qualification, making everyone, especially the Indonesian people, have high hopes for their proud team.
Now Indonesia has managed to save 7 points and has difference of 5 points from Iraq which is the strongest team in Group F, Iraq itself in the 4 matches that have been played in total they have managed to win overall and Iraq is the toughest opponent for Indonesia.
Furthermore, at the beginning of June, Indonesia will compete against Iraq, it is clear that Iraq is not an easy opponent for Indonesia, so preparations must really be made to be able to play this match as well as possible.
If they are not able to beat Iraq, at least Indonesia must be able to draw in this match to still be able to have an additional point even if only one, with draw they can also maintain the difference in points obtained by Iraq.
In this way, Indonesia has the opportunity to remain in comfortable position and still be able to continue to advance to the next round of World Cup qualification in the Asian zone.

This situation in Brazil makes me sad about this team and the young players they have.
In Brazil they have many young talents like Vini and Endrick and but these players need better coaches. You can just understand this when you see a player like Vinicius play in Real Madrid with a better coach he has really improved and helped this player to have better performance but unfortunately, he doesn't have a good coach in Brazil, otherwise, he could have even had better performance than this.
Regardless of that, in the 2026 World Cup, I'm waiting to see a good performance from Endrick because he will be a bit more experienced than this which can help this player to have a good performance.

From what I say in the game between Brazil and England, the Samba Boys are set to conquer the world just as they did in 1994 and 2002. They have some young players who are fast, strong and experienced. England would have conceived more goals if not for some blunders and goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. The biggest threat to the Brazilian side is the attack made up of young stars like Rodrygo, V. Júnior, Raphinha and the discovery of Endrick.

The English team didn't play badly because they were able to also push forward and test the Brazilian goalie Bento. But they still have much work to do at the back because we saw some defenders specifically Harry Maguire making some costly mistakes. This World Cup will be action-backed based on the performance of some national teams in these friendly games.

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