Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 125. (Read 62943 times)

The journey of being great in football isn't just as easy as many may feel it is, infact it's very much obvious that there are hurdles that needs to be overcome. Even though it's very much likely that things may change at some point, but the dream is undying. There's definitely a or some reasons why people settle for football, first may likely be for the fun of it, there the passion for it takes the major course and the resilient spirit too being inert. They keep up the struggle because there's this zeal to enjoy what football as a sport meant. Every youngster would always have that in mind then inwardly projecting himself in the affluence lives of the players and then there is a new reason which balls around the financial gain from it.

 No one wants to be a suffering player, everyone wants to earn from it and even earn more from the tournament bonuses. In all, there's this push and driving force to making a life out of football, how beautiful the sport is, it's still also tagged to be the best in all, it's literally a sport that brings all kinds of people together in harmony and definitely more and more young players with greatness quest will arise.

It's very surprising to see that after six games played in the CONMEBOL FIFA World Cup Qualifiers, a big team like Brazil is lying in the six position behind teams like Columbia, Venezuela and Ecuador. Another big team in the CONMEBOL that's not living up to expectations of football fans is the Chile national team who's currently in the 8th position. That been said, I don't think that there's anything that's gonna stop Brazil from reaching the finals of the FIFA World Cup in 2026 because they have all the quality players needed to easily qualify for football's biggest tournament in 2026.

Argentina and Uruguay who are respectively leading the the qualifications table I also think are gonna surely make it to the finals as we all

I think Brazil is capable of performing better compared to what they have been doing. I also think that so far they have been facing pretty decent opponents as well. No, I do not think Brazil is going to miss the World Cup. But you never know. Something crazy might happen. People also did not expect Italy to miss the World Cup. But they did. I am not saying that Brazil is going to miss the World Cup. But there is definitely a chance for back to happen. Even though the chance is very small. And I absolutely agree with you that there is no chance for complacency.

I think difference level national team between UEFA and CONMEBOL zone due Brazil need finish above six standings place automatically will qualify to world cup. But not make it easy after three consecutives matches loss and Brazil have wake up upcoming match next year for securing their top six position place. Have many points gap with Argentina on the first standing and must have won for several matches later if Brazil keep on the top position behind will make difficult under 7th standings will get playoff round.
Brazil next match against Ecuador but still very longer time, hope any player still injury will get recovery and already for the upcoming match and bring back Brazil to the top standing as possibilities with 2nd or 3rd placed.

There is only a remote chance that Brazil will miss qualification. Because from this time onwards CONMEBOL is being allotted a total of 6.5 spots in the world cup. So out of 10 teams participating in the qualifiers, 6 will get direct qualification based on their standing in points table, while the 7th ranked team need to take part in Inter-confederation play-offs. At this point, Brazil is at 6th position. And I am sure that they will improve their position once the tournament restarts by September 2024. But there is no room for complacency. All of the participating teams are very strong in CONMEBOL.

@Leviathan. 007 Brazil should be careful not to repeat the mistakes of Italy otherwise in coming year’s they’ll be absent from the World Cup and personally I never got over the news of Italy missing out hence can’t see a World Cup without Brazil ever. Furthermore the gap exists because Brazil player’s play in important leagues and if other countries want to close the gap they need to try and get their player’s to play in big leagues to gain much needed exposure.

Football is type of sport that is very popular, even in every country, many young people are trying to pursue career as football player, they practice by joining football schools and participating in several tournaments.
Everything doesn't go smoothly, they have to go through many obstacles and also very tight competition because so many children and teenagers are trying to become great players so that in the future they can join big and famous teams.
But all this is done not solely for achievement and popularity but also about the money that can be earned as football player.
A player who succeeds in joining big team has fantastic pay.

In fact, it not just about player, but everyone related to football wants money, not just achievements and just look at anyone who enters the sports industry who has extraordinary wealth.
It is not surprising that some people consider football to be place of massive capitalism.

But it doesn't matter because everyone wants decent life and for any country that is able to enter to participate in the World Cup they also get big profits.
In fact, this biggest event for football has also succeeded in providing financial progress for each country that has been used as host.
Many people with their businesses can develop because there are people in every country watching the World Cup, they stay in hotels, they buy food, they buy souvenirs.
Each has its own benefits and advantages.

Venezuela and Bolivia - these two teams are regarded as the weakest ones from CONMEBOL. But this time around, they have performed well. Venezuela is at 4th position in the points table, with 2 wins from 6 matches and a total of 9 points. So far they have lost only one match - against Colombia. Bolivia is at the 9th position, but right now they are ahead of Peru. BTW, Brazil will not miss the ticket to 2026 world cup even if they finish at the 7th position. 7th placed team will enter into Inter-confederation play-offs, and in this case the 7th placed team from CONMEBOL will play against one team from either AFC, CAF, CONCACAF or OFC.

I think this will be the world cup of Uruguay. They always play very well, and they seem to be doing great in this qualifier.

Venezuela has an historical bad reputation, but they managed to draw with Brazil. I actually think that Brazil might end up 7th and therefore out of this world cup.

That's going to be historical as it would be their first time to not qualify.

Regarding CONMEBOL, I think the gap between teams like Argentina and Brazil to really huge, and this can show all other teams in this federation are not at the same level as teams like Argentina and Brazil. However this time brazil was not not performing well enough.
 

Football and it's concept currently are far more opposite to it's concept before now. We'd testify that football back then was much more fun and intentional than it is now. The legends made football beautiful, the football bodies doing their best to ensure that the well being of players are in check, currently no one is bothered about anyone.

 The football body has in itself as much corrupt acts as can be numbered. The whole intention of football has been drifted from being a fun and leisure game while earning from it to a game where the earnings come first before the fun and passion for it, no offense meant but FIFA as a body are now focused more in the money to be earned.

 They take away the fun of it, make impositions that'll favour them and their pockets and leave aside the welfare of players and teams. Nothing else bothers them as long as they get the quota allocated to them. There may not be a change to the view of football in this present time but one just has to understand that the context has definitely been altered.

We must accept that Brazil will qualify to play in the main stage of the World Cup but the current performance of Brazil is not good at all and because of the current performance we are unhappy and that is why Brazil fans are arrogantly saying that their team may not be able to play in the main stage of the World Cup. Neymar has been injured for a long time and he is trying his best to recover from the injury.  Some videos of Neymar's return from injury have gone viral on social media and it looks like he is still ready to give his best for the Brazil team. If Neymar returns to the Brazilian team, the attacking line of the Brazilian team will be a little stronger and Brazil will qualify for the main stage better.

Mannnn, the Conmebol qualifier its never been so easy for the big teams, they have now more places than ever, and some teams like Bolivia are pure shit and are gonna be in the bottom as ussual, so obviusly the national teams you mention are gonna be in the World Cup. It was more fun before with only 5 teams getting the ticket.

That would be lovely, reaching out to places that wasn't reached out before would be quite good for them, they really need to grow football a lot. I understand that social media helped a bit, but we are still talking about a 2+ hour deal, between the half time and the extra added times on both halves, we will have 2+ hours of our life in football every week, and that's just for fan of one game, if you watch other games as well, then we are talking about insane amount of time going to football.

In a day and age when nothing else was good, I understand why football was great, but nowadays there are many competitions to football, people can watch or do so many more things at home now, so convincing them to watch football is harder. World cup should be a place where you can convince a lot of people, the reach is greater.

Regardless of the last matches I think Brazil will qualify, along with Argentina, Uruguay, Ecuador and Colombia

The sixth place is harder, I don't 'believe' in Venezuela even when they are in third place right now, I think the most likely sixth team will be Peru

Brazil has been quite disappointing in several World Cups, after winning the last time their performance was not that special, even when they were hosts they had to suffer a crushing defeat to Germany and that was the most humiliating defeat the Brazilian national team had ever experienced, in my opinion, which even happened in front of their public.
However, saying that Brazil will not achieve good things in the next World Cup seems too hasty because after all Brazil is a country that has quite a lot of players and these players have careers in many different leagues, with changes in coaching staff next year it is very likely that there will be changes that brought by the coach, especially since the 2026 World Cup is being held on the American continent and usually countries from that continent will perform better and have a big chance of becoming champions, although this is not a certainty, just a prediction.

Yes, is Brazil's worst performance ever in a qualifier round, but since conmebol has 6 places (60% of their members asociations) I don't think they are really worried... yet

Still in papers brazil can do far better, we'll see if there is a comeback

And... I know is a bit too early but, predictions about the 6 conmebol teams to 2026 anyone?

Brazil didn't lose against Peru? As you have stated in your post as well, do you mean Uruguay? That could be the situation and maybe that's the result you are talking about, nobody expected them to lose against Uruguay and they did, and had a three loss in a row situation, well to be fair losing to Argentina does make sense considering Argentina is the latest world cup title winners, but the other two games where they lost to Uruguay and Colombia was a shocker to the whole world.

I think they technically still have a chance, so it is not really end of the world for them, they will do their best and they will try to win as many games as they possibly could, that should be an important thing, if they can do that then they will be fine.

Well.. I have to say that the CONMEBOL qualifiers have a very shitty format this time around. After the 6th round in November 2023, the next round is scheduled for September 2024. There is a 10 month gap between the 6th and 7th rounds. It is very difficult to follow the tournament, given the lengthy gaps between matches. And now coming to Brazil, this means that they have sufficient time for self-introspection and regrouping. If they still can't win their matches, then they will miss the ticket to 2026 World Cup.

Yeah, the qualifiers just started, heaps of matches to go.

And more importantly, a lot of time to change their mindset.

That's the key, they need to change how they perceive their team. They are now playing with a losing mentality. They need to change it, but that requires time.