Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 140. (Read 57610 times)

Argentina won the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, ending a long wait of 36 years. After the race to win the world, Le Albiceleste is entering the field again. World champion Lionel Messira will fight in the World Cup qualifying match of the Latin American continent ahead of the 2026 World Cup. Argentina will play in the World Cup qualifying match against Ecuador on Friday, September 8. Lionel Scaloni, the coach of the team, has arranged a plan to beat Ecuador around Messi, who is in great rhythm. They have already completed the team training ahead of the important match. The three-time world champion Argentina will enter the field with a full strength team in the World Cup qualifying match against Ecuador. In addition to Messi, who won the Ballon d'Or for a record seven times, Emiliano Martinez, Mac Allister, Nicolas Otamendi, Rodrigo de Paul can be seen in the starting eleven.

I am sure that the South American players would not have any problem traveling from the USA to Canada and from Canada to Mexico, because basically when they are in the world qualifiers, which in fact start tomorrow, as things can be seen, it is always traveling in an ap ´Yes to another, and from a very hot climate to a very cold climate, I think this can really hit European players who basically don't travel as much, only in periods of holidays or when the UCL final is going to be which is in another host country, so on that side I think that the guadores would not be affected, in addition it can cause fatigue because basically when traveling many things become evident, delays in training, arrival, what Sometimes you have to be at the airport at the right time, the stress that it can generate in the players, all these things can have a noticeable effect, it is something that cannot be denied, we could think that things for some may be more useful stronger than others, that is why in these cases the preparations that are made in the World Cup era are very important, it cannot be denied that things can get tough at any time that is necessary or warranted during the mudal, but as in The World Cup has a lot of things like days in which everyone rests, since they have to take advantage of it from the day they leave a game, immediately after making the trip, so that the players can rest and sleep during the trip.

However, I don't know how they are going to organize the World Cup in this case, host more world teams, where each one of us hopes that we can see our teams there, I want to see Italy, because Italy is a team that has very good football, style and history, as well as my country that has never been there because the emotion would be unique, and as I have said before, I would like to see India in this World Cup.

I don't agree with this argument. It is good that FIFA has increased the number of participants from 32 to 48. But what this has to do with undeserving teams gaining direct entry? Next time it is going to be even more complicated. There are going to be combined bids from Spain–Portugal–Ukraine–Morocco, as well as from Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay. If any of the nations win right to host the tournament, then a number of weaker teams will gain direct entry to the tournament at the cost of more deserving teams. Increasing the number of participants is not going to resolve this issue. 

No, nothing is automatically or guaranteed and democracy also has its flaws, yet it is the best and fairest way to govern a country.

Including more countries has its own set of problems for sure, there is no doubt about that. But the question is whether the positive aspects of including more countries/people to such an event outweigh the negative aspects of not doing so.

This where equality does of course come into play. A country should have a fair chance to participate even if it is tiny or not as well developed as others. That is why I am for a larger World Cup although I know that the quality of some games from a fan's perspective will suffer.

After injury, Brazilian star Neymar returned to the team of the World Cup qualifiers. Brazil is persistent in the goal of Mission Hexa. Brazil is already active in fulfilling their dream of their sixth trophy in the United States in 2026. Therefore, the Brazil Football Confederation has announced a 23-member team for the first two rounds of the qualifiers, keeping Neymar, the symbol of Brazil's hope. The last time Neymar, who was named in Al Hilal, played in the Seleção jersey in the World Cup in Qatar. After that, the star missed three friendly matches of the national team due to injury. Neymar can return to the team with the qualifying match against Bolivia on September 8. The Selecao will play against Peru on September 12.

I don't think that would be a greater problem as the number of teams are up from 32 to 48. Even though Canada, Mexico and United states are let in without qualifier, there are 14 more slots available than the last time. Increasing 16 teams at once means there would be 50% more teams than last time competing in this tournament. The tournament would last longer and there would be increased number of matches.
The idea of including larger number of diverse team are inline with creating a global tournament but how the people would react to the longer format is not clear yet. I personally believe 104 matches which are nearly double from last tournament would be fine as it's once in a 4 year event and everyone would attract larger viewership than last tournaments.

Its not happening for World Cup, Argentina as defend national team after winning FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar must play in qualifier round there are not special placed get by them. Not first time but all national teams have winning World Cup need to play in qualifier round for next world cup except they will be host. Spain, Germany and France are national team winning last edition of FIFA World Cup but they must play in qualifier round and I don't its good ideas adapting in World Cup. For host of World Cup have special for them and qualify to World Cup without have to play in qualifying stage.

United State, Canada and Mexico will not take participant in qualifying round and they will automatically will play in World Cup 2026 because they are host in this edition.

Isn't it strange that the defending champions (Argentina) need to play the qualifier tournament to gain entry to the world cup in 2026, while teams like Canada and Mexico don't need to go through the same? And these two nations are hosting less than 10% of the total matches (10 each, out of a total of 104), and despite that they are being granted automatic entry. I didn't had an issue with Russia in 2018 and Qatar in 2022, partly because only one team is being given direct entry. But 2026 is not like that. And 2030 seems to be even more complicated, given the South American bid.

The new FIFA adoption that allows multiple countries to host the FIFA World Cup doesn't sit well with majority of football lovers even when the World football body are trying to be more inclusive in their policies and help many nations to brag of hosting the World Cup that comes just ones in every four years.
One of the reasons some fans aren't okay with the multiple hosting is the fact that every hosting country automatically qualifies to play in the competition making it difficult for other countries of the same continental association to qualify for the finals of the tournament because their number of a available slots will reduce

I very much agree with you though, but then, I believe the coming world cup will be the first in history fifa history that multiple countries will be hosting the world cup, I personally have this believe that the coming world cup will act as an experiment for them, if it happens that they the coming tournament difficult in any way, maybe in terms of logistics and other factors like traveling, this I believe will tell if the bid for a multiple countries hosting the 2030 world cup will hold or not.

Though I still personally believe that aside the possible logistics and travel complexities , the idea of a multiple countries hosting the world cup is not completely bad, as it has its benefits as well .

CBF should not have taken such a decision before the offense was proved. Anthony has been accused of beating his ex-girlfriend, but the accusation has not been proven in court so far, so the decision to exclude him from the national team based on the allegations alone is not correct by the CBF, the highest governing body of Brazilian football. Even if his allegations are proven true, he should have been punished according to the law, keeping a star like him out of football could ruin his football skills. Anthony is a very talented Brazilian player who has performed well in several matches for Brazil in important matches so it is a very disappointing news that he has been left out of the squad.

I am strongly against multiple countries hosting the world cup, because it creates a lot of complexities not just for logistics and travel, but also for qualification. In case the combined bid from South America ends up winning the hosting rights for 2030, then how many of these nations will be granted automatic qualification? If all the four nations are being provided direct entry, then it would mean that there will be just 2 entries available from the CONMEBOL qualifiers. And one of them will be taken up by Brazil, which means just one spot for all the other teams.

The reason used by the football federation is to protect the player, and actually, it makes sense because he will get a lot of pressure from the media so that it will probably affect his performance and if they lose you can imagine the blame will be placed on the player who is in trouble.
I agree with you that he should still be able to play but problems in personal life can really affect a player's mentality, and it was better for Anthony to accept that protesting would only get him in bigger trouble
This is good for Gabriel Jesus because he can prove himself to be a good player and the right choice for Brazil, and also Brazil is full of talented players it's not a problem for them to find a replacement for Anthony', and Anthony is not too special so his absence will make it difficult for Brazil to win.
Just waiting to see what Manchester United will do for this player.

And it's not only in two countries, the next World Cup will be played in three different countries: US, Canada, Mexico.

And there's a South American bid that includes four countries: Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

I really wish they select that one because it will be the 100th anniversary, and the first one was in Uruguay. It would be epic to go back to it.

I am against punishment before investigation. Gabriela Cavallin, Anthony's girlfriend claims that she has proof that the player engaged in domestic violence against her. But Anthony denies such allegation and claims his innocence. We have seen many of these cases dropped because of a lack of evidence. My argument is that the player should be allowed to engage in his profession until he is found guilty.  His engagement in foosball will not affect investigations, so he shouldn't have been dropped from the match against Bolivia and Peru. He should not be punished before the investigation because he may be innocent. But this is an opportunity for Gabriel Jesus to be part of the national team.

Traveling within the United States is unlike doing that in any other country. USA stretches for more than 4,000 km from East to West. Traveling that much distance in an aeroplane will take at least half a day (adding in the time required for airport transfers and security checks). Traveling by road or rail is going to take even more time. And for the 2026 edition, it is further complicated by the fact that apart from US, Canada and Mexico are also hosting some of the matches. Fans need to deal with huge distances and several languages and cultures.

In recent times it has been normal to see many cases of famous players involved in cases of attacks against women, it seems to me that this may be related to the fact that players, because they earn a lot of money and fame, look at women as a simple worthless object and that It is also combined with the fact that most women run after famous soccer players because they have money, so this created conditions for players to look at women as worthless objects, I have seen many cases of Brazilian players, when they go playing in Europe and achieving fame and a lot of money has been involved in many controversies involving attacks on women

Only in the last 5 years have I heard cases of Neymar who was accused of assault against a woman who apparently later discovered that the sex case was consensual, there was the case of Robinho who is also accused of rape, then there was also the case of the player Daniel Alves who was also arrested and accused of sexual rape, now there is this case of Anthony who, based on the information he sees circulating, it seems to me that it is not something small, it seems more that the guy has some guilt at least in the matter of verbal aggression, I don't know if it really crossed the line from verbal aggression to physical aggression

but one thing is certain: players need to have psychological support in their teams, because it seems that earning a lot of money and having a lot of fame is making them lose moral and ethical values and without these values they have constantly been involved in scandals and today Nowadays, clubs live on sponsorship and image, which is why they cannot associate themselves with a player with a bad image, mainly because fans do not forgive cases involving sexual assault.

Anthony situation is a weird one, if it was real then I would understand him being dropped from the national team, but if it is a lie? Then why would Brazil suffer from some woman's lie? Anthony is a player that helps his team win games, he plays good, he is talented and he definitely could create his own possessions, so he is someone they really would need.

I am not saying that do not drop him if he did it, if he really hurt his ex girlfriend not only he should be dropped from the nation team, but he should be let go from United and just be jailed overall, hurting someone is not acceptable no matter how big your name is. But there is zero proof about that so far, and that is not going to be ok to just lie about it.

I understand but I think that there's only few people who are against travelling because we know that even if it will happen in one same country, the players along with its staff will still have to face the trouble in having fatigue and stress because they will still travel from one place to another and have some preparation before they can play to their sport. There's literally no difference at all and instead it will be their time to rest as there's sure no training whenever they are travelling. These players are already accustomed with travelling and these things comes in a package whether they like it or not.

Apart from being simpler and able to provide good efficiency, it will also improve the smooth running of the World Cup because using multiple countries as the host of the World Cup can cause conflicts that can occur at any time and each team must adapt in every place that will be used with the weather conditions of each country is different and not all players can easily adapt to these differences.

It's that on the other hand there is a positive impact with the multi-country hosting the World Cup, namely being able to develop the football industry for two countries at once and being able to provide financial benefits for the people of the two countries.