Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 168. (Read 62908 times)

I don't think so.  These kids basically have to go through college to get to theor end goal of playing in the professional leagues.  Most major sports draft out of college because that's the route that has always been.  Basketball is kind of moving away from that, but it's not a 2 way street.  These colleges have just been making tons of money off these kids and the kids do it because it's "part of the process".

So you are saying that the shitty college system in the United States is actually helping it to produce great athletes? I thought about it, and I would agree to it partially. I know that the tuition fee and other expenses in college system is extremely high for the American students, and that is one of the reasons why Bernie Sanders became popular suddenly when he talked about writing off student loans. And education is either free or affordable in most of the European countries (and also in non-European countries such as China). But I do believe that this scholarship system for bright athletes exist in other countries as well.

I think Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and several other countries on the American continent make soccer the favorite there. Even though in America itself football is inferior to sports such as the NBA, it is hoped that the holding of the 2026 World Cup this time will be a good opportunity to increase and attract audience interest in football in the region.

For the appointment of the World Cup host, FIFA has its own regulations in screening participants. Of course all countries have the right to volunteer to host, even the defending champions. However, FIFA prioritizes areas of the country that have minimal interest, this is done as a means of promotion and increasing interest in football itself.

Yeah, at the end of the day it's all about the money.

These leagues make a lot of money by simply having these young players, and in return they basically give them a scholarship.

Seems like a really great deal for the companies running those leagues. It's also a good opportunity for the young players that would have no chance to pay for the expensive university.

I guess that wouldn't work in countries were universities are free or reasonably priced.

Leagues such as the NFL and NBA maybe wildly popular in the US, but at the same time their universities give a lot of importance to athletics and other Olympic sports disciplines. And that is the reason why they perform so well during the Olympic Games. And also, the US attracts a lot of talented athletes. A lot of them migrate to that country and attain the citizenship. In case of football, despite all this they are still unable to perform at the top level. Many of their national team players are of migrant origin, but in the world cups, they have performed poorly.

Well, personally I think that things when it comes to who is going to do the World Cup is something that is no longer measured who is going to do the World Cup, the one who has the greatest taste for soccer, is the one who has the most money and different privileges in FIFA Now things are like that, but of course if we compare in the World Cup in Brazil, obviously many things were seen, including some insecurity, but unlike many countries in these countries of South America one knows how to develop, knows how to act and knows how to defend oneself and especially when to defend oneself, but that is something that only here we do not know how to handle, that is why any South American who goes to the USA, Europe, does not allow himself to be easily intimidated by criminals from there, because they are tainted by the experience of those who What is a school, and even though it is not the idea of that, for future World Cups things must be done differently, there must be much more security, in the World Cup in Brazil there was a stadium that I liked very much, the Arena de Manaus, especially because it is incredibly hot there , I Remember that when Portugal played, they had a 30-minute break so that the players could Hydrate , due to the immense heat, something that Brazilians when they play at that temperature are like fish in water because they don't care. affected in the least.

Now in Qatar things have changed, because there were stadiums where they had their own heating and regulated the internal environment within the field, those were undoubtedly improvements, in terms of safety , well, faultless , what many people did not like is that they could not do escalating them They did not allow certain Liberties so that they would cause lack of control in their country, actually that was what I liked about that World Cup , which was highly criticized and I think it was for that reason, but Qatar wanted to demonstrate the Majesty of their Country , more nothing and I think that they did , Because as I had said in Previous posts of mine , the Saudis were never interested in the ROI of their investment , only that their investment was seen as one of the best in the World.

I think Brazil did it didn't they? In 2014 it was Brazils turn to do it and they were actually doing a good job of it in football sense. To be fair there was a bit of crime rate issue, and maybe some stuff happened but nothing that made the world cup a big disappointment like Qatar at least, that was a whole another reason why that was a disappointment. This one should be the best one in a long while, I think it will definitely be fun enough.

I still have the belief that whoever wins the world cup should be the host, and yes maybe that will result with a nation doing it back to back, if we do not want that then make it the finalist hosting on the second term. This will prevent many nations not being able to do it, and only big football nations do it, but isn't that the point? A football culture big nation to host it would be much better.

If we are able to check few things surely this will give us better updates as their policies are giving them edge too many immigrants are here, and they are having good facilities and other things which are helpful for having better training and financial packages, so this all is in favor of the USA, and they are ruling the sports world unanimously for decades few countries are trying to catch this all but its never been easy for them as things are never been on level.

Even their main sports are different like NFL, MLB and NHL but still they are best in quality and financial package which is not comparable in near future we can expect good changes but still no challenge for the USA in many sports with now they are getting better in soccer as well hopefully this world cup will bring few more improvements.

Maybe something like this will last for a few seasons but it will slowly start to decrease until finally we only see a few players who are interested, especially those who are still quite productive unless they are players who are old enough, because they can play in a league with softer competition with a salary which is also quite large would be a better choice.
There are several players who play in the Saudi Pro League, they can still be said to be young and if they come from a country where there are not many choices of players to become the country's national team, it might not be an obstacle to keep playing for their country, but countries like Spain, Brazil, Portugal, I doubt their country's national team coaches will consider calling up players who play in the SPL unless there is no other option, and are these players still have a chance to play in the European leagues except in smaller leagues like in Turkey, Greece or Russia too.

Football is one of the most favorite sports in the world but in some countries like CONMEBOL as you said there is more popularity for football than other sports that's why if you make CONMEBOL host a football game we know there is higher interest for people to watch this game while in America they give more priority to other sports but still since there are many people migrate America they can have interest on football.
Generally, I don't think if we see any problems regarding this in America.

On this maybe I can agree with you. Football is by far the most popular sport in CONMEBOL region, and that too by a long distance. However, in the US they give importance to a variety of different sports. And this is one of the reason why they always top the Olympics medal table. But then, US is a country of immigrants. There are a lot of migrants from countries such as Argentina and Nigeria, where football is very popular. And this migration rate is going up with every passing year. So we can be confident that fanbase in the US will be larger in the future.

Wow, how did I make the mistake of posting this here, I was supposed to post it in the 2023 Women's FIFA world cup thread, mistakenly did that here, I sincerely apologize for the error, and implore you guys to please ignore the comment, for some reason, I failed to properly verify the thread I was commenting on before putting up this comment, I mistakenly assumed this thread to be women 2023 fifa world cup thread, even though the comment is fifa related, It's not supposed to be here, I apologize once again for the error please.

It could stop if those players did not accept those generous offers, however I am not so sure that those owners are going to stop buying players at such high prices, I mean they have literally bought whole teams before and they have raised the price of signing up players all over the world, they are literally playing with free money and they are no afraid to spend it on what they want, so I doubt this tendency of European players being tempted to play on those leagues is going to stop soon.

The thing is that the US has a lot of very popular sports, as you mentioned, like the NBA, NHL, etc.

But in South America and Europe, basically there is no rival to football. Any other sport is a low second.

In those continents, when there's an important football match, the whole country stops. Everyone is either at the stadium, or watching it on TV at home or at a pub.

And when their home country scores, you can hear the roar from everywhere.

That experience is not seen anywhere else in the world other than South America and Europe.

It's basically a type of people that have fun just like how others do it with going to movies, or going to theater, or going to opera, or whatever. They all get together, and they all watch the game and they all end up friending each other.

When you go watch a game, you end up with friends basically, even if they were not your friends before the game, you become friends after the game and then for the next game you chat on whatsapp to meetup beforehand to grab a couple of drinks, then go to the game. That's how it starts and that's an important thing. This is a hobby thing, it might be making millions and millions for the players, but those millions usually come from viewers, and sponsors who want to reach to those viewers.

A lot of people claim that association football is not very popular in the United States, because the MLS is nowhere near NBA or NFL in terms of revenues. But it may also be due to the fact that the quality of MLS may be low. I don't know how much was the viewership for the recently concluded 2022 FIFA World Cup in the United States. I would assume that it was quite decent, since a large part of the American population is of migrant descent, and originates from football crazy nations such as Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela.

If they will keep up on what they can offer which is really going to last long because they are a rich country, there's no wonder that there will be some new additional to their league soon as that can indeed enticed successful players but aside from that, they also need to culture one of their own as that will be their pride instead of always having foreign players to come and play for them.

Going to a much bigger picture, I have no doubts that Saudi League will be a prestigious one in the next decade because they are already doing a good job these days and with money, they can always have what they want even if they will be rejected in some days.

FIFA has opened a disciplinary proceedings against Luis Rubiales today being Thursday, after the Spanish Football Federation president, kissed Spain star, Jenni Hermoso on the lips following the Women’s World Cup final last weekend.

“The FIFA disciplinary committee informed Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Football Association, today that it is opening disciplinary proceedings against him based on the events that occurred during the finals,” world football’s governing body said in a statement.

FIFA said the incident “may constitute violations of article 13 paragraphs 1 and 2 of the FIFA disciplinary code”.
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This same issue was discussed here some few pages back, most of us saw it as nothing though, but I think I am personally glad that fifa is taking up the matter now, atleast, this will teach the man a lesson and deter others from following in the same footprint.

Read the full news article on - https://punchng.com/fifa-opens-disciplinary-proceedings-against-rubiales-over-kiss/?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=social

I think under FIFA rules, there are provisions on how tickets to world cup matches can be sold among fans hence the needless of external fans to panick about who buys more if the tickets when the World Cup is finally hosted in the Canadia/Mexico/United States.
Initially, we were meant to believe that football isn't a popular sports in the United States instead they prefer basketball but from the number of fans that's been seen around the stadium since Lionel Messi joined the MLS,  I think that impression wasn't correct. Watching the FIFA World Cup in US in 2024 will be a good experience for fans across the world

I think in the USA football was never the most popular sport and other sports like basketball got more priority than football. But since in the USA we are going to have them hosting the 2026 World Cup, I think that's normal to see more interest from people in the country to watch the games than before.
Whenever a country is hosting the World Cup we have their people getting interested to watch the games more than before.