Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 218. (Read 67874 times)

I think Rivaldo was also one of the great players of Brazil, but he never gets too much attention.

One of the most epic moments was his incredible hat trick for Barcelona against Valencia, for a 3-2 win. And the final goal, which qualified Barcelona for the Champions League, was at the last minute, and looked like this:



You can read more about that spectacular performance here: https://www.sportbible.com/football/21-years-ago-today-rivaldo-scored-the-greatest-ever-hattrick-20220617

Pele, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo are the legendary players of Brazil. No one really compares with them. It may not be wrong to call them the best players of Brazil. Every player in the current Brazil team is very skilled and talented but they still have Pele, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo as their idols. Everyone imitates them and wants to be like them. However, Brazil deserves a trophy through the members who are currently in the Brazil team. Having won the World Cup five times so far, they now aim to win the Mission Hexa. For almost five seasons they have been dreaming of winning Mission Hexa but so far they have not been able to fulfill that dream. It is hoped that this dream of Brazil can be fulfilled through the current team of Brazil.

With its current condition, Indonesia must go through two rounds first after that enter the main qualifying round, and compete with 18 countries and ranked first and second will qualify for the 2026 World Cup. The journey is very long, if the Indonesia team can qualify for the first playoff there will still be a second playoff of course it will be even more difficult, and even more difficult in the main qualifying round, because there are strong teams from Asia who have often qualified for the world cup.
It is a real pride to qualify for the World Cup, but to be honest I prefer to see Indonesian football develop even better than focusing on the World Cup target, because it would be embarrassing to qualify but not even be able to score goals.
The development of football in Indonesia only focuses on making players famous rather than improving skills, Indonesian football organizations should be more aggressive in sending their players to compete outside Indonesia if necessary outside Asia to improve skills, because if someone says that the skills of Indonesian footballers are not inferior to other countries, they often Competing in the World Cup is nonsense because if it's true let alone the World Cup and even the Asian Cup we are mediocre, and using the Sea Games gold medal as a benchmark for progress is foolish because the scope of the Sea Games is very small.

Mexico also has hosted it before. And it will be the first time for Canada. Although most of the matches are actually going to be played in the US.

It will be a bit tricky to watch all the games as the time difference will change from time to time as there are multiple time zones involved. Hopefully the local times for most people are not too bad.

This time in the 2026 world cup since we have a country like America hosting it with a much better situation and potential than Qatar I don't think we are going to see the same drama like killing workers from other countries for cheap money to work and build the stadiums.
I the other hand America is a country that hosted the world cup before and I'm sure they know how to host it better than other countries like Qatar.

America and Mexico can prepare for the tournament in their own country all these years. That seems to me to be a huge advantage compared to other countries that have a hard time qualifying for this tournament. In principle, Mexico and America could also qualify themselves, but it could also go wrong. Canada may not even have qualified otherwise, but they managed to qualify at the previous World Cup by the way. It seems that America has big plans and wants to invest a lot of money in American football, which is certainly not one of the first 3 national sports.

That is true, Brazil doesn't have a problem with the quality of their individual players, but Croatia has what Brazil is lacking and Croatia also has some perfect characters like Modric or also Perisic who don't ever stoP giving their best until the very last second. When teams play against Brazil they know that it is about breaking Brazil's mentality and that has happened quite often in recent years. Neymar isn't a leader. They also need players who want to lead when it is not going very well. That is the big difference between someone like Modric and Neymar and I am not sure Brazil has a lot of players who could fill that role.

Little discussing about my national teams journey for FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States

For the Asian zone, FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States qualification round will start October in this year, my national team Indonesia ranked 28th in the Asian zone or 149th FIFA ranked and must play in the playoffs to face national teams from the East Asian zone. For the first Playoff round has format home away and I hope before June my national team Indonesia ranked increasing up and move to second pot. For first pot have to play on playoff round before leading to group qualification but if Indonesian national team winning on few friendly match seems has chance move to second pot and not have to play on playoff round.

Good luck Indonesian national team.

Maybe the reason of why we don't see these players Ronaldinho and Ronaldo anymore is mostly because the tactics are changed in the world and most teams prefer to don't rely on superstar players even players like Neymar can't be useful in the new systems most of the teams use and the true Brazilian playing style is nearly dead.

What is the toxicity of PSG if Messi violated the terms of the contract with his visit to Saudi Arabia, for which, by the way, he later apologized?
If we think globally, we can say this: after a disastrous first season, PSG gave Messi another chance, but it was not used and the parties decided to disperse. If Messi was worth something, he would easily go to City, Bayern, Liverpool, etc., but for some reason he retired to MLS.

It's not just the PSG because Messi himself also wanted to have freedom away from them because of the toxicity they've showed recently when he visited Saudi Arabia, hence why he was not looking forward anymore to play with the PSG. Well, the truth is, it is the PSG who are turning the tables to look like they are the ones who freed Messi when the in-fact it was Messi who gave up on them.

Those are truly wonderful players from Brazil but how can someone like me who grew up with the best duo attacking of the Brazilian national team,Romario and Bebeto not being mentioned when the greatest players of Brazil are being mentioned.Sure these guys could not do that dribbling that Ronaldinho,Ronaldo and Pele could do but they were brilliant in creating great chances out of nowhere and scoring a lot of goals.Neymar is not anywhere near them in my opinion,as he has not achieved anything with Brazil,different from all other players mentioned here.

Yes, the problem with this is that everyone thinks that when the players reach a certain age they are no longer useful, that the youngsters can replace them, if PSG let Messi go, another team will go and buy him whatever They won't care about age, they only want crack and everything he can do, otherwise you have to ask some like Ibrahimovic who, even at 42 years old and still giving it his all, I understand that the statistics were in favor of Messi, but What I want to say is that PSG is not happy with him, they want to get out of it, that is something obvious, what happens is that the Messi case is very covered, it is not finally known what could happen with the future of the Argentine star .

The truth is that the likes of Brazilian Pele, Ronaldinho and Ronaldo were the best players of their football days infact Pele is still regarded as the greatest player to have ever graced the beautiful game of football.
However I'm of the opinion that they were able to achieve all they achieved with national team of Brazil because of the high quality players in Brazil as of that time. Neymar on his though have high profile teammates but they can't be compared to this golden generations of Brazilian football

I think that Brazil played as well as the players of Croatia allowed it with their great game.
In the first half, Brazil could not do anything against Croatia, who played a perfect game and hid the ball from the Brazilian players.
Only when in the second half did the Croatian players get tired and the concentration drop, Brazil finally showed their strength in attack, but not enough to win.
However, during the entire match, it was clear that the players of Croatia matched the players of Brazil very well, and even after the lead of Brazil, it was clear that the match was not decided.
What do you think Brazil's players should have done after taking the lead? Play only in defense, defend desperately and forget about attack? The fans would never forgive them for such a cowardly game and it would not be the real Brazil. It was logical that Brazil could not just defend and that they would try to score the second goal and solve the game, but they failed because of the quality of the Croatian team. Croatia didn't beat Brazil by chance and did not win medals at the last 2 world cups by chance. Whoever calls it luck is underestimating the quality of the Croatian team.
I think Brazil needs a good team spirit and less selfishness in the game much more than a good coach.

I couldn't watch the full game but I just saw some minutes of the game America had a good performance in this game and they scored three goals. While Mexico is not a strong team but still America had good results there and I think if this Maerica shows a good performance in the 2026 world cup we can see the world cup host having a good performance especially when they are going to play the games at home where they have more benefits.
 

Brazil's golden age is over (because that golden generation is gone and not just Ronaldo), but I don't agree that a coach can't do anything if he doesn't have Ronaldo. Such players appear once every hundred years or less, and if you wait for such conditions, you can never achieve them. Many more modest teams have won the title through team play and not through the individual qualities of the players.

In my view, the Brazil-Croatia quarter-final exposed Tite's weak strategy. His lineup adjustments were baffling. Neymar's stunning last-minute goal didn't fix the bad plan. Proper defense could've won the game for Brazil, a tactic Tite missed. I agree that Brazil needs a top-tier coach to match its players' skills. Even after the World Cup, Brazil is still hunting for a competent coach, vital for their future triumphs.

But still, USA has a great chance to win or defend the CONCACAF Nations League title again. Although indeed, the 3-0 victory did have a lot of red cards but by doing so, it is at least proof that they are playing with great ambition to be able to win and to reach the final match. So there is nothing bad in this case for me personally and with that too, then USA is likely to have better quality than Canada, because USA can play with high aggressiveness and also to defend the title.

I don't agree with you.
Brazil never play defensively, that's simply not their style of football and Brazil doesn't know how to play that way.
In addition, Neymar scored a goal in the last minute of the first overtime and after that the whole second overtime was played, full 15 minutes and not just 1 minute, you confused something here.
The main reason why Brazil lost to Croatia is that they did not score more goals and solved the game in time. For this reason, the players of Brazil should be blamed, not the coach, who did everything he could and sent the strongest possible team to the field.