Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 224. (Read 67847 times)

That is expected because not everyone can or is allowed to enter their countries without such valid reasons or proper requirements. Also, even if there are some requirements laid for almost everyone, it is still not that easy to acquire it because there are still other factors that they should consider before giving the visa. Especially if you're someone from the third world country.

In fact, if the World Cup is held in three countries at the same time, football fans will enjoy the weather of three countries. This will be of great benefit to the travel enthusiasts. However, we football fans hope that the next World Cup will be more magnificent than the Qatar World Cup.

The questions raised about Qatar weren't really about their ability to host a World Cup in general, but the methods used and the policies implemented to build the infrastructure for the World Cup. Money isn't a problem, human rights are a problem. Human dignity is a problem. When a country can or regime can build infrastructure for hundreds of billions of dollars, why can't the people building that infrastructure be paid reasonably and be treated fairly and with respect? Why do their passports get seized in order to prevent them from leaving the country? What about all the issues in terms of free speech and gender equality?

I agree with one thing though and that was stupid. People worldwide started complaining when the World Cup was around the corner and not in the moment when it was granted to Qatar. But maybe the hope was that Qatar will use the chance and build the infrastructure under fair conditions for everyone. Mission failed.

I am more than happy to see the combination of Mexico, Canada and USA host this World Cup as I also like a lot that it is not only North America, but also South America as part of the representative group. It's a great mix of countries that promises a lot of enthusiasm for the whole event. Lots of people have the chance to visit the stadiums and feel the vibes right around the corner if they can't get a ticket. That is how it should be.

Every country tries to represent their country as the host of World Cup football. Due to which every country spends a huge amount of money. No such initiative has been taken in Islamic countries before. Due to which, from the beginning, there were many doubts about how successful Qatar will be as a football host for the World Cup 2022. Though Qatar was successful in that respect, the issue that comes up is at that time, many workers died during the preparation of the stadium that is much higher than in other countries. I don't think America or Europe will have such a picture of hosting a Football World cup. Working there using technology will improve the quality of work as well as workers can be safe. The most important thing is that there is no need to build a new football stadium that was not in Qatar.

But I didn't think if Brazil got enough good players for the next world cup and I feel worried about them because their famous players like Neymar are not in a good situation at all he is also getting old which can be a reason to say Brazil will bot strong team in next world cup unless something changes.



I agree with you, it's not because of the religion and even their culture, Qatar made many mistakes while their culture and traditions are also against it.


The main host is America because compared to the two other countries they have more facilities and they have a better potential for the world cup, two other countries will just be America because there will be more teams and more games in the next world cup.

It is a controversial issue to compare Qatar with other Islamic countries - it is too rich a country and in fact there can be at least Islam, at least belief in aliens - there is no tension between different segments of the population because everyone is more or less rich. Now imagine a poorer country where religion is traditionally used to oppress the population. When holding such an event as the World Cup and such women (as I understand you were talking about that Croatian model with impressive forms), there can be an explosion from both fanatics and those who want a non-religious state and civil liberties.

It's not about the "culture", it's not about religion neither, it's about politics. If Qatar wanted to, they could have let anyone be anyway they want, there was a woman who got famous (and that was her aim) by wearing clothes Qatar didn't want, and they didn't jail her for it, nothing really happened to her, which shows that they can let it be if they want to, did anything happen? But, I can guarantee you that there will be more people like that on the next one.

The question is not public, it's government based and if government allows people then nothing changes and it can be exactly the same anywhere, it's all about the laws. I think 2026 will be pretty amazing, we are going to see football and fans as it should be, I don't want to see hooligans, but I also do not want to see this neither, and USA is the middle of it, just cheering and that's about it, nothing major I believe.

I don't know about that but just like what you have said, only few games will be played in both Canada and Mexico so they might stick to what they have instead of building stadiums that will probably waste them more money instead of benefitting from the event, but maybe there will be some few changes in their existing stadiums like increasing the capacities if they can and make it more luxurious as not every time they can host such event.

This is also due to increased globalization over the past few decades. For more and more people, the home is the globe and not just a single country anymore. Lots of African players are playing in the best leagues in the world and hence perform better at World Cups at well. Morocco did great but I was not as surprised to be honest as they have some great players in their team who can carry the rest. I think we will see more often that teams from Europe and South America will have a hard time to beat teams from less popular places (in terms of soccer) around the world. Popular in terms of financially supported and appreciated. But I like the tendency that soccer becomes more competitive and there are no such things as guaranteed wins in the round of 16 only because your opponent is from Africa. Those times are over more or less.

The next World Cup Brazil team will be hugely promising. There are currently some players in the Brazilian team who are playing in big clubs and are performing exceptionally well. Accordingly, these players of the next World Cup will become great experienced and will present their team well.

Apart from Luka Modric, there are four other players who also played a role in helping Croatia finish third at the Qatar World Cup. Brazil, which is considered a strong candidate at the Qatar World Cup, had to admit Croatia's superiority through a penalty shoot-out after a draw in normal and extra time. LOL

Brazil has always been able to produce talented players in any position and if you look at the age of Neymar at this time then the 2026 world cup will be the last. Because at this time many other young players are showing almost the same quality as Neymar and they just need the opportunity to play and maybe Copa America will be a place for young players to gain the trust of coaches.

At least if in the future World Cup Neymar is still the player of choice, they can enter as a substitute in the squad and I don't think the quality of Brazilian players need to be doubted, but usually young players who are owned by Brazil are more emotional and cannot control their emotions during play, so coaches should try to give them opportunities when the time is right and have senior players guiding them.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that Saudi Arabia, another rich Arab and Muslim country, has a very good chance of becoming the host of the World Cup in 2030 or 2034. They are already official candidates and are spending a lot of money on their promotion, and part of that plan is  bringing Benzema and Ronaldo to play in their league.
As for the rest, it is common knowledge that today everyone knows how to play football and that everyone has improved tactically and physically, and that the difference in quality between the best European national teams and African and Asian national teams is getting smaller and smaller.
At the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, Ghana almost made it to the semi-finals, but they unfortunately lost to Uruguay on penalties.

I agree with you but not completely.
We have many other Muslim countries that can host the world cup and there is not any problem in their country when they host it if they really make rules for the visitors for their country and don't make them obey the Islam rules, I think Qatar could do the same they could make exceptions for the visitors. 
Also, I think Qatar is not guilty and we can't blame this country for what happened in 2022 because FIFA made a mistake by letting them host the world cup because Qatar had no potential for hosting the world cup at all and it was a main reason for us to say we should blame FIFA instead of Qatar for the 2022 world cup.

I agree with you about the deaths of construction workers. Just look at the statistics from big construction projects in other countries to see that the media has specifically touched on the subject of the World Cup in Qatar. But I have no doubts that the World Cup will be held at the highest level in America. I am sure that the next World Cup will be one of the best in recent years.

I don't understand why you think that a country with Muslim traditions could host a World Cup? I think you are confusing a few concepts here. Muslims can be extremely hyped for soccer. Look at the Turkish people and how passionate they are about the sport. I guess you are referring to the restrictive policies in Qatar and the violation of human rights and free speech. It is the Qatar interpretation of Muslim religion that made you think they couldn't host a World Cup I suppose?

I think Turkey, even though lots of things go wrong there as well, is still a Muslim country with almost 99% of the population being Muslim. Yet I would say that Turkey is quite different from Qatar or Saudi Arabia. They have secular tendencies that are more in harmony with the Western idea of free speech and equal rights for women and men. In Qatar people were afraid of women getting banned from the soccer games and also other forms of discrimination against them (clothing especially).

In general I think Muslims can be hardcore fans and Turkey is a good example for that. We should always try to allow countries host the World Cup throughout the whole world regardless of the dominating religion. In Qatar it wasn't about the religion, the concerns were about their fundamentalistic interpretation of the Muslim religion and the politicization of the event as a means to global positive fake recognition.

Unfortunately I confess, this is true! lol Modric was onfire
An important point that was decisive for Croatia is that Brazil was extremely unresponsive after Croatia goal.
Brazil was destabilized and emotionally affected, especially on penalties


I confess don't have a definite answer
I believe... in 2026 it could be Neymar's last cup.
And I also imagine, the 2022 World Cup was the last one for Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi (although, they still have physical preparation and a lot of technique and skill)

The Qatari authorities really maintained an aesthetic view of the stadiums during the World Cup in Qatar. Football fans were all impressed by the beauty of the stadiums and hope that in the next World Cup too we will see some great stadiums whose shape and design will amaze us.

Well, the US and Mexico already have hosted the world cup in the past, so I guess the pressure of new stadiums would be mostly for Canada.

Even though there will be only a few matches in Canada and Mexico, most of the matches are going to be in the US, which already have a reasonable amount of stadiums.

I don't think there will be many new stadiums built for that world cup.

This is very funny to me because I can't still understand what you mean that Quatar killed a lot for workers just to build a shiny stadium. Many of the countries that had been hosting the world cup always build a stadium for it because they know that it will bring center if attraction to them and make people that likes to go on vacation to see good reasons of coming to there country for flexing and holiday. Since the United States and Canada would be hosting the world cup, I hope to see impressive stadium and enough space for people to enjoy themselves.

You are aware that the history of the dead workers are just hyped by western media driven by politics? You can just look at the workers in whatever place you want and see their conditions, try to find some informations from Paris Olympic games and how they are treated.. Just to remind you that France criticised badly Qatar but they aren't any better.
For USA, the situation is not any better and getting the challenge to host the World Cup is very courageous although things changed a lot from like 1/4 century to now.