Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 246. (Read 57875 times)

There is no doubt that both the Asian countries of Japan and South Korea are continuously striving to build their national teams, and both of them are striving to make their teams more organized than their Asian counterparts. As far as I know, of all the Asian teams they have played in the world cups, South Korea is the only one they have ever managed to play in a semi-final in 2002. I guess they would have been able to play better in the last world cup, and I'm eager to see what will happen in 2026.

Talking about Japan and South Korea, they are more organized in terms of developing sports such as football and the large number of players who also compete in European leagues makes their national players have more experience and that is quite helpful when they will compete in the World Cup later. , and agree with you that there will be many Asian countries that will only be cheerers during the World Cup later but maybe it will be different if they start to improve from now on even though the results will not be immediately visible but at least in the next few World Cups there will be more Asian countries which provides strong resistance for strong teams such as from European and American countries.

I agree with you to some extent. Sports should be separated from politics (but that doesn't happen always). But in this case, there is a strong link between the deaths of workers and the world cup. Because these workers died during the construction of stadiums during the world cup. Complaints were made to FIFA about the poor working conditions, but they refused to interfere. And at that point, they had a lot of influence and could have done something good for the workers if they had the will. The 6,000+ deaths during the construction of world cup stadiums will remain as a blot for FIFA, as long as this competition exists.

For the African continent, it is clear, there are many players from African countries who play with teams in European leagues. In fact, there are several names who have become star players who have played for big European clubs. like for example, Sadio Mane, Osimhem, and also many other players. Even so, I don't really know for sure how things are going in their domestic league. at least, Africa is currently doing better than Asia.

For Asia, it is true that there are many Asian players playing in European competitions. but not all of Asia, mostly dominated by players from Japan, or South Korea. the rest, not so famous.To be honest, because I come from Asia, football in Asia doesn't change much. whether it's from the organization, finance, system, infrastructure, everything is below the level of European football. Naturally, if the quality of teams from Asia is very low.

But different from Japanese football, South Korea, they have a much better system than other Asian. even if the two countries are serious about developing their football. I believe, Japan and South Korea can be much better than what they are currently showing. So, speaking of the 2026 world cup. several Asian teams that will participate in the world cup rounds later, will only be entertainment teams. I do not intend to belittle, but armed with what I know. that's the truth. however, the world cup still has a long time lag, hopefully teams from Asia will want to build up their football so that it can grow even more.

America has it's own problems with poor people not getting any financial or any other aid. I'm pretty sure that won't change even if they don't have to build new stadiums. I don't know why people expect that football competition should cause a country to change the way they treat poor people. I'm not saying that it's OK not to financially support poor people, I just think that football should focus on playing football and organizing competitions and let politics care about financial aids.

There are many things on TV that look great and better than they actually are, but in fact, there are many poor people in Qatar who can receive some assistance from the government instead of building this stadium for the world cup because the Qatari government has no resources for the world cup. In 2026, I guess American's situation will be much better and they will not spend such a large amount of money on building stadiums when they have so many people who are in need.

Well.. on the TV it would look great anyway. But that doesn't mean that everything was alright on the ground. Fans were left frustrated with the inflated hotel prices and restrictions on food and drinks. But what made this world cup a bitter experience for me was the refusal from Qatar to compensate the families of 6,000 plus workers who died during the stadium constructions. While Qatar was showing off its wealth during the tournament, little children of dead workers were going with empty stomach in Nepal and Bangladesh, as they were denied any sort of financial compensation.

I sincerely hope that FIFA would never allow countries like Qatar to host this competition ever again. Those who doesn't know the meaning of humanity and compassion doesn't have the right to stage such global tournaments. They spent close to $300 billion in hosting the world cup. Just 0.1% of this amount would have compensated the families of the poor workers who lost their lives.

I can completely agree with this, the national leagues of Africa and Asia are really organizationally and financially far below the level of European football leagues and the quality of football is low.
However, if you look at the squads of the leading African and Asian teams, you will see that most of their main players actually play in European clubs and leagues and not in the national championships of their countries.
Through the experience of playing in the strongest European leagues, African and Asian players gain important experience, undergo professional training and raise the level of their game and understanding of all aspects of professional football.
This is why it is wrong to say that if football in African and Asian national leagues is bad, that automatically means that their national teams are also bad. Exactly the opposite, and that was brilliantly demonstrated by Morocco at the last world cup in Qatar.

I see. I thought that he was talking about the competition. Unfortunately, each time such an "exotic" country like Qatar (I mean exotic in football world, not in general. I don't wanna offend someone ) hosts the World Cup, it is and will be followed by many controversy. Countries like that don't have large stadiums so they have to build them. And that often comes with shady businesses where rich people get more richer.

As for the quality of the competition and games that are played, I don't think the hosting country or countries have any influence in that.

The whole point of disappointment most people are talking about is not what we saw on TV, people think it was a disappointment because they think Qatar hosted the world cup because of the million dollars the spent, and there there were many workers who died during these years there for building the stadium of the world cup, but this time America countries like USA, Canada, and Mexico will host the world cup and we hope to don't see the same story there.

I bet that was sort of true, like there was an "offer" on the table I am sure, but in the end it would be basically a risk not worth taking. What if they promised to pay you that much, you lost, and they didn't pay? What if they exposed you? Who are you going to complain to? Like are you going to go out and say "they promised us 100 million dollars and we lost but they didn't pay!!" to a judge or something? Of course not.

This is why I believe they didn't take it. In the end, I think USA for example could end up winning, they went out of the group stage, which shows that they are capable of winning, just need a weaker opponent and not some team like brazil or France.

Why do you say that the World Cup held in Qatar was disappointing? I wasn't there so I can't say anything about organization of the competition and how the fans were treated, but on TV it looked pretty OK. There was a lot of surprising results so it was really a good competition. I feel the same with the World Cup that was hosted by Russia five years ago.

It is true and from there many speculations were made, because it began to be said that some sheikhs offered a very large amount of money to the Ecuadorian players, so much money that each player could fix their lives and that of their families, they just had to leave win, however, those same rumors claimed that the players did not accept.

The forceful result of the first World Cup game in Qatar left all that behind, but you are absolutely right, the hosts are those teams that have a lot of quality and it is very difficult to beat them, the truth is that sometimes these types of comments are made because they They are generated on sports channels and there they create debate and arouse some curiosity.

I am a person who always watches every special program of the World Cup and everything that is generated in the host country, and not only the World Cup, every sporting event that refers to fútbol..

I never thought that a FIFA president could be more corrupt and idiotic than Sepp Blatter, but then Infantino came around the corner... The guy is weird, he is just weird and talks nonsense and is ignorant of facts in an unbelievable manner.

I absolutely agree with you that the last two World Cups were disappointing. 2010 South Africa, 2006 Germany and also 2002 South Korea Japan, all of those World Cups were fun to follow and nobody thought it was the wrong decision to give those countries the World Cup. It was a completely different feeling with Russia and Qatar.

In terms of infrastructure the next Cup will be awesome, but I think what most people are concerned about could be security in Mexico. However, since Canada and the US are involved I am 100% sure that they are going to assist Mexico wherever they can and that people will feel safe in Mexico. Those three countries make a great combination of all the good stuff that is needed for an awesome tournament.

In my opinion, the Qatar Cup was the weakest of all the cups I have ever watched, followed by Russia. And I've watched them all since 1994, each cup had its charm and appeal, but the last two were the worst Fifa's choices, most likely based only on power and money.

With the 2026 World Cup, I already foresee that it will be a more enjoyable cup to watch and participate in. Three important countries on the world stage, Canada and the United States being countries with excellent infrastructure, security, and real chances of developing soccer. Mexico I can't talk about the infrastructure because I don't know them personally, but Mexico has a passion for soccer that is very cool, very similar to Brazil and Argentina, and already has stadiums and a very competitive team to play against other countries.

Another thing:




Source: https://ticotimes.net/2023/02/27/infantino-claims-that-the-2026-world-cup-will-facilitate-the-advancement-of-soccer-in-central-america

This is really excting, if the president of Fifa is telling the true, it's good news

Yeah, corruption is a world wide problem. It's everywhere, and it's hard to remove it.

At the end of the day, the economic incentives usually play a big role in huge events like this one.

I hope we see a great tournament. I was a bit concerned about Qatar, but it ended up being a very entertaining world cup. Hopefully we see the same in the next one.

China need experienced players to qualify for the world cup, although china is not a football country that is known to playing football like that but they we need a string team with lots of experienced players for them to get the level of world cup and even qualifying for quarter final. If they keep spending money without workding on player agility and skills, it will take time for them to win up coming games. I could vividly reme6thay it had been long India qualified for world cup because I would like to see them play once again.

Organizing an event like the world cup is very costly so I have always thought that only countries that are very rich or that already have the infrastructure in place should be given the right to host it, now this could seem unfair and in a way it is, but if the world cup is given to a country that has to build everything from scratch and they do not have the money then they will end up accumulating huge debts and spending money in infrastructure they do not need.

It is good that they are going to get more teams in, but that doesn't mean that China and India will get in. I am guessing that the main reason is that they do not have football teams that could qualify, that's the main reason. We have seen those 4 teams that qualify from Asia and how they did, not really that well to be fair, and considering that situation, if qualified ones were not that good, what do you expect from unqualified ones?

It is true that China and India are huge nations in population, but bringing them to world cup to play against Brazil, Germany, France or whoever else they face, so that they would lose by a large margin, would be even worse than not participating.

Yes it is also hard to tell how much corruption still plays a role no matter who is the actual host of the tournament. When construction companies receive contracts from the government, the people losing are the people living in that country and paying taxes. Those who get well paid contracts don't care when afterwards those stadiums are not even used anymore. That is why on the one hand it is good to get poorer countries involved as well because they should not be excluded, but if they lack the infrastructure and have to invest billions into stadiums when their schools would need the money even more, I don't really think that makes a lot of sense. That's not an easy topic to discuss. Canada, Mexico and the US is alright. Even Mexico doesn't have to build their infrastructure from scratch as they have big enough stadiums with up to roughly 80,000 in capacity.