Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 249. (Read 62712 times)

The 2026 World Cup is scheduled to be held in a total of 16 stadiums (compared to 8 during Qatar 2022). And none of these 16 stadiums are entirely new. All of them are well established facilities and some have been in use for many decades. For example, the Estadio Azteca is having a capacity of close to 90,000 and it was build in 1966 (however, the stadium underwent extensive renovations in 1986, 1999, 2013 and 2016). And before the 2026 world cup as well, we can expect another round of comprehensive renovations.

I don't have information about Mexico too, but I think in USA and Canada both have enough good quality stadiums to host the world cup so they won't need to spend lots of money for the world cup that's how it can have more benefits for these three countries comparing to Qatar but even if they want to build or repair stadiums in Canada I'm sure there is a rule to protect the workers even if they come to form other countries so we won't see the drama like Qatar.

I still can't believe that it happened, that's the weird part. And not like anyone is visiting Qatar or think highly of them because of the world cup neither. They overspent for it, and they are not going to get anything back from it neither, it is not going to be good at all. I feel like it is going to be something that they will regret for a long time.

In fact, I am pretty sure that they had more bad light on them because of the world cup than good, and they will be hated a long time because they basically stole the world cup from these teams in the end. I think a smaller balkan nation would have been even better, hotels, stadiums, all of that is ready in most those nations.

Honestly, FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 most amazing and there are not any problem yet when first until last games and seems last World Cup edition have been success, issues about many worker die is not true and Qatar become most amazing host with single host they can manage well with amazing stadium.

For FIFA World Cup 2026 I don't see have any great stadium looking on MLS League many team playing with bad stadium and used for the other sport, I doubt with United State, Mexico and Canada will be host better than Qatar with good stadium and all player never complaint about what facilities getting when Qatar became the host of World Cup 2022.

I don't know much about Mexico, but both the United States and Canada have strict labor laws, which protects the rights of laborers. And I mentioned this before. There are a huge number of sports stadiums in these countries, and at the most they need to be renovated/refitted (but converting NFL stadiums to football is going to take a lot of time and effort). But what worries me is the worsening economic situation in the United States. The inflation is already touching double digits and a number of companies are laying off the workers. If something really bad happens, then the world cup may get impacted.

If we're completely honest, I thoroughly enjoyed the 2022 World Cup. The football was great, and it was really fun and interesting, all the way into the final.

There were less issues than I expected outside the pitch.

At the end of the day, as Maradona said: "La pelota no se mancha" (The ball doesn't get stained, in reference to bad things happening outside the field)

To be honest Qatar World Cup was a bad experience in letting a rich country without stadiums host the world cup. They spend lots of money and invested to earn more from it but still, many workers died and many people were unhappy there because of their hosting, however, I guess this time the countries where they host the world cup will not have the same problems as Qatar in 2022.

Just like that, as the old saying goes, "show must go on" 
Who remembers that the 1978 World Cup was held during a brutal dictatorial regime in Argentina, during which many innocent people were imprisoned and tortured or even lost their lives?
Who cares anymore about corruption and bribery of FIFA members to vote for the decision to hold the 2018 and 2022 World Cups in Russia and Qatar?
In the whole story, only profit is important, and the words "human rights" and "honesty" no longer exist in the FIFA offices.
Ordinary fans have no influence on FIFA policy and can only accept the current state of affairs.

@alegotardo it’s starting to seem like Qatar doesn’t care much about this issue, because I thought that they would provide heavy compensation and make it right. @Sithara007 labourers conditions are much better in those countries hosting the World Cup in 2026, hence we definitely won’t see a repeat of the 2022 World Cup but I yet expect a new controversy to come up as we move towards the 2026 World Cup.

To be honest, I think no one will remember those issues in the future.

Many issues have happened in previous editions of the world cup, and the world just keeps going.

I'm not saying it's a good thing, but that's just how it seems the world works.

The 2022 World Cup will always remain as a dark spot in the history of FIFA. Qatar, despite splashing $300 billion to showoff their wealth, refused to compensate the 6,000+ migrant workers who died during the construction of the stadiums. And FIFA also didn't uttered a word about this issue. Children of these migrant workers are still starving to death in Nepal and Bangladesh, while FIFA is making big projections of $11 billion revenue for the next edition of the world cup. I agree with the point that there are enough large stadiums in all the three countries who are the hosts. But extensive renovations maybe required, to modify them as per FIFA standards.

Yes, the 16 stadiums that the teams will use during the world cup games are already ready, nothing will need to be built from scratch, just some reforms, improvements and expansions will be necessary.
Why that? Because these three countries actually play football outside the world cup.
Qatar, on the other hand, never had a Football tradition, they should never have hosted a FIFA World Cup, all they have is money to rub on the world and buy whatever they want, including the lives of workers that were lost for there just to satisfy the greed of rich people.

I hope that in the 2026 World Cup, human values will be more valued, above any money the world can buy.

Not only they "paid" people a lot of money to build their stadiums, they paid about 200 billion to make that happen and the stadiums were less than 10 billion dollars of that. They had to literally build a whole nation all over again, from hospitals to roads to airports to hotels to many other things. When you end up spending that much, it's good for the nation to be fair after everyone else leaves, because regular citizens will use it, but it also questions why not done beforehand if it can be done?

Secondly, tens of thousands of workers died there, even the best estimate shows it around a few thousand. Because they just throw money there and hired more workers when some of them died, instead of making it safe to work.

The financial power can develop the ground more better then a normal economy country of this three countries.Even though Mexico in the list United States and Canada had enough stadiums to conduct the World Cup 2026.In the Qatar World Cup,they hard to build the stadium because of less number of stadium in their.The most important thing of Qatar is they had enough money to build anything for the FIFA World Cup.Not only Qatar conducts the FIFA,they also became a best team and win many good competitions in the FIFA World Cup.

Qatar enter the game with 50th position and leave the league with 32 nd position is the surprise to most of the team.Before entry,Qatar only top the Ghana and Saudi Arabia on the lowest rank list.This is not the easy one,because the Qatar had improved over 28 ranks by participating in the World Cup FIFA and luckily it was host by Qatar itself.

And we must not forget Mexico either, they may not have the financial power of the other two countries but soccer is way more popular there and they have several stadiums around the country, and instead of building new ones they will just renovate the ones they already have, so when I consider all the factors I really think the next world cup from an organizational point of view will be better than the one we had at Qatar.

Qatar had many problems before the world cup, they had lack of stadiums and they didn't have enough workers in their country to build stadiums for the world cup while all they had was money and nothing else, and that is why they had to spend lots of money to hire workers from other countries and build stadiums for the world cup which was a bad experience, but this time we know in USA and Canada where are enough stadiums and that's why they won't need to spend money for building new stadiums.

Regarding the point 1., I think the idea of hosting World Cups or global sports events in general in geographic areas where different religions, beliefs and cultures prevail, the hope is that the event itself has some positive influence in terms of spreading liberality, democracy, freedom of speech and sexual orientation and more, as a spillover effect. People from more liberal, democratic countries visit these events and that could lead to the people and the government to reconsider their current form of life when it comes to restricting minority groups or even entire groups like women in general.

It has often been seen though that these events have no effect at all. It's wishful thinking.

- World Cup in Russia in 2018...

- Olympic Games Beijing in 2022...

- World Cup in Qatar 2022...

None of these events entailed any positive effects in my opinion. Even worse, Russia started a war, China isn't judging it but instead expands its business relations with Russia, and Qatar isn't even in the news anymore.

Qatar didn't bribed the FIFA officials directly. What they did is that they bribed the representatives from poor third world countries, so that they get enough votes to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. But then, FIFA was complacent in several ways. First of all, they never took any action against Qatar when the bribery allegations came to spotlight. And then they never uttered a word when Qatar refused to compensate dead migrant workers, who lost their lives during the construction of stadiums. And finally, they had no problem when Qatar was actively discriminating LGBT people and unmarried couples during the 2022 edition.

in my opinion fifa had to put criteria as a basis for any country that wants to organize the world cup things like:

1 - The country that wants to organize the world cup must be a country in which it is aware that people who are going to watch the world cup games will have the right to dress and behave as they behave in their countries as long as they do not commit crimes like stealing and killing. so if an Arab country or any country that has a religion as its laws will no longer organize the world cup and impose its laws of religion on others, this is unacceptable, I think that FIFA should have been ashamed of itself for the unpleasant things that were seen in the last world cup

2 - the country must have at least a low crime rate, be a country with good security, which is not involved in the invasion of other countries, sponsorship of mercenaries and terrorists, have hotel instances that were not built with money from drug trafficking drugs, being a democratic country

3 - being a country that has a good soccer record at all levels, honestly seeing countries that their main teams don't even make it to the final stages to organize the world cup is not something that gives credibility to the world cup in my opinion.

these criteria that I mentioned if fifa were to implement it would make all countries motivate themselves first to have good soccer teams in their country and then think about applying to organize the world cup, currently the fifa criteria are directed to money , the country with the most money, luxury hotels are fifa's favorites

Have one weakness side with three countries held FIFA World Cup 2026 because less two participants with three host will automatically get slot without have qualify stage. But its realistic with 48 national team added and need three countries become host in the World Cup. I am not sure with next FIFA World Cup keep compete or not because many participants added and reduce how qualities each national team.

I am not sure about how format group and how many team will qualify to next stage based on 48 participants, usually last World Cup format with 32 national team held on 8 group stage, the winner and runner up will qualify to 16th round but with added participants I don't think what format adopted by FIFA and how many team each group.