Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 262. (Read 62710 times)

I feel like that could be a good idea if we are talking about a nation with both football culture and also a lot of money, but if they do not have them both then they need to share it. If you bring Canada and USA and Mexico all together, that would still not be one Wembley stadium filled with Englishmen, that's why it is not possible for just picking one nation in that case.

However, they want to have both a bit of change time to time, and also want to have some sort of football culture as well right? Well, aside from Qatar obviously, that was just marketing and nothing more. I believe that we shouldn't be really worried about this three nations acting as one.

I am interested in discussing Canada. yes, since Canada is one of the hosts in the 2026 world cup, they will automatically qualify. if, we are referring to Canada's performance at the Qatar 2022 world cup. to be honest, what the Canadian squad displayed was different from what they had shown in previous tournaments. systemically, Canada is far more highly developed. unfortunately, they don't have a player they can really count on up front.

So, I'm assuming. because Canada is one of the hosts of the World Cup later. the Canadian federation will begin to pay more attention to its football developments. meaning, Canada has the potential to become a stronger team than they showed at the 2026 world cup. because when they seriously make big changes, I'm quite optimistic we will see the impact in the 2026 world cup later.

It is not about being stronger, it is about the idea that the privilege to host a World Cup should engage the hosting nation as much as possible as it is what I said it is: a privilege. This way some fairness can be preserved for as long as the right to host the World Cup isn't won due to corruption. The idea is to carry global sports events into countries all around the world, allowing every continent to participate not only as a sports team, but as a host who gets the possibility to connect with people from all over the world through their hospitality. The main concept behind it is to maintain sports as an element of inclusion among different nations.

you this is the first time FIFA is going to merge two countries together to host the world 6whjch is very surprising to us. You we don't know there intention why this would be happening in time soon but I am just trying to visualize how the mat he's is going to be and then going from Mexico to the United States to watch the live matches.
There is still enough time for FIFA to amend this or adjust thiw but to me it's not going to be easy for us especially that would like to be there live to match most of the matches. We still look forward to the planning team for the next world cup to make the game very interesting.

FIFA cannot deny any host country the automatic qualification rights regardless of their number because they are sacrificing many things as hosts. But World Cup host rights should be restricted to just one nation. Many nations co-hosting the competition reduces the chances of others getting slots. Only countries that can comfortably host the tournament should be given the opportunity to grab the hosting right. Countries that wish to co-host shouldn't be more than two to enable others compete for qualification. The financial and infrastructural development of every nation bidding for the slot should be considered to avoid this co-hosting issues.

Both teams who will auto qualify this time are much stronger than Qatar was as they were the weakest team of the whole tournament during this last World Cup that they hosted.It is a completely different things now,as we saw USA and Mexico to do relatively well in this last tournament,while Canada did not show a great performance compared to other big teams but they surely had improved themselves a lot from the last time I saw them in an international competition like the World Cup is.

So most likely they would have all qualified again even if they were not the hosts as we saw that they did just that in this last World Cup.

As we saw in the previous world cup, the host got qualified for the tournament without playing any games or having any advantage over the other teams, just like we saw in the previous world cup. All I want to say is that the rule should be changed because if we have four teams qualified for the world cup who don't deserve it, there could be other teams that are stronger and they deserve a place in the world cup just as the host did.

You don't get it. Let's take the example of 2030 FIFA World Cup. In case the combined bid from Argentina-Uruguay-Chile-Paraguay gets approved, all of these nations will get automatic qualification to the main tournament. But the problem here is that these 4 slots will be reduced from CONMEBOL qualifiers. So originally 6 teams were supposed to qualify from the CONMEBOL tournament, and it will get reduced to 2. Given the fact that they have some very strong teams such as Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador, qualifying will be extremely difficult for the other teams.

There are going to be 48 teams in fifa 2026 and 3 teams will be from host countries Canada, Mexico,  USA  that's OK I guess and these teams will perform how they performed in last fifa so that's fair I guess and no one will be treated unfairly.
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I never said anything against Qatar auto-qualifying for the 2022 World Cup. It is just one team, and I guess they deserve a slot after spending close to $300 billion for the world cup. But in 2026, the tournament will be hosted by a total of 3 countries. Giving automatic slots to all the three countries will reduce the chances of others in the CONCACAF Confederation. And similarly, 4 for the 2030 World Cup sounds absurd for me. It will reduce the chances of other teams to almost zero. IMO, there should be a playoff between the four teams, and only two among them should automatically qualify.

Absolutely.

There's no way a country that is hosting the world cup won't participate in it. They are putting a lot of money into the tournament so of course they're going to be there.

That was the only way Qatar was able to play at the World Cup actually.

@Sithara007 this was actually a very interesting question and I asked it myself, but a quick google search gave this:

"World Cup: USA, Canada & Mexico will auto-qualify for 2026"

It seems that there have been some discussion about it, but when you give it some deeper consideration any other solution would have been unfair. It has been the rule for so long that the hosting nation is auto-qualified. Now even if it is three countries hosting this World Cup, I 100% agree with the decision to allow all of them to auto-qualify. It is an event that no hosting nation wants to miss and all hosting nations are so eagerly looking forward to.

Imagine what would happen if one of the countries failed in the qualification? I would say that that would be a very sad event and it would also suppress the overall mood among the fans in that country. You want the home fans and the whole hosting nation to be as deeply involved in the tournament as possible. All of that is in support of the enthusiasm and empathy among the guests and the people from the hosting nation.

So yes, all of them are auto-qualified.

It may also negatively influence but knowing how good the Japanese people to solve problems is, I would have expected them to build a lot of football places on the roofs of buildings or indoors, so they can play, practice and fall in love with the game.

It must be something like, the view on football the average Japanese family has. In Latin America, if a child starts practicing football and keeps it until the beginning of their adulthood, it is not frown upon. On the other hand , I have gotten the impression that the Japanese parents expect their children to go for a more orthodox career, like law, medicine, biology, economics...

But that's not right to get for the host teams to get a qualification without playing any matches while all other American teams should race for the qualification where is not any special thing about the team who hosts the world cup, they just invest some money and build stadiums for the games while they will pay back what they invested when the tournament started, but getting qualified is not something they should get without racing like the other teams, not just about this world cup but about all other world cups. 

I don't agree with your argument. Out of the 4 countries mentioned here (Uruguay, Argentina, Chile and Paraguay), only two managed to qualify for the 2022 World Cup. And for the 2030 edition, the 4 slots will be reduced from the quota for CONMEBOL, which means that only two countries (including Brazil) will be able to qualify from CONMEBOL qualifiers. In my opinion, this is very unfair for the other teams such as Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Since Brazil is almost certain to qualify, there is going to be fierce competition for the sole remaining slot.

There’s no cause to worry in this kinda of situation. I think FIFA will look to expand the of the host continent by providing them more slots at the play offs. Although if we look at this four countries they have been the ones that usually qualifies in almost every edition. So having other countries to go through qualification with is exception of one is likely to be more biased than offering them slot.

In my opinion, the host countries should automatically be qualified, without any exceptions, even if there are 4 host countries.
Just an observation, FIFA is reluctant to make the world cup with 4 countries, I don't know if this can be the tie-breaking factor for a possible choice.

If there is a World Cup in a country and this country does not participate, you can imagine that there will not be so much appeal to the inhabitants of that country, disfiguring one of the main purposes of the competition which is to promote soccer in these places. Other things like sponsorship, support and interest would suffer greatly.
So at this point I support automatic qualification yes, after all the country in question has a huge job to do to host a cup, and deserves the spot.

Despite being 4 countries, they are very close to each other in South America, making transportation and logistics much easier, unlike in 2026 where there are 3 countries of continental proportions.

You must also remember that automatic slots are counted and subtracted from the traditional slots of each federation.
In the next World Cup, CONCACAF will have 3 direct and one contested spot.

About this:
I think that the ones who suffer the most from this issue are the qualified teams themselves, since they will not participate in a championship worth qualifying at a high level.
The only thing left to do is to play friendly matches, against weaker teams in general, and this can harm the 4-year project that the teams are doing.

Yeah, well, if 2026 happens and we have 3 countries qualifying plus a load of new countries qualifying, then I don't see why not having 4 countries hosting the next world cup.

I think it's a bit weird, but that's the reality we're facing at the moment.

My prediction is that one country is going to be the main host of the world cup while other countries will just assist them with hosting and that country will be qualified for the world cup in 2026. Otherwise, if indeed four countries host the world cup at the same time, then I guess they will have to get qualifying for the world cup. However, this will not be good because there will be four American teams that will be qualified without racing against other teams.

If 4 countries are co-hosting the tournament, does all of them get automatic qualification? For the 2026 FIFA World Cup, all the three hosts (United States, Canada and Mexico) have been granted automatic entry, which has been criticized by a lot of people. But this will be even more tricky. If they grant automatic entry for a total of 4 teams, then it will reduce the importance of qualifying tournament. IMO, only one host should be given this right, and others should earn their place through participating in the qualifying tournament.