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Qatar hosted world cup and they started from scratch building stadiums setting up everything and after World cup they dismantled some of them and made sports centres to remaining.  Qatar is country who's not developed in terms of football I'm comparison to America Europe who have a developed system . In fifa 2026 many stadiums are already build so they don't have to start from scratch .
Obviously, friends of Qatar can give their best to host the world cup that took place last year because being able to host the world cup is a pride and honor given by FIFA.
In the development of the sport of football, Qatar has indeed lagged behind developments compared to the United States of Europe but Qatar can prove that they are capable and worthy of being able to provide good facilities in the world cup event.

Back to what you said that European America is more advanced in football but it is not certain that in the next world cup they can be a better host than Qatar because Qatar really prepares everything as well as possible.
Qatar itself is willing to spend some money for the construction of stadiums and several other facilities.
The fact is Qatar hosted a memorable world cup and they did everything to cater all the fans and thier accommodation from entire football world , they arranged temporary accommodations for fans during that time and that was affordable. 
2026 world cup is a big question interms of these things i-e how matches will be in America,  Canada and Mexico  and how they'll work for accommodation plus visa policy .
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Qatar hosted world cup and they started from scratch building stadiums setting up everything and after World cup they dismantled some of them and made sports centres to remaining.  Qatar is country who's not developed in terms of football I'm comparison to America Europe who have a developed system . In fifa 2026 many stadiums are already build so they don't have to start from scratch .
Obviously, friends of Qatar can give their best to host the world cup that took place last year because being able to host the world cup is a pride and honor given by FIFA.
In the development of the sport of football, Qatar has indeed lagged behind developments compared to the United States of Europe but Qatar can prove that they are capable and worthy of being able to provide good facilities in the world cup event.

Back to what you said that European America is more advanced in football but it is not certain that in the next world cup they can be a better host than Qatar because Qatar really prepares everything as well as possible.
Qatar itself is willing to spend some money for the construction of stadiums and several other facilities.
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FIFA manages to give us new surprises every World Cup. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has been brilliantly organized, whose reputation still lives on around the world. Hope FIFA will hold the next World Cup with more grandeur. In the next World Cup we will all see a new whole of young players in the team.

I don't know what you are talking about. Qatar 2022 was marred by many controversies and scandals. Tickets were overpriced, LGBT and unmarried couples were discriminated against, and alcoholic beverages were banned at the last minute without prior warning. Qatar just wanted to showoff their petro-wealth, and I guess they managed to do that. I found the 2018 FIFA World Cup much better organized, compared to the 2022 edition. And to be very frank, I would say that 2022 edition was one of the worst ever since I started watching football.

Some people believe the 2022 world cup was well organized but I didn't think the same way, they just spent lots of money to build the stadiums they won't need after the world cup, I mean for a country like Qatar without famous football teams where they hardly get qualified for the world cup building these stadiums was just wasting money but this time in the USA and two other countries there won't be a problem like this.

This upcoming World Cup after a couple of years will be of course better than in Qatar yet Qatar did well to build those stadiums as they have money to throw away and they also showed off in the international arena of their capabilities.The only thing which cannot be forgiven to them is the number of workers that died during the building of such stadiums,they could care less for human life and that is a grave mistake which has gone strangely overlooked by the international community.

I am pretty confident the 2026 World Cup will be much better as the countries hosting them are in a much better shape for hosting such events compared to Qatar which is a small country.

Preparing the world football championship is financially and organizationally very difficult and today it is almost impossible for only one country to do it.
Qatar is one of the richest countries in the world and could have done it, organized the world championship by itself, but for the next world championship, with as many as 48 national teams, as many as 3 countries were needed for the organization.
In the future, it will obviously become a trend and a rule, not an exception, and we already see a lot of other joint bids for the 2030 World Cup, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay as first candidate and Spain and Portugal as second candidates for the organization of the World Cup.
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FIFA manages to give us new surprises every World Cup. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has been brilliantly organized, whose reputation still lives on around the world. Hope FIFA will hold the next World Cup with more grandeur. In the next World Cup we will all see a new whole of young players in the team.

I don't know what you are talking about. Qatar 2022 was marred by many controversies and scandals. Tickets were overpriced, LGBT and unmarried couples were discriminated against, and alcoholic beverages were banned at the last minute without prior warning. Qatar just wanted to showoff their petro-wealth, and I guess they managed to do that. I found the 2018 FIFA World Cup much better organized, compared to the 2022 edition. And to be very frank, I would say that 2022 edition was one of the worst ever since I started watching football.

Some people believe the 2022 world cup was well organized but I didn't think the same way, they just spent lots of money to build the stadiums they won't need after the world cup, I mean for a country like Qatar without famous football teams where they hardly get qualified for the world cup building these stadiums was just wasting money but this time in the USA and two other countries there won't be a problem like this.

This upcoming World Cup after a couple of years will be of course better than in Qatar yet Qatar did well to build those stadiums as they have money to throw away and they also showed off in the international arena of their capabilities.The only thing which cannot be forgiven to them is the number of workers that died during the building of such stadiums,they could care less for human life and that is a grave mistake which has gone strangely overlooked by the international community.

I am pretty confident the 2026 World Cup will be much better as the countries hosting them are in a much better shape for hosting such events compared to Qatar which is a small country.
Qatar hosted world cup and they started from scratch building stadiums setting up everything and after World cup they dismantled some of them and made sports centres to remaining.  Qatar is country who's not developed in terms of football I'm comparison to America Europe who have a developed system . In fifa 2026 many stadiums are already build so they don't have to start from scratch .
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FIFA manages to give us new surprises every World Cup. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has been brilliantly organized, whose reputation still lives on around the world. Hope FIFA will hold the next World Cup with more grandeur. In the next World Cup we will all see a new whole of young players in the team.

I don't know what you are talking about. Qatar 2022 was marred by many controversies and scandals. Tickets were overpriced, LGBT and unmarried couples were discriminated against, and alcoholic beverages were banned at the last minute without prior warning. Qatar just wanted to showoff their petro-wealth, and I guess they managed to do that. I found the 2018 FIFA World Cup much better organized, compared to the 2022 edition. And to be very frank, I would say that 2022 edition was one of the worst ever since I started watching football.

Some people believe the 2022 world cup was well organized but I didn't think the same way, they just spent lots of money to build the stadiums they won't need after the world cup, I mean for a country like Qatar without famous football teams where they hardly get qualified for the world cup building these stadiums was just wasting money but this time in the USA and two other countries there won't be a problem like this.

This upcoming World Cup after a couple of years will be of course better than in Qatar yet Qatar did well to build those stadiums as they have money to throw away and they also showed off in the international arena of their capabilities.The only thing which cannot be forgiven to them is the number of workers that died during the building of such stadiums,they could care less for human life and that is a grave mistake which has gone strangely overlooked by the international community.

I am pretty confident the 2026 World Cup will be much better as the countries hosting them are in a much better shape for hosting such events compared to Qatar which is a small country.
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FIFA manages to give us new surprises every World Cup. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has been brilliantly organized, whose reputation still lives on around the world. Hope FIFA will hold the next World Cup with more grandeur. In the next World Cup we will all see a new whole of young players in the team.

I don't know what you are talking about. Qatar 2022 was marred by many controversies and scandals. Tickets were overpriced, LGBT and unmarried couples were discriminated against, and alcoholic beverages were banned at the last minute without prior warning. Qatar just wanted to showoff their petro-wealth, and I guess they managed to do that. I found the 2018 FIFA World Cup much better organized, compared to the 2022 edition. And to be very frank, I would say that 2022 edition was one of the worst ever since I started watching football.

Some people believe the 2022 world cup was well organized but I didn't think the same way, they just spent lots of money to build the stadiums they won't need after the world cup, I mean for a country like Qatar without famous football teams where they hardly get qualified for the world cup building these stadiums was just wasting money but this time in the USA and two other countries there won't be a problem like this.
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FIFA manages to give us new surprises every World Cup. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has been brilliantly organized, whose reputation still lives on around the world. Hope FIFA will hold the next World Cup with more grandeur. In the next World Cup we will all see a new whole of young players in the team.

I don't know what you are talking about. Qatar 2022 was marred by many controversies and scandals. Tickets were overpriced, LGBT and unmarried couples were discriminated against, and alcoholic beverages were banned at the last minute without prior warning. Qatar just wanted to showoff their petro-wealth, and I guess they managed to do that. I found the 2018 FIFA World Cup much better organized, compared to the 2022 edition. And to be very frank, I would say that 2022 edition was one of the worst ever since I started watching football.
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I predict that in the future we will see world cups with even more participants and that these competitions will be held more often, probably every 2 years.  Grin
FIFA really knows how to get income and every tournament they hold instead of adding tournaments, increasing the number of participants will also be just as profitable and maybe what you think will also be implemented by FIFA because they are not satisfied with every money they get from this tournament, so carry it out every 2 years, but the question is whether 2 years will be enough for countries that have never hosted the World Cup to prepare the supporting infrastructure for holding it because there will definitely be more stadiums that must be provided due to the greater number of participants so only countries who have huge funds that are able to organize it or this will be a tournament held by several countries.

FIFA also needs to have enough as an organization and tournaments like the world cup can be good options for them also since they accepted multiple countries hosting the world cup and there will be more countries in the world cup in 2026, they aim to increase the community of the world cup. Increasing the community will give more income to FIFA and maybe that's the main reason for them to make these decisions for 2026.

The FIFA is actually a registered non-profit organization, but that is where all the issues arise from. They say that they are investing the money back into soccer development around the world, but you can still make shady deals or contractual setups where certain individuals or organizations with close ties to the FIFA eventually profit from. There have been tons of investigation into the expenses and investments that the FIFA makes, but when they say that they invest in the development of soccer, that can almost mean anything. If they funnel money to a company that is supposed to contribute to soccer development, you might get an idea of how the FIFA can use their money in shady ways.

Of course, that has always existed, in fact one of the things where I see that they can manipulate is within the same football match, it is said that when the referee sentences an action, the VAR does not take action, it only enters when ek The referee is insecure, so this is a clear sign that not even technology is capable of curbing corruption, the efforts that are made in favor of good football are sometimes clouded by the hand of man to do evil, I have Seen in certain fútbol matches, sentences where reality does not add up, and since the VAR reserves the right to show its analysis, it is an endorsement for them to continue in the same way.
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I guess so because I'm sure that Canada and Mexico won't be sitting quietly while they are just being handed with 10 games each while the USA will be hosting the remaining games which gives them more profits to their economy and business establishments near the venues. It's quite unfair to think that USA will be hosting 84 games if that's indeed the case.

To answer that question, Canada and Mexico aren't subsidiary hosts. They're co-hosts of USA this coming 2026, hence why their national teams did automatically got the advantage of being qualified directly. These 3 countries won the bid together, just like what happened in 2002 World Cup where Japan and South Korea hosted it together.

Well.. this is a difficult topic. I know that formally both Canada and Mexico are the co-hosts. At least on paper, they have the same rights as that of the United States. But at the same time, most of the matches are being staged in the United States and they are taking care of most of the expenses. So we can't say that in this case the status of the US is the same as that of the other two countries. However, I am not sure about the revenue distribution. IMO, revenues (apart from ticket sales) may be split equally between the three countries.

Since this is the first time the world cup has been hosted by three different countries, I guess FIFA should have come up with some new rules regarding how they are going to host this tournament, since this is the first time this has happened. Although these three nations do not have the same situation, there is no doubt that each country would like to host more matches because it will bring in more benefits, but I don't think it would be a good idea if one country hosted the main matches and other countries hosted fewer.

Folks, we're still in the year of 203, World Cup will commence somewhere in 2026 so that gives them a lot of time to prepare whatever is needed to make this world cup much better than the previous one which happened in Qatar. And since they still got three more years to prepare, let's expect that there will be some movement as the time passes by and maybe the list of matches and its venues will be updated officially in 2026. A lot will happen because the FIFA now have a new format where teams has been added as well as the games.

Still, three years left for the world cup, and curing this time there can be many possibilities for hosts and for the teams participating in the world cup but I think the teams are getting themselves ready for the world cup even from this time I mean any team should have a long-term plan to get itself ready if they really want to achieve something the world cup and there is the same situation for the host and they're getting ready even from this time to have the best quality they can provide.
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I guess so because I'm sure that Canada and Mexico won't be sitting quietly while they are just being handed with 10 games each while the USA will be hosting the remaining games which gives them more profits to their economy and business establishments near the venues. It's quite unfair to think that USA will be hosting 84 games if that's indeed the case.

To answer that question, Canada and Mexico aren't subsidiary hosts. They're co-hosts of USA this coming 2026, hence why their national teams did automatically got the advantage of being qualified directly. These 3 countries won the bid together, just like what happened in 2002 World Cup where Japan and South Korea hosted it together.

Well.. this is a difficult topic. I know that formally both Canada and Mexico are the co-hosts. At least on paper, they have the same rights as that of the United States. But at the same time, most of the matches are being staged in the United States and they are taking care of most of the expenses. So we can't say that in this case the status of the US is the same as that of the other two countries. However, I am not sure about the revenue distribution. IMO, revenues (apart from ticket sales) may be split equally between the three countries.

Since this is the first time the world cup has been hosted by three different countries, I guess FIFA should have come up with some new rules regarding how they are going to host this tournament, since this is the first time this has happened. Although these three nations do not have the same situation, there is no doubt that each country would like to host more matches because it will bring in more benefits, but I don't think it would be a good idea if one country hosted the main matches and other countries hosted fewer.

Folks, we're still in the year of 203, World Cup will commence somewhere in 2026 so that gives them a lot of time to prepare whatever is needed to make this world cup much better than the previous one which happened in Qatar. And since they still got three more years to prepare, let's expect that there will be some movement as the time passes by and maybe the list of matches and its venues will be updated officially in 2026. A lot will happen because the FIFA now have a new format where teams has been added as well as the games.
FIFA manages to give us new surprises every World Cup. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar has been brilliantly organized, whose reputation still lives on around the world. Hope FIFA will hold the next World Cup with more grandeur. In the next World Cup we will all see a new whole of young players in the team.
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I guess so because I'm sure that Canada and Mexico won't be sitting quietly while they are just being handed with 10 games each while the USA will be hosting the remaining games which gives them more profits to their economy and business establishments near the venues. It's quite unfair to think that USA will be hosting 84 games if that's indeed the case.

To answer that question, Canada and Mexico aren't subsidiary hosts. They're co-hosts of USA this coming 2026, hence why their national teams did automatically got the advantage of being qualified directly. These 3 countries won the bid together, just like what happened in 2002 World Cup where Japan and South Korea hosted it together.

Well.. this is a difficult topic. I know that formally both Canada and Mexico are the co-hosts. At least on paper, they have the same rights as that of the United States. But at the same time, most of the matches are being staged in the United States and they are taking care of most of the expenses. So we can't say that in this case the status of the US is the same as that of the other two countries. However, I am not sure about the revenue distribution. IMO, revenues (apart from ticket sales) may be split equally between the three countries.

Since this is the first time the world cup has been hosted by three different countries, I guess FIFA should have come up with some new rules regarding how they are going to host this tournament, since this is the first time this has happened. Although these three nations do not have the same situation, there is no doubt that each country would like to host more matches because it will bring in more benefits, but I don't think it would be a good idea if one country hosted the main matches and other countries hosted fewer.

Folks, we're still in the year of 203, World Cup will commence somewhere in 2026 so that gives them a lot of time to prepare whatever is needed to make this world cup much better than the previous one which happened in Qatar. And since they still got three more years to prepare, let's expect that there will be some movement as the time passes by and maybe the list of matches and its venues will be updated officially in 2026. A lot will happen because the FIFA now have a new format where teams has been added as well as the games.
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I guess so because I'm sure that Canada and Mexico won't be sitting quietly while they are just being handed with 10 games each while the USA will be hosting the remaining games which gives them more profits to their economy and business establishments near the venues. It's quite unfair to think that USA will be hosting 84 games if that's indeed the case.

To answer that question, Canada and Mexico aren't subsidiary hosts. They're co-hosts of USA this coming 2026, hence why their national teams did automatically got the advantage of being qualified directly. These 3 countries won the bid together, just like what happened in 2002 World Cup where Japan and South Korea hosted it together.

Well.. this is a difficult topic. I know that formally both Canada and Mexico are the co-hosts. At least on paper, they have the same rights as that of the United States. But at the same time, most of the matches are being staged in the United States and they are taking care of most of the expenses. So we can't say that in this case the status of the US is the same as that of the other two countries. However, I am not sure about the revenue distribution. IMO, revenues (apart from ticket sales) may be split equally between the three countries.
I suppose all of those topics should have been talked about before the world cup by the representatives of the three countries, after all winning the bid for the world cup would have been way more difficult for each individual country and by uniting they were able to create an irresistible bid as each country has something different to offer, for Canada this is the first opportunity to host a world cup, the US offers a growing market as soccer is slowly getting more popular there and by taking the world cup there FIFA hopes soccer becomes even more popular, and Mexico offers seniority by becoming the first country to host the world cup three times.
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I guess so because I'm sure that Canada and Mexico won't be sitting quietly while they are just being handed with 10 games each while the USA will be hosting the remaining games which gives them more profits to their economy and business establishments near the venues. It's quite unfair to think that USA will be hosting 84 games if that's indeed the case.

To answer that question, Canada and Mexico aren't subsidiary hosts. They're co-hosts of USA this coming 2026, hence why their national teams did automatically got the advantage of being qualified directly. These 3 countries won the bid together, just like what happened in 2002 World Cup where Japan and South Korea hosted it together.

Well.. this is a difficult topic. I know that formally both Canada and Mexico are the co-hosts. At least on paper, they have the same rights as that of the United States. But at the same time, most of the matches are being staged in the United States and they are taking care of most of the expenses. So we can't say that in this case the status of the US is the same as that of the other two countries. However, I am not sure about the revenue distribution. IMO, revenues (apart from ticket sales) may be split equally between the three countries.

Since this is the first time the world cup has been hosted by three different countries, I guess FIFA should have come up with some new rules regarding how they are going to host this tournament, since this is the first time this has happened. Although these three nations do not have the same situation, there is no doubt that each country would like to host more matches because it will bring in more benefits, but I don't think it would be a good idea if one country hosted the main matches and other countries hosted fewer.
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I guess so because I'm sure that Canada and Mexico won't be sitting quietly while they are just being handed with 10 games each while the USA will be hosting the remaining games which gives them more profits to their economy and business establishments near the venues. It's quite unfair to think that USA will be hosting 84 games if that's indeed the case.

To answer that question, Canada and Mexico aren't subsidiary hosts. They're co-hosts of USA this coming 2026, hence why their national teams did automatically got the advantage of being qualified directly. These 3 countries won the bid together, just like what happened in 2002 World Cup where Japan and South Korea hosted it together.

Well.. this is a difficult topic. I know that formally both Canada and Mexico are the co-hosts. At least on paper, they have the same rights as that of the United States. But at the same time, most of the matches are being staged in the United States and they are taking care of most of the expenses. So we can't say that in this case the status of the US is the same as that of the other two countries. However, I am not sure about the revenue distribution. IMO, revenues (apart from ticket sales) may be split equally between the three countries.
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The fact is that African and Asian football has progressed significantly in recent years, which can be seen in the examples of the success of South Korea in 2002 and Morocco last year
Japan and South Korea are teams in Asia that have experienced a lot of progress, especially Japan, not because they were able to beat Germany but being able to qualify for the knockout rounds is an achievement and Iran also a power team from Asia, this is quite surprising because the country's conditions are not so conducive, but the national team can still play in the World Cup.
Saudi Arabia is working hard to develop their league but not sure if it will directly impact their national team because as far as I can see the development only affects the popularity of their league. With the increase in the number of participants, Asia will also get an addition but I'm not sure that there will be a new team that will impress because Europe and America have always been the best in the World Cup.

In due time, those national teams that were added in this upcoming World Cup will be a threat to the heavy teams that exists right now. For now, a lot of them are still developing their teams while acquiring some experience by participating in the upcoming World Cup. Just a little steps and maybe soon, who knows, maybe Asia will also be included into the discussions as they can manage to develop a strong team that will be on par with the top teams we have.
Generally speaking, alot of teams are doing all their best to improve their world football team, sports has proven to be a medium through which the world comes together in love and harmony, countries, most especially the smaller ones, who never regarded sports(football in particular) as anything important are not seeing its importance and have begun to pay attention to their team..

On the above note, I dare to say that 2026 fifa world cup tournament will be a new beginning in the world of football, it the beginning of power shifting, where most teams that have stood as the best for as long as they have been, will be demoted and ran over, by much more younger and more vibrant players.

You are right, world cup is the most important event in the world for many countries that's where they can show their performance to other teams and that's a good chance for players to show their performance and have good offers from other teams that's why whenever a team enters the world cup they will try to send their team in the best shape.
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The fact is that African and Asian football has progressed significantly in recent years, which can be seen in the examples of the success of South Korea in 2002 and Morocco last year
Japan and South Korea are teams in Asia that have experienced a lot of progress, especially Japan, not because they were able to beat Germany but being able to qualify for the knockout rounds is an achievement and Iran also a power team from Asia, this is quite surprising because the country's conditions are not so conducive, but the national team can still play in the World Cup.
Saudi Arabia is working hard to develop their league but not sure if it will directly impact their national team because as far as I can see the development only affects the popularity of their league. With the increase in the number of participants, Asia will also get an addition but I'm not sure that there will be a new team that will impress because Europe and America have always been the best in the World Cup.

In due time, those national teams that were added in this upcoming World Cup will be a threat to the heavy teams that exists right now. For now, a lot of them are still developing their teams while acquiring some experience by participating in the upcoming World Cup. Just a little steps and maybe soon, who knows, maybe Asia will also be included into the discussions as they can manage to develop a strong team that will be on par with the top teams we have.
Generally speaking, alot of teams are doing all their best to improve their world football team, sports has proven to be a medium through which the world comes together in love and harmony, countries, most especially the smaller ones, who never regarded sports(football in particular) as anything important are not seeing its importance and have begun to pay attention to their team..

On the above note, I dare to say that 2026 fifa world cup tournament will be a new beginning in the world of football, it the beginning of power shifting, where most teams that have stood as the best for as long as they have been, will be demoted and ran over, by much more younger and more vibrant players.
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And Canada and Mexico will host a total of 20 games, right? Or are there any changes?

From what I know, Canada and Mexico will host 10 games each and the rest will be held in US soil. That is quite less because in this new format where 48 teams will play, there will be a total of 100+ games. I mean, it should be maximized because they also have a large stadium to host some of the games and it will be a big help to the host cities to boost their businesses.

As far as I know, this 10-match figure was decided earlier, when FIFA was thinking about a 3 team per group format. But then they changed the format to 4-team groups and therefore the total number of matches almost doubled to 104. So I guess both Canada and Mexico will get more matches to be staged within their borders. But I have a question here. If USA is hosting more than 70% of the matches, then why Canada and Mexico are being allotted automatic qualification to the 2026 World Cup? They are not co-hosts. They are just subsidiary hosts.

I guess so because I'm sure that Canada and Mexico won't be sitting quietly while they are just being handed with 10 games each while the USA will be hosting the remaining games which gives them more profits to their economy and business establishments near the venues. It's quite unfair to think that USA will be hosting 84 games if that's indeed the case.

To answer that question, Canada and Mexico aren't subsidiary hosts. They're co-hosts of USA this coming 2026, hence why their national teams did automatically got the advantage of being qualified directly. These 3 countries won the bid together, just like what happened in 2002 World Cup where Japan and South Korea hosted it together.
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The fact is that African and Asian football has progressed significantly in recent years, which can be seen in the examples of the success of South Korea in 2002 and Morocco last year
Japan and South Korea are teams in Asia that have experienced a lot of progress, especially Japan, not because they were able to beat Germany but being able to qualify for the knockout rounds is an achievement and Iran also a power team from Asia, this is quite surprising because the country's conditions are not so conducive, but the national team can still play in the World Cup.
Saudi Arabia is working hard to develop their league but not sure if it will directly impact their national team because as far as I can see the development only affects the popularity of their league. With the increase in the number of participants, Asia will also get an addition but I'm not sure that there will be a new team that will impress because Europe and America have always been the best in the World Cup.

In due time, those national teams that were added in this upcoming World Cup will be a threat to the heavy teams that exists right now. For now, a lot of them are still developing their teams while acquiring some experience by participating in the upcoming World Cup. Just a little steps and maybe soon, who knows, maybe Asia will also be included into the discussions as they can manage to develop a strong team that will be on par with the top teams we have.
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I think if they want to increase the slots for this world cup they need to increase the Eorioan team's numbers more than other teams because, in any world cup, we see there are many European top teams that can't get qualified because there are not enough slots for them which can be a reason to say the increasing number of European teams can even increase the quality of the world cup.
I think there is already enough advantage, just keep it increasing like that would be fine. As long as we have more teams, I am pretty sure lower level European teams will not make a big impact, it would be cool to see more teams period, don't matter where they come from.

Sure if you make it European then you are going to get a lot better teams, but we already have good teams at the top, the aim is not to get just good teams, we have enough of that, there are only a few teams who end up winning most of the time anyway, getting Estonia or Slovenia will not change that at all. The point is to get more nations, meaning more population, meaning more money. That happens when you are global and not just one continent.
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I agree.

Just by increasing slots to African and Asian countries it won't miraculously make them better.

We saw that with Qatar, every game they played it was painfully obvious that they were not at the required level to be there.

I guess this will become a bit more common in the next world cup, where more countries will qualify that don't really have the level we are used to see in the world cup.

It is not like additional slots are being given to Asian and African teams, not to improve their quality. This is a big misunderstanding. Additional slots are being given to them, because already there is an improvement in their quality. The previous allocation was based on the strength of teams half a century back, when Asian and African teams were quite weak. That is the reason why AFC/CAF were allotted so few slots compared to UEFA, for the 2022 Qatar edition. That mistake will be rectified for the 2026 edition.

Agreed, after all even though at this moment they still don't look any better, but over time they will improve and it is very possible that in the future African and Asian teams can compete even better in the world cup. Also, with this additional slot, wouldn't that be a great opportunity for the better teams to be able to get easy points for certain matches.

So yeah, I think there's nothing wrong with adding a slot like this, because at this moment Asian countries have also developed a lot and even though their football still can't compete further but at least, by being the host then that too will increase their income as well.
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