Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 273. (Read 57962 times)

Participation into the FIFA World Cup is a big achievement for every nation. The 50% increase in the number of countries give opportunity for more football loving nations. Maybe it will be difficult task for the FIFA organisation, but it brings in more audience as well as big revenue than the previous editions. We don't know how the grouping to be done, but now itself the expectations on different countries have started growing.

The addition of the number of countries by 50% from before made FIFA have to make a lot of adjustments and there are several options that FIFA is currently considering, one of which is by dividing into 16 groups and each group consisting of 3 countries, but there is no certainty regarding all options, all are still under consideration but for sure the group phase will be the busiest times for the hosts

Compared to the 2022 edition, the matches per team will increase by 1. Because back in 2022, we had the round of 16 after the group stage. And this time we will have the round of 32 after the first phase. One consequence of this is that there are greater chances of upsets and some of the top teams may get kicked out of the tournament mid-way (similar to what happened with Brazil when they lost to Croatia in the Quarter-finals). But IMO, it will make the tournament more exciting. There is no room for error, and teams such as Argentina and France need to be extra cautious this time.

FIFA is still thinking about this, right now it seems they will go with 12 groups of four teams each, so at least the number of games each team will have to play during this phase will remain the same, if despite the increase in the number of participants only 16 teams make it to the next round then those getting to the final will still only play 7 games each and a straight comparison among records will still be possible, but if FIFA adds a round of 32 then this will not be possible anymore as now the teams making it to the final will play 8 games instead.

Given that there will be more teams in the World Cup 2026, I wonder if there will be more matches played per team.

I mean, of course there will be more matches in general, because there will be more teams to play, but the structure could be designed so that the total matches per team is kept the same as today.

This is because all the records from previous world cups would be a bit meaningless with more matches. For example, number of goals scored in a world cup, etc.

fifa has become an organization of mercenaries who only care about money, there is a big difference between the news and data that governments put on the internet and the people who live in these places and witness all these horrors. I will give a good example from my country, for example, in my country there is a province that has a terrorist group that wants to control the sale and distribution of drugs, weapons and religion, these criminals have been waging war for over 4 years, and not even even with military intervention by many countries, the war did not end. going back to the basics let's see that the data from the internet and tv channels are data provided by the government of mexico, obviously this is data manipulated in favor of the government

But the central point I want to make is that the terrorists in my country, who are in Afghanistan... there is a difference with these criminals in Mexico, the criminals in Mexico, they will not be afraid to carry out a major attack in a city that is taking place. world cup games, this is because they want attention and spread terror so that the government is hostage to them and gives in to their demand, the criminal in mexico can bribe people, this is a great advantage they have. My country's terrorists are proud, they focus on combating the land they occupied, a telephone thief who kills a person is not on the same level with criminals in Mexico who want to control drug trafficking

let's look at brazil, in brazil's police and military there is little room for drug traffickers to bribe them, and in brazil's government there is not much room for them to accept bribes from drug traffickers, but the same cannot be said about mexico


Sinaloa cartel launches violent response as Mexico recaptures El Chapo’s son



these criminals in mexico are capable of burning a soccer field with people watching the world cup, i don't doubt that

@Slow death I believe that the authorities will do proper research, and will seek reassurances from Mexico’s government that they can organise the World Cup without any issue’s. Furthermore while it does looks risky to organise the World Cup there based on these stats, but I agree with @slapper that Mexico government will not want to ruin their image hence I have a feeling that the authorities may be tempted to give them the permission to host it.

A large share of the murders in Mexico result from the ongoing drug war, which mostly occurs along the US-Mexico border. After peaking a decade or so ago, the drug cartels are now in a disorganized state and their activity is greatly reduced. And this has a lot to do with the military aid that the United States has offered to Mexican government. But even if they are still powerful, I don't believe that the drug cartels are foolish enough to attack football fans during the world cup. In case they do so, then they will attract unwanted attention and end up brining foreign military intervention to Mexico.

Here is the 2021 murder dates by state for Mexico:

Yeah, on average the US is safer than Mexico, but it depends on which specific city you're looking at.

For example, St. Louis, Baltimore, and San Juan in the US have more than 50 homicides per 100k people. Source: https://usabynumbers.com/cities-with-highest-murder-rate/

On the other hand:


So it really depends on the actual city you're comparing, not the average of a huge country.

No mate, AT&T Stadium isn't even on America's Top 10 list of Biggest Stadium because the one you've mentioned only have a capacity to hold 80,000. Their biggest was the Michigan Stadium that can hold as much as 107,600 people and that's what is really insane! But anyway, as I said above, the FIFA council will release more details soon and I'm also sure that AT&T is one of the stadiums that will host one of the 60 games in the next FIFA World Cup, and I agree with you, it's still best to see it in television rather than seeing it live to be safer.

The reason why I checked the murder rates in countries hosting the next World Cup was because I had a feeling that the number of murders in USA is not bigger than in Mexico. It turns out I was wrong but it could be that my gut had me believe the numbers are similar because of what you say. The murders in USA are closer to urban areas and because of that they are probably more exposed trough media.

I'm sure that everything will go smooth just like it did in South Africa and Brazil.

We had the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and it was conducted without any safety issues. The same can be said about the 2014 World Cup, which was held in Brazil. Both these countries do have very high murder rates. And in Brazil and South Africa (and in Mexico as well) the crime ridden areas are located far away from the major urban centers. On the other hand, in the United States the major urban metropolitan areas are more crime ridden when compared to the rural localities. If you are concerned about crime, then I guess you need to worry about the US more than the case with Mexico.

I saw your post and wanted to check where Mexico stands in the list of countries by murder rate per 100k people. I was surprised to see that Mexico is in the 13th spot with 29,07 murders per 100.000 people. That measurement was taken in the 2018 year, but I don't think that anything has changed since then. For comparison, in the USA the murder rate per 100.000 people is 4,96. That still is a big number but it's nothing when compared to Mexico.
I really don't know how smart it is to hold such a big competition in such an insecure country.

I wonder if mexico would be an appropriate place to organize the world cup since they are a very insecure country:


source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/06/terror-cartel-violence-engulfs-mexican-city-el-chapo-son

reading the article, and just do more research that anyone can see that this type of news is very frequent in mexico, I can not understand why they are putting mexico to organize the world cup when they know the issue of crimes they have, I know that in every country in the world the number of crimes varies, but the difference between Mexico and other countries is that in Mexico they are dealing with drug crimes in which criminals already have evolved weapons and fight against the police, the brazil for example has this, they organized the world cup, but in brazil drug dealers stay in their territory, they have no power in the cities where the police are, whereas in mexico all institutions are corrupted by drug dealers

Most of the money that is spend goes to building road and rail infrastructure, that will be in use even after the tournament. However, there will be some wasteful expenditure as well. For example, Qatar built so many stadiums for the 2022 edition and many of them will remain idle for the next few years (unless they host some major tournament again). In case of Mexico, in most cases they are not building new stadiums. They are only refurbishing the existing stadiums. So my guess is that there would not be much wasteful expense.

It's true that Mexico will do it and become the first country to be able to host the World Cup 3x because other countries like Germany and Brazil and the USA will only be 2x so far, and that's not weird because FIFA doesn't appoint just any country, only countries who propose to be the host will be selected and for 2026 there are only 4 countries that apply to host WC USA along with Mexico and Canada are counted as one place and Morocco. The high cost of building infrastructure is an obstacle for many countries to apply to host the World Cup, and it will be difficult for developing countries to do so

I mean is about alternatives covid or other viruses instead of covid like some time ago, and it shouldn't be a scary thing anymore and we should live our lives back to normal

Well, many think that Mexico is just drugs, cartels and things like that, but if we go to see its people, their name is something else, they are very kind people, you can make great friends, as they all have their ambitions and dreams, they are people normal, I know that sometimes these criminal groups do and undo, but great care must be taken so that you do not fall into those dangers, also as it will be there, the government must deploy a great security plan, at least in the space where it is located. will celebrate the event, of course if people start to explore without knowing some places they can reach places where they are very "red zones" and that is the danger. However, in Europe there are many places where there are criminal organizations that are quite reckless, not being named much is something else.

We are still talking about COVID? It has been almost 3 years since the first cases spread from China to other countries (Italy and Japan). Here in India, hardly anyone cares about COVID anymore. People seems to have got the immunity against COVID, as a result of vaccinations and infections. Zero-COVID countries such as China have realized their mistake and are no longer trying to contain the infection. A flu virus similar to COVID may emerge in 2026, but I don't think that the current pandemic will last beyond this year (2023).

This will be the third time that Mexico hosts a world cup, that must be some kind of record, I can't remember any other team that would have hosted it that many times.

It's a bit weird because there are still so many places in the world that haven't hosted it, and yet having Mexico for a third time (and the US as a second time) seems a bit strange.

First time for Canada though, so that's something at least.

If I'm not mistaken USA Mexico and Canada were selected in 2018 as hosts for the 2026 World Cup so it's been quite a while, and those who put themselves forward, and must have seen the huge advantage to be had by hosting. If an alternative covid emerges then there will definitely be adjustments like what happened at the Japanese Olympics and also the previous European Cup