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It depends from which side are you looking at the World Cup 2022. If you watched it on a TV from your home, everything was great and most of the games were interesting. However I'm sure that fans that were stopped in the airport because they didn't get their visa on time. There was a situation where two guys payed almost $3000 for a game and airplane ticket to go to one game. One guy got his visa and the other guy didn't get it in time. The guy without a visa got stopped from entering a plane in Frankfurt, Germany and his friend didn't want to go alone. In the end not only have they lost $3000, they had to buy another plane ticket to get home from Frankfurt.

And then there were those discriminate situations where something that is normal in "our" world was forbidden in Qatar, but I won't go into that.

Visa issues during 2026 edition will be much worse than what they had in 2022. Qatar at least issues tourist visa without much delay, unless you are from the pariah states such as North Korea or Cuba. Getting a tourist visa for the United States is next to impossible for most of those who are residing in the third world nations. I am not sure whether they will make some exemptions for the 2026 World Cup, but we are going to witness a lot of ugly scenes at the airport.

Perhaps football fans need to wait until 2030, if they don't want to waste their hard earned money. But we don't know about hosts for the 2030 edition yet. Right now there are at least a dozen bids, including those from Morocco, combined Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay, combined Spain–Portugal–Ukraine, and the joint bid from United Kingdom-Ireland. Voting will be held sometime in 2024.

If this tournament is organized for football, everything should be done for football fans. What makes football football is the enthusiastic fans. For this reason, it is necessary to provide convenience in visa. If the necessary convenience is not provided, big problems will arise. That is why the United States should start working on the issue already.

This is going to be an issue this time because USA, Canada and Mexico will not loosen their visa policies and that is going to be a big issue for them if too much people will come and reside their later on illegally which happens commonly in Europe. Tourist visa will not ho in their favour so let's see how they'll plan this as majority of football fans will apply for that in 2026.

I have thought of many ways that there are no problems due to the visa problem, and this can be made a superior policy, that is, that there is a way that those who have to attend the country is that they give it some provisions, at least what Let the World Cup last 15 more days, this to give the person a chance to visit the countries, this to do tourism, make the economy move, and give a good show to this, I think that is the best way basic and easy to solve, but from now to 2026 we do not know which governments will be in the countries, if on the contrary instead of making immigration policies more flexible or on the contrary if a Trump wins then the measures will be much worse, tarnishing a show.

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We shall discuss everything from qualification, preparation, and then the commencement of the actual Fifa world cup in 2026.

Honestly, I thought this increase from 32 to 48 teams was very good, but making groups with only three participants, and ranking two in order to take two thirds of all teams to a direct elimination duel is insane, in my opinion.

Obviously this is not defined yet, but I would prefer to see 12 groups with four teams each, so that fewer teams qualify for the second phase.
And you, do you agree?

I also have another question.... how do you imagine that Argentina, current champions, will perform in the next World Cup without Lionel Messi and Ángel di María?
I think Argentina need to be concerned early on about how they are going to deal with this deficit in their attacking team.

It's too early to predict how will Argentina perform in the next world cup.
No One predicted that Morocco will make the history. But on the other hand - I think they will host the initial matches in Mexico and then the important matches in USA and maybe final in Canada.

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Quote from: noormcs5 on January 14, 2023, 01:38:12 PM

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It is a possibility that the 2026 World Cup could be impacted by a dangerous pandemic. With the ongoing threat of COVID-19 and the emergence of new variants, it is a concern that a similar or even more severe outbreak could occur during the tournament. This could lead to travel restrictions, quarantine measures, and even cancellation of the event. The potential for a pandemic to disrupt the World Cup should not be taken lightly and preparations should be made to mitigate the risk as much as possible. The safety and health of players, fans, and staff should be the top priority.

There are still four more years until we see the fifa world cup in 2026. Covid 19 has been finished in most part of the world and even if it is still there, the symptoms are very less.
Although we do not know about the future but i think that in 2026, there will be no covid 19 at that time and maybe we have a cure / medicine developed by that time to protect or treat the covid 19 patients.

I think the world cup which will be held in 2026 in USA will be covid free and there will be no threat about this disease at that time.

I'm still wondering if it is possible to predict when the pandemic comes. No body sees when pandemic comes, it is a surprise for everyone, it takes people unaware. I doubt if you think pandemic will happen the year 2026. The world cup will definitely hold by then and nothing like pandemic will make the competition to be postpone.

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Quote from: Sithara007 on January 13, 2023, 09:20:22 AM

Quote from: slackovic on January 13, 2023, 07:38:50 AM

It depends from which side are you looking at the World Cup 2022. If you watched it on a TV from your home, everything was great and most of the games were interesting. However I'm sure that fans that were stopped in the airport because they didn't get their visa on time. There was a situation where two guys payed almost $3000 for a game and airplane ticket to go to one game. One guy got his visa and the other guy didn't get it in time. The guy without a visa got stopped from entering a plane in Frankfurt, Germany and his friend didn't want to go alone. In the end not only have they lost $3000, they had to buy another plane ticket to get home from Frankfurt.

And then there were those discriminate situations where something that is normal in "our" world was forbidden in Qatar, but I won't go into that.

Visa issues during 2026 edition will be much worse than what they had in 2022. Qatar at least issues tourist visa without much delay, unless you are from the pariah states such as North Korea or Cuba. Getting a tourist visa for the United States is next to impossible for most of those who are residing in the third world nations. I am not sure whether they will make some exemptions for the 2026 World Cup, but we are going to witness a lot of ugly scenes at the airport.

Perhaps football fans need to wait until 2030, if they don't want to waste their hard earned money. But we don't know about hosts for the 2030 edition yet. Right now there are at least a dozen bids, including those from Morocco, combined Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay, combined Spain–Portugal–Ukraine, and the joint bid from United Kingdom-Ireland. Voting will be held sometime in 2024.

Qatar didn't issued a tourist visa that easily for nothing, and USA wouldn't issue it for nothing neither. We are talking about one nation that is literally bribing Fifa to do it so they could promote their nation vs a nation that is already troubled with immigrants to begin with because they are a good nation.

I am sure that you could all realize that one nation being a lot better to live in and want to immigrate to versus the other is obvious here. Who would want to immigrate to Qatar where they literally killed thousands to build for world cup, but you would want to immigrate to USA which is a real thing right now. That's the difference between visa applications and a real thing.

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It is a possibility that the 2026 World Cup could be impacted by a dangerous pandemic. With the ongoing threat of COVID-19 and the emergence of new variants, it is a concern that a similar or even more severe outbreak could occur during the tournament. This could lead to travel restrictions, quarantine measures, and even cancellation of the event. The potential for a pandemic to disrupt the World Cup should not be taken lightly and preparations should be made to mitigate the risk as much as possible. The safety and health of players, fans, and staff should be the top priority.

There are still four more years until we see the fifa world cup in 2026. Covid 19 has been finished in most part of the world and even if it is still there, the symptoms are very less.
Although we do not know about the future but i think that in 2026, there will be no covid 19 at that time and maybe we have a cure / medicine developed by that time to protect or treat the covid 19 patients.

I think the world cup which will be held in 2026 in USA will be covid free and there will be no threat about this disease at that time.

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It depends from which side are you looking at the World Cup 2022. If you watched it on a TV from your home, everything was great and most of the games were interesting. However I'm sure that fans that were stopped in the airport because they didn't get their visa on time. There was a situation where two guys payed almost $3000 for a game and airplane ticket to go to one game. One guy got his visa and the other guy didn't get it in time. The guy without a visa got stopped from entering a plane in Frankfurt, Germany and his friend didn't want to go alone. In the end not only have they lost $3000, they had to buy another plane ticket to get home from Frankfurt.

And then there were those discriminate situations where something that is normal in "our" world was forbidden in Qatar, but I won't go into that.

Visa issues during 2026 edition will be much worse than what they had in 2022. Qatar at least issues tourist visa without much delay, unless you are from the pariah states such as North Korea or Cuba. Getting a tourist visa for the United States is next to impossible for most of those who are residing in the third world nations. I am not sure whether they will make some exemptions for the 2026 World Cup, but we are going to witness a lot of ugly scenes at the airport.

Perhaps football fans need to wait until 2030, if they don't want to waste their hard earned money. But we don't know about hosts for the 2030 edition yet. Right now there are at least a dozen bids, including those from Morocco, combined Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay, combined Spain–Portugal–Ukraine, and the joint bid from United Kingdom-Ireland. Voting will be held sometime in 2024.

It's possible that the government may implement measures such as increased online visa application processing and streamlined approval processes to make it easier for fans to travel to the United States for the 2026 World Cup. It's also worth noting that the United States has a history of hosting large events, such as the World Cup in 1994 and the Olympics in 1996, so we can trust that they will have the resources and experience to effectively manage the logistics of hosting such a large event.

It is a possibility that the 2026 World Cup could be impacted by a dangerous pandemic. With the ongoing threat of COVID-19 and the emergence of new variants, it is a concern that a similar or even more severe outbreak could occur during the tournament. This could lead to travel restrictions, quarantine measures, and even cancellation of the event. The potential for a pandemic to disrupt the World Cup should not be taken lightly and preparations should be made to mitigate the risk as much as possible. The safety and health of players, fans, and staff should be the top priority.

Surly - they have been working on better customer services for the non immigrants visas. In our country they have waved off the interviews for the renewal of visa and that is a good step - for the visit visa I am sure they will have easy visa policy. Lots of people will move to the States and Canada. And the asylum rate will also increase.

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Quote from: gagux123 on January 14, 2023, 03:44:31 AM

Quote from: nullama on January 13, 2023, 06:47:08 PM

I think that was one of the biggest surprises of the tournament. They literally made history, being the first African nation to reach to the semi finals of the world cup.

Another surprise was of course Saudi Arabia winning against the future world cup winner, Argentina.

And I think there were a few other results that no one was expecting. It was a pretty entertaining world cup.

Yes, absolutely! In fact Morocco played as if that game was the last game of their lives, literally they played above their 100%.

If Morocco had the same tactical and quality level as an elite team, for example Brazil, France and Argentina, and if they played with the same determination that they had in this World Cup, I have no doubt that they would be champions!
Several friends and I thought about this possibility.

I even forgot to comment, in my opinion Japan also surprised the world, because they beat Germany and Spain and managed to take Croatia to the penalties in the "round of 16", but unfortunately they lost.

Well, the conclusion I can reach is that football has become a sport widely known and practiced all over the world, and several countries are getting special attention to football, which proves what I said are the unexpected results we had in this last world cup.

The trend of national teams from outside Europe and South America achieving great results at world cups did not start with Morocco in Qatar, but with South Korea at the 2002 World Cup.
South Korea was then fourth in the world, as was Morocco at the world cup in Qatar.
Ghana came very close to the semi-finals at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, but unfortunately lost the quarter-final match against Uruguay, when they failed to score the winning goal from the penalty spot in the last minute of the game.
In fact, at every World Cup, a few teams surprise and we see a few surprising results.
Japan was not a surprise to me at this world championship at all, I remember how 4 years ago in the round of 16 they played a great match against Belgium and in the end they unfortunately lost.
At this world championship, I was most surprised by the success of Morocco and the disappointing results of Germany, Belgium and Denmark.

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Quote from: harapan on January 14, 2023, 04:26:25 AM

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Europe had 14 teams out of 32 in the 2022 world cup. Do you want all the countries in the tournament to be European countries? Italy couldn't qualify and that was no fault of Qatar or Saudi Arabia. Its the world cup. 4 from S. America, 4 from Asia and 5 from Africa. Its even more difficult to qualify in these South America than it is to qualify in Europe.
Europe already has more than double of what every other continent has and you think its not enough because countries like Saudi Arabia qualify and Italy didn't qualify?

In the 2026 world cup Europe will have 16 teams, Africa 9, Asia 8, S. America 6. Europe is still very well represented. Qualification is by regions so if you cant qualify in your region its no ones fault. Its same thing with the UCL where a big team like Chelsea wont qualify but a relatively smaller team like Copenhagen would qualify.

South America has 10 teams, each one of them are able to play football pretty well, so it's a really competitive league.

In Europe there are many teams that are extremely weak, like San Marino for example. It's just not the same.

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Quote from: slackovic on January 13, 2023, 07:38:50 AM

It depends from which side are you looking at the World Cup 2022. If you watched it on a TV from your home, everything was great and most of the games were interesting. However I'm sure that fans that were stopped in the airport because they didn't get their visa on time. There was a situation where two guys payed almost $3000 for a game and airplane ticket to go to one game. One guy got his visa and the other guy didn't get it in time. The guy without a visa got stopped from entering a plane in Frankfurt, Germany and his friend didn't want to go alone. In the end not only have they lost $3000, they had to buy another plane ticket to get home from Frankfurt.

And then there were those discriminate situations where something that is normal in "our" world was forbidden in Qatar, but I won't go into that.

Visa issues during 2026 edition will be much worse than what they had in 2022. Qatar at least issues tourist visa without much delay, unless you are from the pariah states such as North Korea or Cuba. Getting a tourist visa for the United States is next to impossible for most of those who are residing in the third world nations. I am not sure whether they will make some exemptions for the 2026 World Cup, but we are going to witness a lot of ugly scenes at the airport.

Perhaps football fans need to wait until 2030, if they don't want to waste their hard earned money. But we don't know about hosts for the 2030 edition yet. Right now there are at least a dozen bids, including those from Morocco, combined Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay, combined Spain–Portugal–Ukraine, and the joint bid from United Kingdom-Ireland. Voting will be held sometime in 2024.

If this tournament is organized for football, everything should be done for football fans. What makes football football is the enthusiastic fans. For this reason, it is necessary to provide convenience in visa. If the necessary convenience is not provided, big problems will arise. That is why the United States should start working on the issue already.

This is going to be an issue this time because USA, Canada and Mexico will not loosen their visa policies and that is going to be a big issue for them if too much people will come and reside their later on illegally which happens commonly in Europe. Tourist visa will not ho in their favour so let's see how they'll plan this as majority of football fans will apply for that in 2026.

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Quote from: nullama on January 11, 2023, 04:13:38 PM

Historically, South America and Europe have consistently performed way better than any other continents.

Personally, I actually think those two continents have too few slots to qualify, for example only 4.5 slots out of 10 for South America, and in Europe giants like Italy failed to qualify.

On the other hand, having Saudi Arabia or Qatar in the world cup instead of Italy just doesn't seem right to me as their skill is just not on par.

Europe had 14 teams out of 32 in the 2022 world cup. Do you want all the countries in the tournament to be European countries? Italy couldn't qualify and that was no fault of Qatar or Saudi Arabia. Its the world cup. 4 from S. America, 4 from Asia and 5 from Africa. Its even more difficult to qualify in these South America than it is to qualify in Europe.
Europe already has more than double of what every other continent has and you think its not enough because countries like Saudi Arabia qualify and Italy didn't qualify?

In the 2026 world cup Europe will have 16 teams, Africa 9, Asia 8, S. America 6. Europe is still very well represented. Qualification is by regions so if you cant qualify in your region its no ones fault. Its same thing with the UCL where a big team like Chelsea wont qualify but a relatively smaller team like Copenhagen would qualify.

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Quote from: slackovic on January 13, 2023, 07:38:50 AM

It depends from which side are you looking at the World Cup 2022. If you watched it on a TV from your home, everything was great and most of the games were interesting. However I'm sure that fans that were stopped in the airport because they didn't get their visa on time. There was a situation where two guys payed almost $3000 for a game and airplane ticket to go to one game. One guy got his visa and the other guy didn't get it in time. The guy without a visa got stopped from entering a plane in Frankfurt, Germany and his friend didn't want to go alone. In the end not only have they lost $3000, they had to buy another plane ticket to get home from Frankfurt.

And then there were those discriminate situations where something that is normal in "our" world was forbidden in Qatar, but I won't go into that.

Visa issues during 2026 edition will be much worse than what they had in 2022. Qatar at least issues tourist visa without much delay, unless you are from the pariah states such as North Korea or Cuba. Getting a tourist visa for the United States is next to impossible for most of those who are residing in the third world nations. I am not sure whether they will make some exemptions for the 2026 World Cup, but we are going to witness a lot of ugly scenes at the airport.

Perhaps football fans need to wait until 2030, if they don't want to waste their hard earned money. But we don't know about hosts for the 2030 edition yet. Right now there are at least a dozen bids, including those from Morocco, combined Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay, combined Spain–Portugal–Ukraine, and the joint bid from United Kingdom-Ireland. Voting will be held sometime in 2024.

If this tournament is organized for football, everything should be done for football fans. What makes football football is the enthusiastic fans. For this reason, it is necessary to provide convenience in visa. If the necessary convenience is not provided, big problems will arise. That is why the United States should start working on the issue already.

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Quote from: gagux123 on January 14, 2023, 03:44:31 AM

Quote from: nullama on January 13, 2023, 06:47:08 PM

I think that was one of the biggest surprises of the tournament. They literally made history, being the first African nation to reach to the semi finals of the world cup.

Another surprise was of course Saudi Arabia winning against the future world cup winner, Argentina.

And I think there were a few other results that no one was expecting. It was a pretty entertaining world cup.

Yes, absolutely! In fact Morocco played as if that game was the last game of their lives, literally they played above their 100%.

If Morocco had the same tactical and quality level as an elite team, for example Brazil, France and Argentina, and if they played with the same determination that they had in this World Cup, I have no doubt that they would be champions!
Several friends and I thought about this possibility.

I even forgot to comment, in my opinion Japan also surprised the world, because they beat Germany and Spain and managed to take Croatia to the penalties in the "round of 16", but unfortunately they lost.

Well, the conclusion I can reach is that football has become a sport widely known and practiced all over the world, and several countries are getting special attention to football, which proves what I said are the unexpected results we had in this last world cup.

Morocco made the history - they were the real champions. We have witness some great moment and an amazing end of the world cup.
That the sports which bring colour to the world and bring excitement and amusement to everyone. For a moment all the people in Argentina forgot their worries.

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Quote from: nullama on January 13, 2023, 06:47:08 PM

I think that was one of the biggest surprises of the tournament. They literally made history, being the first African nation to reach to the semi finals of the world cup.

Another surprise was of course Saudi Arabia winning against the future world cup winner, Argentina.

And I think there were a few other results that no one was expecting. It was a pretty entertaining world cup.

Yes, absolutely! In fact Morocco played as if that game was the last game of their lives, literally they played above their 100%.

If Morocco had the same tactical and quality level as an elite team, for example Brazil, France and Argentina, and if they played with the same determination that they had in this World Cup, I have no doubt that they would be champions!
Several friends and I thought about this possibility.

I even forgot to comment, in my opinion Japan also surprised the world, because they beat Germany and Spain and managed to take Croatia to the penalties in the "round of 16", but unfortunately they lost.

Well, the conclusion I can reach is that football has become a sport widely known and practiced all over the world, and several countries are getting special attention to football, which proves what I said are the unexpected results we had in this last world cup.

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Quote from: Hispo on January 08, 2023, 08:36:32 PM

Some probably will, but in the end that is not responsibility of the FIFA, but rather of the United States government.
Since traveling to another country counts as tourism, USA immigration would be more careful when comes to granting Visas to those seeking to watch the matches, making sure they have no reason to move illegally and return to their home after the event.

They won't give visas to those who can't provide proof of job, income and family in their native motherland.

Most of the time people visit to go abroad. They wish to travel and work there but not in their own country.
I wish people work hard in their own country too so to bring prosperity and wealth to their local country.

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... I just hope that FIFA will never allow regressive countries such as Qatar to host such tournaments in the future.

Keeping in mind the ongoing scandal in Europe about politicians who seemed to have been under the influence of Qatar (a.k.a bribery and lobbying), one could expect some future backlash from European government towards the FIFA when comes to the selection of hosts for the World Cup. I am not an expert at FIFA policies, but I am sure paying for hosting and paying politicians is not part of the legal protocol.

In the end, the only way to punish corrupt people is to punch them both in the wallet and their life time. Jail.

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Quote from: gagux123 on January 13, 2023, 05:41:59 PM

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Well, to be honest, I confess that I was very surprised with Morocco disputing this semifinals of this world cup, I never imagined that they could have reached there, but they played with a lot of vigor and determination, and in fact the results they achieved were deserved!!

I think that was one of the biggest surprises of the tournament. They literally made history, being the first African nation to reach to the semi finals of the world cup.

Another surprise was of course Saudi Arabia winning against the future world cup winner, Argentina.

And I think there were a few other results that no one was expecting. It was a pretty entertaining world cup.

Agreed, unexpected outcomes kept the entire tournament interesting. From the beginning to the last more teams that are expected to win came out earlier. Morocco is really good at its game and gained good support from people around the world, who were once in favour of the top nations.

Came across a video of Saudi players getting threatened by an official for losing a match. I don't know whether that is true or not. If someone have come across the video please post what is being discussed.

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Quote from: gagux123 on January 13, 2023, 05:41:59 PM

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Well, to be honest, I confess that I was very surprised with Morocco disputing this semifinals of this world cup, I never imagined that they could have reached there, but they played with a lot of vigor and determination, and in fact the results they achieved were deserved!!

I think that was one of the biggest surprises of the tournament. They literally made history, being the first African nation to reach to the semi finals of the world cup.

Another surprise was of course Saudi Arabia winning against the future world cup winner, Argentina.

And I think there were a few other results that no one was expecting. It was a pretty entertaining world cup.

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My guess is that FIFA want to put Qatar behind and start off with the right foot in North America.
Besides, they may believe that changing the size of the tournament could bring more attention and profit to the next World Cup. It may have something too do that this next time it will be a bigger event (geographically) and plan to do it bigger on all sense.

Bigger does not mean better, though. I remain neutral to that decision.

I have mentioned manytimes before, I remain as a strong supporter of the decision by FIFA to increase the number of participants to 48. As we have seen from Qatar 2022, some of the most entertaining matches involved teams that would struggle to qualify for a 32-team event (I am talking about teams such as Cameroon, Morocco and South Korea). Also, when we are calling this tournament as a world cup, there is a requirement to ensure representation from all the geographies around the world. Look at the map below, and please let me know whether you find this representation or not:

You can never have all locations in the world evenly represented in the FIFA World Cup because European countries play better football and more of them qualifies. It's just a matter of which sport is more popular (and funded). The same thing is with some other sport that's not as popular in Europe as in other parts of the world. For example, you can't expect that many European countries will qualify for a world championship in cricket.

That's true European countries are dominating football world and that's why Morocco when made it to semi-final this year was a shock and surprise for whole world . And as far as Asia is concerned there are still no football teams representing in fifa like Pakistan and India and these teams are dominating in cricket world so that's they difference.
I hope so among 48 teams in 2026 Pakistan and India should be inside it .

Well, to be honest, I confess that I was very surprised with Morocco disputing this semifinals of this world cup, I never imagined that they could have reached there, but they played with a lot of vigor and determination, and in fact the results they achieved were deserved!!

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Quote from: slackovic on January 13, 2023, 07:38:50 AM

It depends from which side are you looking at the World Cup 2022. If you watched it on a TV from your home, everything was great and most of the games were interesting. However I'm sure that fans that were stopped in the airport because they didn't get their visa on time. There was a situation where two guys payed almost $3000 for a game and airplane ticket to go to one game. One guy got his visa and the other guy didn't get it in time. The guy without a visa got stopped from entering a plane in Frankfurt, Germany and his friend didn't want to go alone. In the end not only have they lost $3000, they had to buy another plane ticket to get home from Frankfurt.

And then there were those discriminate situations where something that is normal in "our" world was forbidden in Qatar, but I won't go into that.

I will. What is "normal" in our nation is literally just women wearing whatever the hell they want, that's a freedom, if you are going to put pressure on women that goes to Qatar, and I do not even mean women of their own nations, I mean women that goes to visit, and tell them to wear "proper" clothing, that's not just limiting someone's freedom, but that's literally a crime in our nation.

You can't force women, you can't force lgbtq people, you can't force anyone to do what you want to do, and that was disgusting. West may have a lot of troubles, as someone who is not from west I can say that they have many many faults, but freedom to wear whatever you want is a key difference because if even that's an issue, then imagine all the other ones we do not know about.

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Quote from: slackovic on January 13, 2023, 07:38:50 AM

It depends from which side are you looking at the World Cup 2022. If you watched it on a TV from your home, everything was great and most of the games were interesting. However I'm sure that fans that were stopped in the airport because they didn't get their visa on time. There was a situation where two guys payed almost $3000 for a game and airplane ticket to go to one game. One guy got his visa and the other guy didn't get it in time. The guy without a visa got stopped from entering a plane in Frankfurt, Germany and his friend didn't want to go alone. In the end not only have they lost $3000, they had to buy another plane ticket to get home from Frankfurt.

And then there were those discriminate situations where something that is normal in "our" world was forbidden in Qatar, but I won't go into that.

Visa issues during 2026 edition will be much worse than what they had in 2022. Qatar at least issues tourist visa without much delay, unless you are from the pariah states such as North Korea or Cuba. Getting a tourist visa for the United States is next to impossible for most of those who are residing in the third world nations. I am not sure whether they will make some exemptions for the 2026 World Cup, but we are going to witness a lot of ugly scenes at the airport.

Perhaps football fans need to wait until 2030, if they don't want to waste their hard earned money. But we don't know about hosts for the 2030 edition yet. Right now there are at least a dozen bids, including those from Morocco, combined Uruguay–Argentina–Chile–Paraguay, combined Spain–Portugal–Ukraine, and the joint bid from United Kingdom-Ireland. Voting will be held sometime in 2024.

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