Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 69. (Read 47855 times)

FIFA World Cup Qualifier second round Iraq vs Indonesian

Indonesia will away to Iraq on the first qualifier match of Group F at tomorrow night based on my country region time, its difficult position for Indonesia team because the opening match have away and against favorite teams Iraq. Have few days for training center with some aboard players joining late its not good choose for Indonesia manager Shin Tae-yong because he can't build team working with few days only for training center. Currently, Iraq is favorite team with higher FIFA ranking above from Indonesia but also they have advantage with playing home and getting draw is good result for Indonesia teams indeed I want to see my national team can get three points on opening second round qualifier match.

Indonesia teams have two away consecutive matches, after facing Iraq five days later will away again for facing Philippines and I hope my national team can get minimum four points from two away matches.

There are multiple events happening all the time in the US, so I'm sure that they will be able to successfully host the world cup.

And I think it will be an amazing world cup actually, since we will have more freedom to do things like drinking alcohol, kissing your partner, etc.

I don't see any reason why there would be a weapon issue in the world cup.

Since I saw how the United States government currently seems to have failed to prevent the large number of illegal immigrants from entering their area, I have doubts about the attitude of the United States government in the future to reduce the brutality of spectators who come from various corners of the world. Well, we all know the jargon of the United States is a free country, and there are quite a lot of states in the United States that cannot be categorized as safe for civilians, besides that there are still lots of mass shootings happening there because the legality of weapons still cannot be regulated, I really doubt that the USA will be successful in hosting the world cup games.

You are right, many people came to the USA illegally because they can guarantee the security of the borders and maybe most of these illegal people were from Mexico. But still, I'm not talking about the illegal people who come to the USA but if you want to do everything legally, you need to pass many hard stages and get a visa to the USA for normal people, especially from some countries is not easy at all. The USA needs to solve this problem immediately.

Like people coming to watch football will have time to make security trouble in the host countries. Qatar World Cup passed without issues thanks to the effort deployed by the country and its citizens. Same goes for so many versions of World Cup played in the past.
I am not sure if US have the most people that got hurt from guns if we neglect the zones with war ont it. Security problems if ever will happen then it will start in the country itself and not from outside in my opinion

LOL.. so far this year, around 3 million people have crossed into the United States illegally and the Biden administration is not doing anything about it. In response the Republican ruled states are simply bussing these illegals to deep-blue states such as New York and New Jersey. When so many people are admitted without any sort of documentation in such a short period of time, I don't think that they should worry about the Visa status of a few thousand people from third world nations who want to watch the world cup in person. 

This might be a bit out of topic, but people inside the US are quite dangerous themselves. Only this year, there has been 520 mass shooting there:


That's a crazy amount of people killed by mass shootings.

Hopefully the World Cup is great and no major issues appear.

America is a country that pays more attention to its people and they usually try to avoid letting dangerous people enter this country because they care about the security of their people that's why it's hard for some people to enter the USA. However, I think America knows they need to make some changes in the rules during the World Cup to make everything easier for the people who want to enter the country just to watch the World Cup games.

@Strongkored I believe that a lot will change for this World Cup visas because there’s elections next year in US and depending on who wins they can make better or worst change. Furthermore our only hope is that FIFA will exert some pressure on US but I’m not sure if US will bow down under pressure so as a fan one needs to apply as early as possible to have a better chance of watching the tournament live.

This gets a little difficult. How does the US want to host the World Cup if they still have distrust towards Arab countries or third world countries? When a country decides to host the World Cup, they must also be ready to welcome various kinds of guests from various countries who will visit their country. It would be very funny if only players and officials and influencers were allowed to enter their countries to support their respective national teams.

Absolutely.

The previous World Cup in the US happened almost 3 decades ago (!) 

It was basically a different world, Google officially launched four years later, in 1998. Most young people would not even be able to imagine a world without Google.

There has been so many things happening in the world since, and the US has definitely been more restrictive in terms of who they are letting in.

It is much harder to enter the US now. Unless you are somehow crossing the border into the US and making up a story about how you got human trafficked into the US and you seek help from the US. Then it is a different story. If I am not wrong, I believe that's what has been going on in recent times.  A lot of people are actually crossing the borders, especially the US – Mexico border. And very little problems they have been facing. That is also probably a big reason why the US actually has a homeless people problem right now. A lot of people think that the US is the best country in the world. I definitely think it is actually one of the worst.

After all, the United States is not a stupid country that proposed to host the World Cup but also made it difficult to obtain a visa to enter the country, because if it is difficult to get a visa, their income will be small because one of their incomes is the large number of tourists who come to watch the match live. direct.
Do they only target audiences from their country? I think not because football is still not a popular sport there, this sport is still less popular than basketball and others. So continuing to argue about the difficulty of getting a visa to the United States no longer makes sense because they will understand better how to manage this matter.
So, as you said, everything must have gone through a lot of consideration by FIFA and the USA.

FIFA have think all needed before choosing some country to be host of World Cup, Unite State know most difficult country for getting Visa but have an exception when becoming host of FIFA World Cup 2026 all visa procedure will make it easy. During have many edition of World Cup I don't see any host of World Cup make difficult for visa process and many fans around the world easily get visa access to travel country become the host of World Cup.
I don't think have option with stay longer than how many days FIFA World Cup start, looks realistic with 30 days its more enough to get visa in Unite State and not required more than one month depend with World Cup usually taken until 30 days from group stage until final match.

Yes, the US has hosted the world cup before, but that was in 1994...

It was a very different world back then. Everything changed after September of 2001.

The requirements for entry to the US are very different. It's much harder to enter the US now.

Getting an American Visa for the 2026 FIFA World Cup shouldn't be a problem I think. There's a provision by FIFA for any host country of the FIFA World Cup to provide special Visa for fans of the participating countries which are totally different from the normal travelling Visa. The Visa allows the fans of the participating countries to visit the host country and it also does expire few days after the World Cup which means that fans can't even stay longer than the period of the tournament with such Visa

I think we should not even be worried about the problems with taking a Visa for America during this tournament because I think America can easily handle this case. we should not forget they hosted the World Cup before and right now when we are discussing about this case, America and FIFA are both aware of this problem and they can find a way for it to be solved.

With respect to physical and financial capacity, it is very good that the US can host all the games, that is something we know and that if it is Possible , I don't know, it is the first time that they are going to do it with 3 countries and it seems something new and I think it can work and things might be favorable, we have to wait and see how this works now with these 3 countries, but personally I also still think that a single country is a lot of money that they have to invest, and it can be something dangerous if they do not manage to comply with what it is, then because of this I believe that if the best possible is done in 3 countries, each one will have the pleasure of being a host and will have the joy of being one of the best, the people who attend the countries are the ones who will be able to judge that it is only the best and how it seems to them, it seems great to me, but I still think that things can be much better, knowing that now there is more chance of doing better things if it is with help from another two more years.

We must always emphasize that things are better when it comes to priority countries, some think that the USA is better prepared, maybe yes, soccer in North America has grown a lot, but you have to see how good Mexican soccer is, I don't know At what level is soccer in Canada, but if it is possible, you can take advantage of anything to do and enjoy Canadian soccer. I haven't seen much about the local soccer league. The USA league has given a lot of value. What's there to talk about in the MLS and that's because of Messi, but to be honest it's a football that I don't like, I think it needs to raise its level much more, and the participation with respect to the FIFA Ranking is Below Mexican football, so The Mexican league is far above them, making it look like the most difficult football is there, for that Reason it doesn't catch my attention, and it has really become more famous because Messi is there.

American has got the infrastructure, resources and the capacity to host the world cup and it was enough reason why they were choosen, they also have gat the experience so it would be hitch free with their logistics and Planning so it will be much better hosting in US

The issues with visa is something I'm very sure FIFA is very much aware of the issues with Visa and will definitely find a way around it so as to enable others participate in the world cup except for the players. Even the American government are aware of how well it will affect their economy and reputation if there are limitations to number of people who could possibly attend the world cup because within that period of the world cup there will be an impact on the country generally.

To be fair I think if you have a world cup ticket, it would not be that hard to go visit USA, they will let you in, its the world cup and you should be able to visit it with a world cup ticket, and a hotel ticket, and plane tickets. Those three things should be enough, plane ticket that shows when you are going and when you are coming back, so there is definite thing, hotel reservation that shows you have it ready for when you go there, and world cup game tickets tos how that you are in fact going for that, all these three should be enough for you to visit.

Of course I have never visited USA in my entire life, so I wouldn't know how tough they are about their VISA situation, could be important or could be different in the end, I would guess that it would not be all that simple and could end up with a different result in the end. I believe that it should be quite important to see the difference when given enough amount of time for people to test and see.