Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 75. (Read 66160 times)

The truth about the Brazilian national team in recent years is that they've not had the best natural no.9 strikers but one thing you can't take away from them is the fact that they're always equipped with prolific attackers mostly from the flanks. They have wingers who would easily help the team get results whenever it matters most and that's the most important thing in football. Not having natural no.9 strikers hasn't been a barrier to the Brazilians if you ask me.
Currently, the Brazil national team arguably have the best talented set of attackers in the world but none of them is natural striker. They might not be the best FIFA ranked team in the world at the moment but the truth is that the depth in the Brazilian squad is undoubtedly one of the best

Wow wow, 😂
How time really flies, sincerely appreciate discussion like this as it reminded me of when I was pretty much a kid, or better still, a teenager, I remember the high regard we used to have for the Brazilian football team, because they were simply the best of all, I mean, nothing anyone could have told me back then that changes my mind, I remember when me and some friends in those days used to have a very long and heaty arguments at school, concerning Brazil and other team during an ongoing world cup tournament, and I remember not giving regard to my country's football team but will never want to miss the match when ever Brazil was playing 😂.

But unfortunately, even good times change, and today, Brazil football team is no longer the same Brazil football team I knew back then, what really happened to them? Did they stop hurting for new and young talents to join their football squad? Or is it that people of great football talent are no longer born in their country?..this and many more questions I have in my head.

I think what makes Brazil one of the best in football is that they have a lot of great players who can score goals. They once had a great defender and a great midfielder. On average, Brazilian players in the past had great finishing. But Brazil today is not the same as Brazil in the past. I agree with you that Brazil no longer has a striker with excellent finishing. Vinicius is my player and not a striker although he can be positioned as a striker if the team doesn't have a pure striker.

I didn't watch the gams in America a lot as you watch but as I said because I think you are right and the fission FIFA made was a wise decision because America got enough good sports facilities in their country to have better hosting than other countries while unlike the last world cup in Qatar they also don't need to spend too much money and force the workers to build new stadiums while the only thing they need is to repair what they already have.

@armanda90, Problem of Brazil is that the team not being balanced at all. And we all know that the Brazil team or the Brazil country in general is able to produce a lot of wingers. And the wingers are really high-quality. If we look at the quality of the wingers and the quality of the players in other positions, it is actually not even comparable. They do not have many quality players in other positions.

One thing that people mistake about Brazil is that they think Brazil has a lot of great strikers. But they actually do not. The wingers are actually not strikers. That is why the finishing from Brazil is not the best as well. Not having a very good balanced squat is also a big reason why they are suffering in big competitions

Yea of course the win has made fans start having hope in them again, because they never started the competition well but with their last victory in which Vini scored two goals shows that they are capable of going far.

If Brazil did not go far, it can affect Vini in winning Ballon d'or which Brazil should work today and strengthen the bond in attack so that together they can achieve success and Vini chance of winning Ballon d'or.

This is exactly what I just stated few minutes ago about their convincing win. Brazil has being quite off with their performance and lots of their fans and spectators were actually having doubt about the way the whole performance is going to turn out especially with the on going Copa America but this win of their has actually brought some level of trust and certainty for the team.

Oh, I thought for once that we had World Cup qualifiers matches going on from where they left.    I guess you were confused with the thread name.

Here is the Copa America thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/copa-america-2024-prediction-thread-5477050

As you have mentioned Brazil, they have been terrible in the qualifiers.    Only 7 points in 6 matches... I must admit that they are promising in the Copa America recently. The new coach is doing well for now but I would like to see them recovering for the World Cup qualification too.

I really like Brazil squad. There are many talented players who have a good potential. They have only needed to be managed in the right way.

That is satisfying result and of course this victory also gives Brazil the opportunity to qualify for the quarter-finals of Euro 2024 hopefully, several young players can make Brazil strong team in the future.

For the World Cup qualifiers, the South American zone itself still has more than half of the overall match schedule remaining because everyone will have 18 matches and is currently still in the 6th round.
Brazil itself in the World Cup qualifying standings in the South American zone is still in 6th place with 7 points and 2 wins, this means that Brazil has to fight very hard to be able to get really comfortable position, and be able to enter the main World Cup competition.
Meanwhile, the top of the standings is still held by Argentina with 15 points and got 5 wins, followed by Uruguay and Colombia, they are quite strong team and for the Copa America itself, the three of them were able to become the team that topped their respective group.

many people like to travel to the USA, many people see the USA as the country of opportunities, just see that many celebrities live in the USA, many films are made in the USA, I'm talking about good films. By this I mean that the next World Cup will have a greater chance of being a great success compared to the last World Cup, in the USA people will be freer and even if ticket prices increase a lot, people will still buy a lot . Canada is also an excellent country from what I have seen on TV for many years. But the country has problems, I'm talking about Mexico

I don't know if security in Mexico has improved much because I've still been reading news saying that the US government is complaining about guys jumping from Mexico to the US illegally, so there's a large number of people leaving Mexico for the US illegally, it means that the situation in mexico is not good, so how will the us government deal with people during the world cup? This article from theguardian.com shows how the situation on the Mexican border with the USA is not good

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/07/mexico-border-explained-chart-immigration

In my opinion, choosing Mexico for the World Cup could result in many more people from Mexico wanting to cross the border illegally during the event and tourists who go to watch the games in Mexico could also suffer serious consequences. I have seen situations of people who traveled innocently but after being searched by the police discovered that they had put drugs in their suitcases without them knowing, I have also seen cases of people who traveled by car to another country and in another country were threatened to put drugs in their bags. someone without documents in his car to be able to cross the border

The fact still remains that we need to give them the support necessary as a fan because it would be a total disgrace to the entire country for a country like Nigeria who happens to be giants of Africa not to participate in the World Cup tournament for two consecutive seasons. I remember the same thing happened prior to the commencement of AFCON and behold they started poorly in the group stages but ended with more decent performances despite being defeated in the final. The problem is they are used to be unserious at the early stage perhaps due to absence of self confidence and this sometimes affects the entire process. The head coach who was appointed not by merit has tender his resignation, hopefully they might do well to hire someone who can deliver the work to our expectations.

The brasiliam team is in second place in group D with four points.
Incredibly, Vini Jr scored two goals, one of which almost dribbled past the goalkeeper (I think that goal is fantastic). I expected a draw or defeat for Brazil, given their current performance, this might rekindle hopes.

Nigeria now ranked as 38 position in the latest FIFA 20 June 2024 Ranking. Late last year and early this year they were in the position of 28 and 30 in between but now after the two march in the world cup qualifiers they have dropped to 38. Well the dropping of former head coach was not even because of the losing the two matches because I could vividly remember that when he was saying after they loss to Benin Republic 2-1 says, Nigeria Super Eagles will still qualify in the world cup until when Victor Osimhen Instagram Video was made then with that anger and other internal pressure made him to resign. And it was mainly the drift between him and Osimhen caused the resignation but before then, the assistant coach had resigned.

I was opportuned to watch the games the Nigeria Super Eagles played in their recently World Cup qualifiers and in my total assessment of the results I think the Super Eagles of Nigeria weren't as passionate as they were during the CAF African Cup Of Nations. The team were absolutely clueless of what they should do to win their which was why they couldn't get a win in those two games despite playing against teams in lesser FIFA ranking positions. The national team coach Finidi George left after those two disappointing results ajd reports have it the the football association of the country are now trying to sign a foreign coach that'll replace the departed manager. I think the Super Eagles possesses the needed quality of players to still qualify to play in the next edition of the FIFA World Cup.

In 2034, Saudi Arabia is going to host another football World Cup and it is believed that Saudi Arabia may surpass Qatar and set a new record. Saudi Arabia has a huge GDP and if they spend part of this GDP on football world cup they can still finish the football world cup tournament much better than Qatar. Qatar has built a new city ahead of the football world cup and built a stadium, but there is no need to do the same in Saudi Arabia because Saudi Arabia already has an international standard stadium and there are enough facilities for the players. So Saudi Arabia doesn't need to worry about that much, they will only think about how to make the football world cup held in their country much more attractive.

I was a strong supporter of Super Eagles but the way things are going I am not in support of them and it is better for them not to qualify because they will still disappoint us like the previous World Cup in which they were knocked out from the group stage. So if they qualified for this time too, there is no good hope. Just look at the way they are molested in the just a qualifiers stage and that means they can't do anything in the main game. So instead of them going out to give fans heart attack then it is better to stay back.

I agree that when a nation has these type of success, we should be proud of them if we are from there, but also we should keep in mind that maybe it's not cared that much if they lose as well. Like if England lost in qualifiers, the whole nation would be on the streets asking for the managers head, the players head, and even FA's had as well. Whereas if Indonesia loses every game after this point, nobody would be too upset aside from maybe the players and their families that's it.

Sometimes some nations are not good at one sport but quite good at another one. This is why we should be considering how to do better and can't really approach the situation any differently, we just can't have any type of different life if you ask me.

As we all know, FIFA is not careless in appointing the World Cup host, this is also the case with the concept that it plans to implement in each edition. As far as I know, the concept for the 2030 World Cup which is planned to be held on three continents is still not final, meaning that FIFA will still consider various other possibilities. Meanwhile, I think Saudi appointment as host of the 2034 edition of the World Cup is very interesting, and of course they will try to make it more successful than Qatar.

Saudi has quite strong financial strength, they are quite serious about investing in football, we can see the current development of the Saudi Pro League. Meanwhile, FIFA also considers security, facilities and many other things when appointing the host, in this case Saudi is said to be super safe for all groups who want to come there. Meanwhile, FIFA also doesn't want to take big risks, they still want the World Cup to run smoothly, regardless of their various decisions which are sometimes not in line with our expectations.

Quite alright, we can not justify the underperformance of Nigeria in this world cup qualifying but it's also difficult to predict their final position in the table. There are still many games ahead to play which we are not sure of the outcome yet. It's too early to make conclusion that Nigeria can not qualify for the 2026 world cup. I know it will be difficult but it is very possible mathematically to qualify.

Nigeria only need to win all their remaining games in this group and the chance to qualify will be revived. Nigeria squad is capable of beating every team in this group if they have a good couch who can manage the squad effectively. I think there is no motivation from the couch because it is very obvious that Nigeria is not playing this qualifying game with the same spirit they used to play AFCON. Until it is all over, there chances is not completely dashed.

I think this is for the continent group stages of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. In the African Continent, Group C,  Nigeria will not qualify because their performance is very poor in the time. At least they qualified to play the group stage in the world cup but this time, they will disqualified in the qualifiers stage.

Rwanda, South Africa and Benin Republic has the highest points of 7 each while Lesotho has 5 points and Nigeria 3 points then Zimbabwe has 2 points.