Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 77. (Read 66184 times)

Talking about Brazil, they are not the same as the Brazil we saw in the last years because Brazil had players like Pele and Ronaldo in the team while now they don't have these players and they can't have a true leader in this team. While I think now Brazil should make many changes in the teamwork because of the players they lost. Now this team how only players like Neymar and Vini and the lack of a true leader is the main problem in Brazil.
That's why I said before they needed to hire a better coach instead of Dorival Júnior.
 
 

The thing is that Brazil is the only country in the world that has qualified to every single world cup.

Brazil also has won the most world cups than anyone in the world.

Of course you can't always win every single match, but Brazil is clearly one of the best teams in the world, and sure, they might have a few good matches, but they are still going to classify.

Less creativities of attacking midfielder I think main problem of Brazil downtrend performance at the first Copa America 2024 match after being draw against Costa Rica.
Indeed more dominance with ball possession but Brazil less created attempt or shots on goals after not top perform their attacking line players Vinicius Jr and Rorygo. But too early comparison the first match of Brazil in Copa America after failure get the winning match result behind have many matches left and potential Brazil will play more aggressive on second match against Paraguay.

Brazil had many top talent attacking line but the main problem how they can get service well from holding midfielder, looks with Rorygo and Vinicius Jr performance with Real Madrid in this season both of them contributed well for winning La Liga and Champion League trophies. But with national team both of them can't get well service such as with Real Madrid and difficult for scoring goals, I believe for next match Vinicius Jr or Rodrygo will score the goals if get good service from attacking midfielder.

Brazil experiencing a decline in achievement because they never reach to the final matches of this competition for almost 20 years although Brazil can able to produce plenty of talented players but it is not makes them can gets the trophies even Brazil journey in the last 2 world cup is compeletely messed up at that time their status as the favourite of this competition but Brazil was unable to play as people expected even on world up 2022 Brazil was lost from Croatia in the quarterfinal stages

For qualification stages on CONMEBOL zone Brazil only can occupy 6th places from 2 wins and 3 loses even in Copa America too Brazil performance is not really impressive and the latest in Brazil only playing draw from Costa Rica and i think this proves that Brazil is not in their form and i have to says the current generation is one of the worst in Brazil's history in world football because they were very often to lost even against Colombia and Venezuela they unable to beat these teams and if want to advances to world cup 2026 their current manager Dorival Junior have to solved these problem immediatelly

we can't totally judge what this Brazil team is capable of doing from just this first Copa America match. We've seen other strong teams like England that has better individual players and that have played at least three consecutive matches still struggling to play well and score goals even though they have good players and good goal scorers in the team. If after there next encounter against Paraguay on Saturday they still struggle to score goals, then we can assume they aren't playing to expectation. So far, apart from scoring goals, they've actually shown dominance and played so well. What's just missing is thier ability to score goals that will give them all three points and I'm hoping that vini and Rodrygo would bring up the show and give Brazil the victory we've been waiting for . Though sitting on the second spot of the table, the Brazilian team can easily bounce back to topping thier group before they proceed to the knock out phase of the tournament and even at the knockout stage, the major threat I'm seeing is just Uruguay.

In reality, the Saudis make sport very important and they develop everything well, not only football, but it cannot be denied that football is the most dominant and is the focus in its development.
Now Saudi is considered country that is truly serious about the development of world football, they have acquired many team from Europe and others, even though it is considered as business, at least this proves that Saudi is not playing around.
SPL alone can be small proof of how great the support is which always pours out large amounts of money, there is no doubt and no thoughts of losses.
This is what makes Saudi country worthy enough to host the World Cup in the future, and with good financial support it can also help FIFA make it easier for the competition to take place.

Now this is what is interesting, some people will consider the Euro and Copa America champions as national team that has the potential to be successful in the World Cup, but on the other hand I not satisfied with this assumption even though there is slight sense of agreement with the existing expectations.
It just that those who win the Euro and Copa America are the best and can definitely show performance that is far superior to several other team.

Brazil does not have a captain who has high enthusiasm, this is very different from previous Brazil. Haven't seen a Brazil team like that since the 2002 World Cup. Very confident and enjoying themselves thoroughly. Entertaining the world with their beautiful football. But now they have talented players but no unity at all.

So it is not surprising that in the Copa America they were held to a draw by Costa Rica, whose squad and game were favored by Brazil, but Brazil's performance so far is still disappointing. How many world cups have they been in but they were unable to reach the final, most recently at the world cup in Qatar they were only able to reach the quarter-finals at the 2026 World Cup. If Brazil didn't have goal-hungry strikers like Pele and Ronaldo. I'm not sure Brazil will be the favorite in the next world cup, or as you would expect, will perform the best version in the world cup. The reason is that Brazil is famous for its game which relies on deadly attackers on the front lines and what is currently happening is that Brazil does not yet have attackers like that, in fact many Brazilian players currently only play individually, not as a team.

What a disapointing match played by Brazil yesterday on the america cup played in USA, i think if they want to come back like the super power they allways were need to refresh and wake up fast, this team is not like the tipical brasilian team of samba and "jogo bonito" and plus is very weak in defense.

Until now not a good america cup in USA, i hope to see a better version for the world cup, im talking about stadiums and people.

Well, when these are neighboring countries, I don’t see anything wrong with it; practice has shown that such tournaments are successful. But the 2030 World Cup will be more twisted - the opening 3 games will be in Latin America, and the remaining games will be in Portugal, Spain and Morocco. This doesn't seem normal to me. Let's say that Morocco and Spain are located next to each other on the map, but their climate is significantly different. Will players be happy to play football at the highest level and with the constant climate change when changing countries? I think this will create a serious imbalance - let's say one team needs to change countries for the next game and the other does not.

It's going to be interesting to see that world cup, happening in three different countries.

Visas will be a tricky subject around that time.

I remember Korea-Japan 2002, and it was actually quite OK. Hopefully they manage to do a great tournament.

FIFA has always been thoroughly corrupt, but now that the petrocountries have become interested in football, it has become obvious to everyone. Unfortunately, something can only change with more global changes than we can expect: football should be managed not by officials, but by business. Ideally, it should be like with the NHL - this is the main hockey league and it is more important than the World Cup or the Olympics. Therefore, I hope that the creation of the Super League will still happen in the coming years and this will serve as the first step in throwing officials out of business.

We already have too much talk about this all with things are not going to take changes because these Gulf Countries are having strong influence in all departments, and they are using this all for their own as well even too many concerns about few countries but still they are having all things with after Qatar now Saudi Arab is also going to host soccer world cup recently we have few things which were showing they are doing good job for the big events but it's still far away from this all, and we can't change this culture in few years.

FIFA is currently one of the strongest sporting organization with too much control around the world but now mostly are having big corruption cases and many other things which are clearly showing how they are managing this all and what could be the outcome of this all.

As I understand it, there are cultural differences between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, but still they are much closer to each other than to conventionally European culture. Therefore, I don’t even know what’s worse: the 2030 World Cup which will take place on three continents (lol) or the 2034 World Cup which will be similar to the Qatar World Cup. Once again I am convinced that officials are sick bastards and should be kept away from managing anything; I think business would never make such moronic decisions.

I think the key lies in financial strength, where I am sure Saudi will be successful in holding the 2034 World Cup. For now, we can clearly see that Saudi is in the process of improving the quality of football, they are trying to build the Saudi Pro League to be more competitive, and are trying to build a stadium with more complete facilities.

Thus, perhaps Saudi fate could be a little better than Qatar, because they have had a long time to build everything well. In the next ten years, with the quality of the League getting better, Saudi will produce its own golden generation. Gradually Saudi will continue to invest in football, and slowly they will develop for the better.

2034 is still a long time away, we will first see the 2026 edition in America, Canada and Mexico. Meanwhile, currently, we are being presented with the Copa America and the Euros. I think these two tournaments will produce the favorite teams in the next edition of the World Cup, we'll see who will emerge as champions.

Yes, there is still plenty of time to start preparing everything, and the preparations that must be made are to start repairing several main stadiums even though I sure Saudi has many very luxurious stadiums and also some very good service venues.
Maybe this will record new history as the host of the most luxurious and best World Cup after Qatar, Saudi has enormous financial support to support the 2034 World Cup competition running very smoothly and comfortably.
But the most important thing is that Saudi will get ticket to be able to compete in this most prestigious event and Saudi will definitely be very happy to be able to take part, even if in the end they will also be the same as Qatar, where they fall faster.

Yes, in the 2026 World Cup we will see the competition being held in 3 different countries, maybe this could affect the performance of each team because they have to move between each match, but who knows what the concept of the match will be but I sure FIFA will organize it well.

What makes you so confident that their football league will grow splendidly in the upcoming years? Is there any research on their football development progress? I found one research focusing more on its cultural impact, which claims football has helped Saudi Arabia become more moderate in recent years but nothing about their national football development goal[1]. Other reports suggest that they still have a lot of things to do to make the league appealing to viewers and international players[2]. Another report suggests a more positive outlook, highlighting the increase in youth players' participation in the league[3]. Some biases affect the analysis so it's hard to say for sure unless we can more data and reports (plus identify which media has heavy biases).

[1] https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=irhs
[2] https://www.brecorder.com/news/40303174
[3] https://www.grc.net/single-commentary/81

Does the Saudi Arabia sides see the fact that money is the most they have got an issues, I believe they are even beginning to capitalize on the fact that money is the most they have got ,to restructuring their football, buying super stars from English teams and even European teams so as to strengthen their teams and then gradually get their player to learn from these big names and that way they will be gradually building their leagues to the point they may not be needing those top players they brought in any more, probably they most have gotten holed of the athletic business and understood and participate d more in it on daily basis.

The Saudi side is actually growing a very formidable league that will soon turn out to be the envy of the others and ofcourse in the coming years ahead, the chance that they will be able to have built a very standard league that can contest the European leagues is something that will be supersing. The Arab sides will definitely get attention of they request to boat the world cup because by then they must ha e built good reputation around football which will include both infrastructure and the league strength, they will be considered because they have increased their Chances and odds by putting things together long before it will be needed. 

I couldn't agree more. Like I said yesterday, the fact that the folks at Saudi Arabia are constantly attracting and bringing the top talents to the league is a really big deal because if these talents have a good influence on their players, it would make a great deal for their national team. Btw, I didn't know Saudi has been picked for the 2034 world cup — I did a quick Google search to confirm. I believe by the time it gets to 2034, Saudi would be ranked nicely in world football. Probably not among the best teams but somewhere in between will do since it's still a young football nation.

The 2034 World Cup is still far off, giving Saudi Arabia plenty of time to get ready. If we look at what Qatar has done, pouring huge amounts of money into creating amazing stadiums and infrastructure, it is highly probable that Saudi Arabia will follow suit. The World Cup in 2034 will be the result of these preparations: it looms large on the horizon.

The distinction though, is starkly different from the 2026 World Cup. In 2026, the event will be hosted across multiple nations, with some like the United States already well equipped with sports facilities. As such, they do not need to invest heavily in new infrastructure; this allows them the capacity to direct more attention towards organizing and executing prosperous events.

They got 10 years to get ready for this great event. I'm sure just like what we saw in the past in Qatar when they were hosting the World Cup, Saudi Arabia will also spend too much money and try to build fantastic stadiums to get ready for the 2034 World Cup.
But the good thing is 2026 we are going to see the World Cup hosted in multiple countries including America where they have enough sports facilities to not spend a huge amount of money for it.