Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 78. (Read 62776 times)

Brazil have announced their squad ahead of the Copa America and everything in the team is fine, except for one person we may miss a lot and that is Neymar Jr. Basically, Neymar Jr. did not get a place in the team due to injury.  Personally, I like Neymar's game and I like Neymar a lot, the performance of Neymar against Argentina in the last Copa America final must be remembered by everyone. I will definitely miss Neymar a lot this Copa America season.  Brazil have always announced their team with their best players and this time was no exception but only Neymar would have been complete.

Usually, whenever a country hosts the World Cup they will earn too much money this is enough for any country to try to be the end host of the World Cup. That's why Saudi Arabia is trying hard for it. They saw Qatar hosted the World Cup and this made them even more interested than before in hosting the World Cup.
They tried to do that by attracting too much attention to their country. They hired Ronaldo and some other superstar players like Neymar and Benzema, this is an investment for Saudi Arabia to earn more if they host the next World Cup. even in the 2026 World Cup, they wanted to try hosting this tournament.

Yeah, it is a bit early but at least CONMEBOL and many other qualifiers have started already.    There is still time for the European qualifiers to start though.



I have been trying to catch up with CONMEBOL qualifiers lately for a reason. It is Brazil's current condition. They have been able to collect only 7 points in 6 matches. This is worrying. There are still 12 more matches of course. However if they go on like this they could even risk their qualification for the main competition.

The new manager is Dorival Júnior and we have only watched 2 friendlies with him. I don't want to state my opinion before watching them in an official competition, but I hope he saves the team from this bad look. 

Saudi Arabia is known as the center of the Muslim community, Islamic law is still strictly maintained there and has certain provisions which are very different from other countries, but for the Middle East region I think it is almost entirely the same.
But now everything is different from few years ago, more modern aspects have been established and some old rules and regulations have been updated to keep up with the times.
Saudi is also known as country that has really improved the quality of sports in various fields, not just football, the development is real and can be seen now growing significantly.
So I think that regarding hosting the World Cup that Saudi Arabia requested will definitely be realized, they have all the various aspects of football development with magnificent stadium at their disposal.
It will be the best World Cup hosting country after Qatar, but that is still quite long way off because they are asking for it in the 2034 World Cup.

The Argentine national team has many good players. Even without Messi, they are capable of winning the World Cup, because when we look at the squad and performance of other national teams, we can see that they are in deep crisis, for example England, they have a good squad, but when they play, They cannot be a strong team capable of beating all their opponents, another example is Brazil, which has a good squad but hires coaches with little experience in national and European teams, so they have a lot of difficulties when they play against World Cup teams. and even teams from South America

on paper it looks like the world cup would be very difficult for argentina without messi, but even if messi was young it could also be difficult if they were unlucky to be in a difficult group and germany, holland and italy got back in shape, but with germany recovering and Italy too, it opens up space for Argentina to not have many decent opponents and with that they can reach the final. In the world cup luck plays a big role for a national team to reach the final and become champion

Since Saudi Arabia want to be host of FIFA World Cup 2034, they have revised many policies to make foreigner more happiness when visiting there, actually I don't think much problem when most of majority Moslem country become the host of World Cup learned how successful in Qatar. There are not any bad issues when some points not allowed there and most interested for the first time of World Cup edition every match full by supporter in Qatar.
Have many European player for the first season as Saudi Arabia club but most of them can adapt well with difference cultures as usually in the European country, I think not debate any more about Saudi Arabia is not friendly country for foreigner and when becoming host of world cup keep becoming success.

On the 31st of October 2023, the current FIFA president Gianni Infantino announced that the 2034 edition of the FIFA World Cup will be hosted by Saudi Arabia so I don't understand how you're still ignorant of the fact that Saudi Arabia hace been confirmed as a future FIFA World Cup host nation. Saudi Arabia just like their Middle East neighbouring country Qatar that host the last edition of the world cup naturally have a harsh weather condition especially for people of Europe descent who aren't accustomed to hot weather. But the fact that Qatar were able to successfully host the FIFA World Cup, it's absolutely possible for Saudi Arabia to do same when it gets to their turn to host the FIFA World Cup tournament.
Cristiano Ronaldo is the most influencial footballer in the world at the moment and I'm sure it was his presence in Saudi Arabian football that helped facilitate the country's quest to be a World Cup host nation.

The investment the Saudi's are putting into sports recently is really worth giving attention because at some point I begin to feel like it's a strategy to get their economy positioned on the world platform in a different way back usually they have a stade on the world economy with their petroleum products but then with sports they are yet to get that fame so they are buying this big players to get the attention shift.

This strategy of the Saudi's is definitely going to gwtt hen the desired results they aim to get where their leagues will be at the same level as that of other European leagues aswell but then they may still have to put in.morw work as they already have the funds to sponsor or getting another soon the saudi league will turn out very competitive with the presence of these European players that are moving over almost every season a d then it will gain the kind of attention they have always wanted for it because that's looking like what they actually aiming to achieve whit all these expensive player purchase.

Once the competition at Saudi Arabia increase and the pay and value of their titles goes up aswell, I'm optimistic in the kind of fans and investors they will be having but the Saudi government will have to make adjustments to be able to accommodate certain persons as they will be coming to do business in Saudi and as well to watch game and promote their leagues so if the condition isn't suitable to them they may have to move.

I don't think if it's confirmed yet that Saudi Arabia is hosting the World Cup yet. Because we know there is Saudi Arabia there is not in a good eather situation and they are far from some European countries also we didn't have good times when one Asian country hosted the World Cup because they spent too much money and human resources on it to get the god result they wanted to get.
In fact, Saudi Arabia was planning for it. When they hired players like Ronaldo for these teams they wanted to attract more attention to host the bigger events like the World Cup.

I didn't know that they want to host the World Cup in summer. I am not impressed by decisions like that. I get why it would demand more organization for the whole tournament and it would require planning on part of the FIFA and UEFA and all other associations to allow for the cup to take place in winter. But in summer it is again such a waste of money to build this massive infrastructure with all this cooling required and so on and so forth. But I guess those who have the money make the rules.

Lionel Messi's big offer from the Saudi league and the interest the team has shown in signing him is perhaps unmatched by any other star. Everything was fine for Lionel Messi but he rejected the club in Saudi Arabia and joined the American club only to live a free life. Neymar came to the Saudi League means Sadio came to the Saudi League and long ago Cristiano Ronaldo came to the Saudi League as well as last season we saw Karim Benzema came to the Saudi League. If Messi came to the Saudi League then maybe the competition would be like the European tournaments. If Messi was in the Saudi League, he might have been able to compete well with Cristiano Ronaldo in all aspects as Cristiano Ronaldo is now the top scorer in the Saudi League including goals.

Well, that's great - right? This Arabian country was not very open to change and they have very different outlook towards women and other way of living. If they are being penetrated with other cultures, I guess, their approach to their beliefs will slowly change for the better. At least, for the benefits of their women, in particular. Just like Ronaldo being in their country, as known to many, he is not yet married to Rodriguez, which is against the law of this country. Living unmarried here should not cohabitate. But I guess, Ronaldo is an exception as he is a foreigner and they asked for him to get in their team.

They have a very ambitious plan, because contrary to what Qatar did, Saudi Arabia is willing to follow the tradition of the World Cup and hold the games between the months of June and July... a time of year when temperatures above 50ºC were recorded there.

On the one hand, I even understand their concern that moving the World Championship to another period could harm the movement of tourists, as Europeans especially are used to going on vacation and traveling in the traditional months of the tournament.

Anyway, despite everything, the competition must in fact be held there because the choice of Saudi Arabia as the organizing country for the 2034 World Cup was conceived as part of a "political scheme" orchestrated by FIFA which, as some here already know, provoked much criticism in international public opinion.
But, in football, money has always been a much stronger motive than the passion for the sport, so... something like this was to be expected again.

I miss a World Cup like the one that took place in the African country... indeed a very beautiful event in which nothing was missing, but absurd amounts were not spent either.

I read about this, they are very interested in being a powerhouse in football and are investing heavily in this, and there are several famous players competing in the Saudi league, I think this is very good, the more competitive leagues the better for us who like football .

The funny thing is that the sheikhs themselves have wild parties with drugs and rock'n roll and what not.

But Ronaldo will certainly not have any issues as being allowed to live a free life was 100% part of the contractual agreements.

What was the plan now, that Saudi Arabia hosts the World Cup in 2034? Was that already decided? But by then I guess Ronaldo won't be playing anymore.

I think with time some of the restrictions will be reviewed because they are aware now that it will definitely affect business as they are aiming to be on the global platform and if they must continue with all their restrictions then they may not be able to have some of their business on the global scale as they would want it to be especially when it has to do with sports just the way they have currently and if they will be able to expand their industry in the sports are to the level where they will be able to get more investors and fans aswell which will further promote their sports a s give it the desired attention the adjustments have to be made so that stars like Ronald a s others can get to fit in well enough in their leagues and play to get them to the point they wish to get to win their sporting activities.

Just like during the world cup that was held in Qatar, some of their restrictions were reviewed a d they made provisions for visitors because they know if they don't then it will be a problem in the long run, one of the adjustments were having an alcohol outlet at a point that was authorized to be the only alcohol spot and it I think consumption too were regulated but it was for the purpose of the game after which I don't know what happened there again.

Talking about the contenders for the next tournament seems to be so early i guess, but if you want in my opinion only the clasics national teams are the contenders like always in the history pf the world cup.

THe minor teams can do nothing in a world cup aside of reaching at his best a semifinal this is a big boys tournament. Only Croatia do a suepr performance being a little team.

In last few years as we have MBS at the top we have some policies are revised which are helpful for the foreigners with we are also having soft policy about Abaya as well which is good so just because of this Cristiano Ronaldo and his family is having no issue here even many are still feeling no comfortable, but things are taking good change, and we will have good development in coming years as we are looking after soccer now they are working on Tennis and Cricket and for this all they need to have softened their policies about women and other things which will surely happen.
Recently we have news Cristiano Ronaldo wants to extend his contract until 2027 which is another development for the many foreigner players those are interested to join this league, and they are doing this all as they are already having world cup rights for the 2034.

Ronaldo doesn't have any issues with staying in Saudi Arabia, but his girlfriend may not be that happy. Saudi laws are more restrictive towards the females. But a lot has changed over the years, ever since Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud came to power. He has envisioned Saudi Arabia transitioning to a modern society, compatible with Islamic values. Movie theatres and shopping malls are opening all over the country. Also the crown price wants to transform Saudi Arabia to a global sports hub.

Argentina had one of the greatest players of all time, but they managed to put a decent squad around him on the last world cup and that's how they won. Now Messi would be too old, meaning that they are going to need even better players around him but that seems like not going to happen at all.

So, we shouldn't really consider this as an issue and we should definitely take a look at it like it is the most normal thing ever for them to lose. I mean a team can't win it all the time, how many teams ever won back to back? Not many recently at least, so we could just not expect much from them. France still looks strong, they have a young good squad, maybe they will do fine, or maybe England could do something finally. All in all, I think there are at least 3-4 teams that can win it.