Topic: FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread - page 9. (Read 44997 times)

I don't know why people still thinks that Messi must be in the squad for Argentina to be sure they have got a good team meanwhile contrary to that Argentina bis still doing well with or without Messi in their squad so it's not a thing to really be reckoned with because it will be only trying to limit Argentina of which they are above such limitations at this time because they still perform brilliantly even in his absence.

Argentina is qualifying again for the world cup and they are doing but without messi so there's actually no limitations of Messi been the reason they would qualify or not, although all through the times he was with them in. The national team, be was very useful to them and his impact on the team is such that can't be over looked but then it still doesn't mean that they are no good squad without Messi, even in the forth coming world cup, they may play without him even tho they may not be able to defend the trophy they may be able to at least get to a very good point in the tournament, probably to the semifinals.

Belgium has got to improve on their positioning and their communication on the pitch, they have got talents with the skill but if they get a better rhythm and oder on the pitch, they will get a much more better squad than they have now but then they actually did their best in the friendlies they did played and I'm hoping they will actually get to improve subsequently probably because this was a friendly it wouldn't be considered that much.

This boy plays very well, and the coolest thing is that his physical form is much better than a 17 year old person, when he is at his peak physical form he will certainly be like a machine, he and Vinicius Junior are the two big bets of Brazil to do well in the next FIFA World Cup. Endrick was directly responsible for the good season of Palmeiras (his club)

Belgium is a so talented team but I can't find the natural game the past match. Both team tried to make goal but no. Ireland missed the panalty Shoot. Atlast match draw into 0-0.

Apparently the Belgian national team missed their best chance in 2014 and 2018. Not only De Bruyne and Lukaku were in their best form there, but also Azar, Carasco, Courtois, Kompany, Vertonghen.
This team was probably the best Belgium national team for many years, but I think the Belgium national team made a mistake with the choice of head coach, in the beginning Wilmots did well, but he got in the way of Argentina and then in 2016 at the Euros was a failure at all, but Martinez could not fully reveal the potential of that star team of Belgium.
Tedesco is doing well so far, but as rightly noted the players he has at his disposal are much weaker than those who played in 2014-2020 for Belgium.

friendly games are completely different from real games, in friendly games players don't take themselves seriously, they save themselves a lot to avoid injuries, that's why someone uses friendly games as a reference that a certain team has improved a lot or can play well without a certain player, and a big mistake. look at the friendly games that many teams played before the last world cup and see that many teams like Brazil had good results in the friendlies before the last world cup and people were even talking a lot about Brazil being champions like they are doing now In this thread they only talk about Brazil, and France didn't have good results in friendly games, but when it came to the serious games, the cup games it was visible as Brazil was nothing, it was a weak team

while Argentina had good results in the friendly games before the World Cup without Di Maria and Messi, during the serious games, the World Cup games it was clear that without Messi and Di Maria Argentina were not strong in attack, even in the game. in the final against France, Argentina was strong while it had Messi and Di Maria, but when Argentina's coach removed Di Maria, Argentina fell a lot and France dominated the game to the point of drawing and then France came very close to winning the The game is all the fault of the Argentine coach who wanted the team to start adapting with younger players in that position.

By this I mean that teams cannot be in a rush to place young players while they have good players who are a certain age but who play much better and perform very well. In the case of Messi, he is a player with a much bigger and better vision of the field, he is not just an attacking player, he can make assists for players better positioned on the field, he can position himself better on the field, in other words Even though Messi is at that age, he is still Argentina's best option in serious games, and Messi is not very old, Messi is 36 years old, he can still play in the next World Cup and perform well

Argentina has a good team even without Messi; but a fit Messi is always a big asset for the team and Argentina has more chance in winning with Messi in the team.
Anyone saw the friendly match of Belgium vs Ireland? Belgium has a talented team but what a bad match was this ?! I hope they can improve for their next matches.

People were still talking about using Mssi in the next World Cup in 2026 and they think Argantina will fail without Messi but that's wrong and it seems from what I can see that Argantina can even have a good performance if they don't have Mess in the team. However, this can be challenging for them but they have been using this player for years.
But in the game between El Salvador and Argentina, we saw a good performance in Argentina and they played without Messi but still, they won the game with a 3-0 result.
Messi was absent because he was injured when he was playing for Inter Miami. The next game for Argantina will be agagsit Costa Rica.

Last time in this thread, I was telling us that when it comes to possessing the best football talents in the world, I don't think there's any nation that have more footballing talents like the South American country and that's why they're the most successful football nation on the planet. Kendrick before yesterday was only known by very few people but after his performance yesterday against the England national team at Wembley, many are now aware that Brazil have such young talented player as their player. He's still a 17 years old but will soon turn to 18 year and from the contract he signed with Real Madrid, he'll join the club after he's turned 18 years of age.
The authorities in charge of the Brazilian national team should as a matter of urgency try to get a good manager that'll blend these young stars and see how far they'll go as a team

In fact, Brazil is a country where you can always find talent and young players in this country but these players need someone to coach them and guide them to have better performance in the team. Endrick is one of these players.
In the game between England and Brazil, Endrick the young, 17-year-old player of Brazil scored the goal for his team ten minutes after he got the chance to play in this math.
This happened in Wembley stadium and now Endrick is the youngest player who scored a goal in Wembley. It was his first goal for Brazil in his life.
I think Real Madrid should be very happy because Vinicius Junior made the assist for this goal.

The work that Rodrigo Caetano does is a kind of behind-the-scenes management, he is a selection coordinator, for example: his role is all about behind-the-scenes planning, such as scheduling games, training, coordinating meetings, presenting players after they are called up to play... Basically, he coordinates strategies off the field. He performs this role very well and in recent years his career has only evolved.

I'm not considering Belgium among top favourites now unfortunately.    They had this golden generation once when the players were having their brightest era. While they can't even win a championship in this situation I wouldn't expect them to do so in Euro 2024 or World Cup 2026. They just need to show me some good football against big teams in these tournaments to give them a chance.

De Bruyne has started to get injured often recently. Lukaku has actually shown really good effort for Belgium these days with many goals.

But if there is no solid teamwork there is no success anyway...

Brazil have many youth talented players and depend with their manager Dorival Júnior brave or not giving them regular position and playing on the first minutes, last match Real Madrid's striker Endrick success give the winning goal against England and make him self on the name list of youth players scoring the goals for senior teams. International friendly match help Brazil return back to the top FIFA ranking after out from ten top position, in other side Dorival Júnior can give more minutes for youth players to get regular position and will be ready for official tournament such as Copa America and FIFA World Cup matches.
Brazil national team have one match left on international break out, after winning against England last match and three days later will face Spain on friendly match, will Dorival Júnior give regular position for Endrick and some youth players in this match?

Brazilian talent is without any doubt one of the best in world, but recently they are having serious trouble into their team due to lack of leadership with they are not alone we are also having problems in few other teams as well but still things are manageable for them because they are having good system which is producing the best players which are providing services in all around the world which is amazing stuff, but their team's performance need good depth and coordination which is important for having good results in top events.
Now we have new coach which is surely going to have some positive impact, and they won their first game as well against England but still its long way to go for them with having good results in Copa América and FIFA World Cup which are more important if they are able to fix things like this hopefully we will have good change and again them at the top.

Brazil has a lot of good players we can say without a doubt and every national team and club level is filled with Brazilian stars. However, the Brazil team is currently in a very bad position in the FIFA rankings, and their position and style of play can only be attributed to their coach. If there is an experienced coach in Brazil, then they will definitely be in a good position in the FIFA ranking and they will have a chance to win the World Cup. All the Brazilian stars are very popular all over the world and they are currently reigning in the big clubs and Brazil is a strong team and they are the highest World Cup winners. But tomorrow's game against England is really good for Brazil because it's really good for Brazil to beat England in England. The Brazilian star's playing system is fine, but if an experienced coach pays more attention to football, the national team will definitely be stronger and have more chances to win the World Cup.

Yes, it is true that the first match, which was home match, allowed Indonesia to maintain one-goal lead until the match was over. With this victory, Indonesia has indeed saved 3 points and is temporarily in second place in Group F standings.
But in the next match Indonesia will play away against Vietnam and I doubt that Indonesia will be able to play well again or even win, the away match against Vietnam is not easy for Indonesia.
We know that Vietnam is one of the strongest teams in the Asian zone and the away match could result in Indonesia losing or only ending in draw, at least if they fail to win then Indonesia will have to hold draw to remain in comfortable position.

After that Indonesia will play against Iraq and also the Philippines, the most difficult is against Iraq which in this match I would never say there is chance for Indonesia to win.
But in the last match against the Philippines, it was clear on paper that Indonesia had the advantage and Indonesia had big opportunity to get full points.

Rodrigo Caetano is having spot of the director of the national teams with he will be work closely national main team and youth as well even there is nothing specific thing about this spot but mostly are saying he will be having spot near to both teams coaches for the improvement of quality and development of the players as well.
Today we have first game under the supervision of the new coach Dorival Junior and Brazil beats first time England at the Wembley which is impressive start for the coach and team even things were not as they needed, but we have the best thing now youngsters are doing good job and feeling confident which is big change for them and surely things will be more improved in coming days for them.

Belgium is not the strong team that we used to know. They have lost so many quality players due to age and the team is finding it difficult to replace them. Players like Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen and Kevin De Bruyne, Witsel and Axel Witsel and Eden Hazard are priceless and younger players like Amadou Onana, Youri Tielemans, Leandro Trossard, Charles De Ketelaere, Doku and Openda have not been able to cover the vacuum of these experienced players. Roberto Martínez led Belgium to great heights but the ageing player and internal conflicts in the team led to its depreciation. I also expect coach Domenico Tedesco to replicate the success of Martinez because he still has access to some quality players but his problem will be how to unite the team to enable them to work in a unity of purpose. I suggest that he should use only players who are in form and not select based on name or past glory.  With his experience from coaching RB Leipzig, Spartak Moscow and Schalke the young coach can make a mark with the Belgian national team in the forthcoming World Cup.    

Yes, Dorival Júnior doesn't have a career out of Brazil at all and this has been the same for Brazil's coach choices for a long time. To tell the truth I don't find this policy very healthy for them in the long run. Because these coaches have no idea about how European national teams play. This is a big obstacle ahead of him to prepare Brazil for the World Cup in the best manner. 

By the way I see Rodrigo Caetano who has become "team manager". What do they mean by this title? Is it like an assistant manager or something else? His career is also full of only Brazilian teams.

Gulf is the rich region, but sadly we have no human rights and many other things which bring better things for the common peoples, so things like these were expected with we have huge investments and too much blood in Qatar while they were preparing for the world cup but no one talk about this because we have deep pockets were involved in this all but now as we are heading for the USA which is one of the developed countries in all aspects surely things will be much better and improved which are positive side of this all with they are going to have many new developments as well which will work for the rest of the world as well because we all know USA is doing good development in all fields which are following for the world.

2026 soccer world cup is going to be game changer because first time we will have 48 countries in this mega event and 3 countries will be host which is another huge development and good for the game because in future we will have too many countries will be tried this way and able to share this all.

There is still Euro to be played before this, and of course each continent has their own, and I think that should show the world which teams are doing fine and which are not. I am not saying this will do good or that will do bad, I am just saying it would be too early to call for anything before that cup.

If you see that cup doing fine, then that team most probably will do fine at world cup too. Since there are only few limited spots and only a few will go out of the group stages, and it is such a rare occasion (once every four years) sometimes unexpected stuff happens. Remember the group stages of the last world cup? So many upsets and so many david vs goliath situations all in the group stages, definitely was weird.