FIFA World Cup 2026 :Canada/Mexico/United States: Discussion Thread

[kro55]

They lost and I didn't read anywhere talking about dismissing the coach, talking about hiring a foreign coach with great experience, talking about giving power to the coach. nothing changed even with defeat, so don't expect something good to come from Brazil in the next 2 years, it will be the same thing that has been seen, they will have difficulties to qualify for the world cup, and even when they reach the world cup they will have difficulties to move on to another stage and not win the World Cup. You can't be optimistic when you don't see concrete good changes

I agree with you. I don't expect much from this team in the next few years either. There is no doubt that Brazil have a very strong squad. Brazil also has some young talent. However, the overall performance of this team is very poor.

I personally think that one of the reasons for Brazil's poor position is the lack of experienced coaches. Brazilian management usually relies on local coaches all the time. But now they should hire an experienced coach. Bonding between players is very weak. If the bonding between the players is not strong then this team cannot expect good performance.

[criptoevangelista]

They lost and I didn't read anywhere talking about dismissing the coach, talking about hiring a foreign coach with great experience, talking about giving power to the coach. nothing changed even with defeat, so don't expect something good to come from Brazil in the next 2 years, it will be the same thing that has been seen, they will have difficulties to qualify for the world cup, and even when they reach the world cup they will have difficulties to move on to another stage and not win the World Cup. You can't be optimistic when you don't see concrete good changes

Today I watched an interview with former Brazilian national team striker Romário. He said exactly what you said and he also added that today's players don't value the World Cup as much as players did in the past. Today they only use it for marketing and to get good contracts. Players don't give their all on the field like they used to. In fact, sports seem to have taken a back seat. If they win, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine too! It's like: it doesn't matter.

[Agbe]

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.

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.

It is very unlikely that Nigeria is going to win all their remaining matches at least From the way I've seen them play, I don't think they have hope to qualify for the world cup. The last match they played resulted in the resignation of their coach finidi George as the NFF raised a lot of concerns, up till now I don't even think they've been able to put themselves together to have a new technical manager for the next qualifying game they to have to play. Nigeria literally drew all their first leg encounter, I don't know how sure their going to win the remaining games they have without a draw or lose.

Left alone with me and with the results on ground, I doubt if they are going to scale through this qualifiers stage being almost at the bottom of the group with just 3 points, I know that this is football anything can happen, but for the Nigerian case, it will likely take a miracle.

Lolz. But we pray that they should do well in their next matches. NFF (NigeriaN Football Federation) is planning to bring back the former Super Eagles coach Jose Peseiro back to the Super Eagles before the next matches but I see that move as a disgrace because you sacked the person because he was incompetent to coach the team but now that there is nobody to coach or head the team and you are going back to abandon or sacked head coach to come and lead the team. Do you think the person would do well? I still  not believe they will qualify in the forthcoming world cup qualifiers.

[Popkon6]

They lost and I didn't read anywhere talking about dismissing the coach, talking about hiring a foreign coach with great experience, talking about giving power to the coach. nothing changed even with defeat, so don't expect something good to come from Brazil in the next 2 years, it will be the same thing that has been seen, they will have difficulties to qualify for the world cup, and even when they reach the world cup they will have difficulties to move on to another stage and not win the World Cup. You can't be optimistic when you don't see concrete good changes

Today I watched an interview with former Brazilian national team striker Romário. He said exactly what you said and he also added that today's players don't value the World Cup as much as players did in the past. Today they only use it for marketing and to get good contracts. Players don't give their all on the field like they used to. In fact, sports seem to have taken a back seat. If they win, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine too! It's like: it doesn't matter.

Basically Brazil team is losing with any team now, their performance is so poor that they are very likely to miss the FIFA World Cup qualifiers this time. Because the five-time World Cup winning Brazil team is now so weak that it has never been eliminated from any World Cup in the past, but is likely to be eliminated in this World Cup. 

Because despite their reputation in the past, they are now performing so shamelessly and fans are getting angry at them. The Brazil team is weakened by the absence of key star Neymar. However, if Neymar returns to this World Cup, then the Brazilian team will definitely be able to perform strongly.

[uneng]

They lost and I didn't read anywhere talking about dismissing the coach, talking about hiring a foreign coach with great experience, talking about giving power to the coach. nothing changed even with defeat, so don't expect something good to come from Brazil in the next 2 years, it will be the same thing that has been seen, they will have difficulties to qualify for the world cup, and even when they reach the world cup they will have difficulties to move on to another stage and not win the World Cup. You can't be optimistic when you don't see concrete good changes

Today I watched an interview with former Brazilian national team striker Romário. He said exactly what you said and he also added that today's players don't value the World Cup as much as players did in the past. Today they only use it for marketing and to get good contracts. Players don't give their all on the field like they used to. In fact, sports seem to have taken a back seat. If they win, that's fine. If they don't, that's fine too! It's like: it doesn't matter.

It's like Endrick said in another recent interview: 'some brazilian players could be already on vacation (from their european teams), but they have come here, because it was their dream (to play and win Copa America). And they have been training here for 30, 40 days, under the sun'.

For many people it sounded like brazilian players consider they are doing a favour or sacrifice by playing at the national team, having to train under the sun for another month, while they could be already on vacation.

If that is what happens, they really don't care about anything at all! If we read between the lines we will see they were actually concerned about their vacations since the beginning, at that is all... It's contradictory, though, that in the past soccer players had much inferior wages, but played more passionated, compared to nowadays where players have huge paychecks, but don't display any passion for what they do.