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

[fullhdpixel]

The problem is not money. Here in Africa we have many natural resources. The problem lies with the corrupt people who govern African countries. They take the money from taxes that people pay and from natural resources and put it in their pockets and do not develop the sport. Even when some players go to play in Europe, these African football leaders demand money and make threats in order for them to go and play in Europe. When the players are already playing abroad, many are also charged money in order to be invited to play for the national team. To make the sequence of sad and shameful things that have been happening in African football even worse, the prize money given by African governments to players when they win something is very low, while FIFA pays a very high amount for winning a competition. So this really demotivates the players. I believe that the greatest motivation for African players when they play for the national team is their love for their country. But they are also afraid of getting injured when playing for the national team because they don't earn anything while in Europe they are paid very well.

As we are talking about few things which are not related to this world cup but still I have to give few points we are having African and Asian regions full of natural resources, and they are having good potential to do things as we are having in developing countries but greediness and personal egos are bigger here in this region, and we are not able to do things through table talk which is the best way of ending all conflicts and many big countries are also having their own interest so they never allow us to do things as we needed.

We are having good potential in soccer to bring good team and having good results, but sadly we fail to develop system and falling behind badly few countries are giving their best but still as organizations we are not able to bring good things in Africa and Asia which is surely big failure for them and for the youths of these regions.

[jaberwock]

Brazil, Germany, France - they're the titans of the World Cup. Why? Infrastructure. They offer the leagues, the junior systems, the entire shebang. The issue is, though, avoid sleeping on the underdogs. Africa boasts unvarnished skill. We are discussing actual potential here. Indeed, the leagues are less developed and the funds are not always available. But take a look at the African players leaving. They are illuminating the top teams in Europe. That event? That reflects the national team

Morocco in 2022 was a great event. The gap's closing. The next World Cup, big boys are still favorites. But an upset is not just possible, it's getting more likely every year. Keeping your eyes open will help. Talent is all around. The World Cup will soon become much more fascinating

To be fair money made in the football world is a lot, and Brazil is normally not some hugely wealthy nation, and most of the football players out of there are not rich people, I can think of Kaka who was rich, but aside from that most of them are poor kids coming from poor families and they make millions and in return they do help their nation and the football structure as well, at least most of them.

Same is now happening with Africa, they have been decent at football for a while, but the money there and the scouting wasn't that huge, only for very known places. Now that kids are growing up, they are getting transfers to Europe, and spending that money back on building football schools back in their hometowns, there will be more and more people who will make it out as a rich person out of there. However, even with all of that, Europe and Latin America will stay the most powerful in world cup, it's clear that they know what they are doing.

[Fiatless]

Brazil, Germany, France - they're the titans of the World Cup. Why? Infrastructure. They offer the leagues, the junior systems, the entire shebang. The issue is, though, avoid sleeping on the underdogs. Africa boasts unvarnished skill. We are discussing actual potential here. Indeed, the leagues are less developed and the funds are not always available. But take a look at the African players leaving. They are illuminating the top teams in Europe. That event? That reflects the national team

Morocco in 2022 was a great event. The gap's closing. The next World Cup, big boys are still favorites. But an upset is not just possible, it's getting more likely every year. Keeping your eyes open will help. Talent is all around. The World Cup will soon become much more fascinating

Most of the players in the national team of my country were born in Europe. Meanwhile, we have local talents that can do better than these Western-raised players. The reason is that these foreign-based players are more exposed and technically sound. They understand modern trends in football because they are trained with advanced infrastructure and coached by qualified managers. Africa and other developing world have raw talents but they are relying on advanced countries to refine these players and bring the best out of them.

The Northen Afrian local league is the best in Africa. Their clubs are well-managed and pay players reasonably. Some of the players in the national team play in the local league which shows the level of development. This is why we are seeing Morrocco doing exploits at the international level. South Africa should have been another force in African football due to the high standard of the local league. But the Bafana Bafana have not lived up to expectations.         

[iBaba]

As we are talking about few things which are not related to this world cup but still I have to give few points we are having African and Asian regions full of natural resources, and they are having good potential to do things as we are having in developing countries but greediness and personal egos are bigger here in this region, and we are not able to do things through table talk which is the best way of ending all conflicts and many big countries are also having their own interest so they never allow us to do things as we needed.

We are having good potential in soccer to bring good team and having good results, but sadly we fail to develop system and falling behind badly few countries are giving their best but still as organizations we are not able to bring good things in Africa and Asia which is surely big failure for them and for the youths of these regions.

As an African, I get emotional sometimes when we talk about soccer and Africa and how we battle for relevance in all walks of life especially in the international community. We have many talented players who have done exceptionally well in their professional football career and are still doing great things today.

The likes of Samuel Eto'o, Didier Drogba, Mikel Obi among other top and legendary players in the world. Now we have top rising stars like Victor Osimhen of Napoli and Nigeria, Mohammed Sallah of Liverpool and Egypt, Victor Boniface of Bayer Leverkusen and Nigeria, Achraf Hakimi of PSG and Morocco, Andre Onana of Manchester United and Cameroon, Sofyan Ambarat of Manchester United and Morocco, Mohammed Kudu of West Ham and Ghana, and Mahrez of Al Ahli and Algeria.

[Forsyth Jones]

Despite its bad phase, brazil has won 5 World Cups, but if its football doesn't improve or evolve in line with European football, it could be overtaken by Germany or Italy, which are the only nations behind brazil in terms of number of World Cups won.

Does Brazil rely on its national league to produce their best players? I though most of them are playing overseas. I don't remember where but I read that country like Brazil or African countries in general improve their national team quality by making it easy for them to play overseas, hence why they don't focus on national league etc. I think this strategy works to some extent, hence why some countries also focuses on nationalizing players or sending their players abroad. That being said, it doesn't matter if their national infrastructure is still terrible. CMIIW.

It turns out that the national league doesn't pay as well as European football etc., so legendary players are revealed in national clubs, but after around 01 year or more, they end up receiving offers from giant clubs to play for their country.

They end up returning to play in national leagues when they are close to retirement, it was like that with 'Ronaldinho gaúcho', 'Ronaldo fenomeno', etc.

[Hanadawa]

There is one team in this group that I want to be able to show big surprise and that is Indonesia, they now have more naturalized players and that can help significantly.

Talking about the chances in Group C I think Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia are the strongest candidates to advance to the next round. They are the football powers in Asia and they are in the same group. And you are right, Indonesia is currently in the spotlight because they naturalized players. This has changed Indonesia's strength and I think they are the best team in Southeast Asia right now. As far as I know, they are the only team from Southeast Asia to advance to the third round of the Asian World Cup qualifiers. But the most realistic result is that they are ranked third or fourth and if they are lucky, they will be able to advance to the 2026 World Cup in the next round.

[Leviathan.007]

There is one team in this group that I want to be able to show big surprise and that is Indonesia, they now have more naturalized players and that can help significantly.

Talking about the chances in Group C I think Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia are the strongest candidates to advance to the next round. They are the football powers in Asia and they are in the same group. And you are right, Indonesia is currently in the spotlight because they naturalized players. This has changed Indonesia's strength and I think they are the best team in Southeast Asia right now. As far as I know, they are the only team from Southeast Asia to advance to the third round of the Asian World Cup qualifiers. But the most realistic result is that they are ranked third or fourth and if they are lucky, they will be able to advance to the 2026 World Cup in the next round.

I'm not still sure about it but think there are three teams that will get to the World Cup and these teams as you said but a better chance however the only thing they have in Saudi Arabia is money and they still don't have strong teams like Australia and Japan while I think Japand and Australia are both in the better situation to get themselves other first two places of the table. Australia and Japan are two teams that were usually in the World Cup from Asia.

[lixer]

Does Brazil rely on its national league to produce their best players? I though most of them are playing overseas. I don't remember where but I read that country like Brazil or African countries in general improve their national team quality by making it easy for them to play overseas, hence why they don't focus on national league etc. I think this strategy works to some extent, hence why some countries also focuses on nationalizing players or sending their players abroad. That being said, it doesn't matter if their national infrastructure is still terrible. CMIIW.

It turns out that the national league doesn't pay as well as European football etc., so legendary players are revealed in national clubs, but after around 01 year or more, they end up receiving offers from giant clubs to play for their country.

They end up returning to play in national leagues when they are close to retirement, it was like that with 'Ronaldinho gaúcho', 'Ronaldo fenomeno', etc.

Most of the national leagues in Africa, Asia and South America are not able to give salaries and other packages like we have in Europe, so mostly players love to cash out this and having good earnings and bonuses which allow them to spend good life after retirement so it's their right because we have to understand skills and talent can bring good money for them.

But, national leagues can do good as they are having youths teams with these they can bring talent and after development sending them to big leagues is also helpful for countries because with this money will be flow, and they will be able to do better things for the domestic leagues.

Even this is not easy job but still we are having good chance in Africa because now soccer is having good growth in this region, and they can go ahead with some long term projects for many countries.

[criptoevangelista]

Despite its bad phase, brazil has won 5 World Cups, but if its football doesn't improve or evolve in line with European football, it could be overtaken by Germany or Italy, which are the only nations behind brazil in terms of number of World Cups won.

Does Brazil rely on its national league to produce their best players? I though most of them are playing overseas. I don't remember where but I read that country like Brazil or African countries in general improve their national team quality by making it easy for them to play overseas, hence why they don't focus on national league etc. I think this strategy works to some extent, hence why some countries also focuses on nationalizing players or sending their players abroad. That being said, it doesn't matter if their national infrastructure is still terrible. CMIIW.

It turns out that the national league doesn't pay as well as European football etc., so legendary players are revealed in national clubs, but after around 01 year or more, they end up receiving offers from giant clubs to play for their country.

They end up returning to play in national leagues when they are close to retirement, it was like that with 'Ronaldinho gaúcho', 'Ronaldo fenomeno', etc.

European clubs are increasingly looking for young players in Brazil, as seen in the case of Endrick and even Vinicius Jr, who were signed when they were still under 18. Even if a Brazilian team pays the same as a European team, there is a difference in structure. After all, who is going to stop playing for Real Madrid to stay in Brazil? The players also think about their entire family, living in a first world country, with less violence, more structure, everything is better....

[Lidger]

Despite its bad phase, brazil has won 5 World Cups, but if its football doesn't improve or evolve in line with European football, it could be overtaken by Germany or Italy, which are the only nations behind brazil in terms of number of World Cups won.

Does Brazil rely on its national league to produce their best players? I though most of them are playing overseas. I don't remember where but I read that country like Brazil or African countries in general improve their national team quality by making it easy for them to play overseas, hence why they don't focus on national league etc. I think this strategy works to some extent, hence why some countries also focuses on nationalizing players or sending their players abroad. That being said, it doesn't matter if their national infrastructure is still terrible. CMIIW.

Footballers play a major role in Brazil's economy. At the moment, the Brazilian team is considered the most expensive team in the world. And while Brazilian players perform well for different clubs, when they are put together when they play for a team, I don't know why we don't see good performances from them. It is very likely that when a team has multiple players in the same position, it becomes difficult for the manager to select the team and this results in poor team performance. You say they should play European tactics, where their team's starting eleven players as well as all other players play in Europe, what new tactics do they have to teach them. Brazil players definitely need an experienced manager otherwise we will not see good performance from Brazil team.

[criptoevangelista]

Despite its bad phase, brazil has won 5 World Cups, but if its football doesn't improve or evolve in line with European football, it could be overtaken by Germany or Italy, which are the only nations behind brazil in terms of number of World Cups won.

Does Brazil rely on its national league to produce their best players? I though most of them are playing overseas. I don't remember where but I read that country like Brazil or African countries in general improve their national team quality by making it easy for them to play overseas, hence why they don't focus on national league etc. I think this strategy works to some extent, hence why some countries also focuses on nationalizing players or sending their players abroad. That being said, it doesn't matter if their national infrastructure is still terrible. CMIIW.

Footballers play a major role in Brazil's economy. At the moment, the Brazilian team is considered the most expensive team in the world. And while Brazilian players perform well for different clubs, when they are put together when they play for a team, I don't know why we don't see good performances from them. It is very likely that when a team has multiple players in the same position, it becomes difficult for the manager to select the team and this results in poor team performance. You say they should play European tactics, where their team's starting eleven players as well as all other players play in Europe, what new tactics do they have to teach them. Brazil players definitely need an experienced manager otherwise we will not see good performance from Brazil team.

The biggest problem with the Brazilian national team is the Brazilian coaches, who are completely unqualified. Although the CBF tried to hire Carlo Anceloti, no elite coach in world football would ever accept to coach the Brazilian national team, because the highest authority in Brazilian football is completely corrupt. I don't think a good foreign coach would accept to work in a place like the CBF.

[Docnaster]

Despite its bad phase, brazil has won 5 World Cups, but if its football doesn't improve or evolve in line with European football, it could be overtaken by Germany or Italy, which are the only nations behind brazil in terms of number of World Cups won.

Brazil style of football is absolutely different from that of European football but on several occasions, we've seen Brazilian style of football  get the better of European teams until recently that they've been facing elimination from the FIFA World Cup from European teams. They're still the most successful football nation at the moment as they're the only country to have won the FIFA World Cup in 5 different occasions. Like you said, there's a possibility that they might be overtaken by European teams but there's also a possibility that Brazil might win the FIFA World Cup again to add their tally. In terms of talents, Brazil possesses the best talents any national team can boost of and I believe they'll perform better in big tournaments of they can get a good manager who will assemble these world class talents and make them play like a team. 

[Hirose UK]

There is one team in this group that I want to be able to show big surprise and that is Indonesia, they now have more naturalized players and that can help significantly.

Talking about the chances in Group C I think Japan, Australia and Saudi Arabia are the strongest candidates to advance to the next round. They are the football powers in Asia and they are in the same group. And you are right, Indonesia is currently in the spotlight because they naturalized players. This has changed Indonesia's strength and I think they are the best team in Southeast Asia right now. As far as I know, they are the only team from Southeast Asia to advance to the third round of the Asian World Cup qualifiers. But the most realistic result is that they are ranked third or fourth and if they are lucky, they will be able to advance to the 2026 World Cup in the next round.

Indeed, those are the 3 strongest team but what is certain is Japan, they are certain to be the top of group C with the top position Japan will be the team that can certainly enter the real competition later.
But for Indonesia, which is currently also being discussed as fairly tough team with the strength of naturalized players, so there is possibility for Indonesia to be able to match team like Australia and Saudi Arabia, let just see what Indonesia will give in this third round.
What is clear is that for the first match Indonesia will play against Saudi Arabia and after that there is Australia, in this match Indonesia will play away with Saudi Arabia and then play at home against Australia.
This is difficult start for Indonesia considering that their first two matches will face among the strongest team in Asia.

[AirtelBuzz]

Despite its bad phase, brazil has won 5 World Cups, but if its football doesn't improve or evolve in line with European football, it could be overtaken by Germany or Italy, which are the only nations behind brazil in terms of number of World Cups won.

Does Brazil rely on its national league to produce their best players? I though most of them are playing overseas. I don't remember where but I read that country like Brazil or African countries in general improve their national team quality by making it easy for them to play overseas, hence why they don't focus on national league etc. I think this strategy works to some extent, hence why some countries also focuses on nationalizing players or sending their players abroad. That being said, it doesn't matter if their national infrastructure is still terrible. CMIIW.

Footballers play a major role in Brazil's economy. At the moment, the Brazilian team is considered the most expensive team in the world. And while Brazilian players perform well for different clubs, when they are put together when they play for a team, I don't know why we don't see good performances from them. It is very likely that when a team has multiple players in the same position, it becomes difficult for the manager to select the team and this results in poor team performance. You say they should play European tactics, where their team's starting eleven players as well as all other players play in Europe, what new tactics do they have to teach them. Brazil players definitely need an experienced manager otherwise we will not see good performance from Brazil team.

Yes that's right we see several Brazil team players playing in different clubs around the world who are constantly performing well there. Currently playing for Real Madrid club, Vinicius Junior who has been performing exceptionally well is even a worthy contender for the Ballon d'Or. Apart from him is Barcelona's Rafinha who scored the first hat-trick of his football career a few days ago. They have performed well in every match in the club level games but their performance has been shaky when it comes to the national team. The only way for Brazilian footballers to get out of this situation is that they need a competent leader i.e. a competent coach who will reshape this team and bring it back to a strong form.

Brazil legend Ronaldinho commented on the recently held Copa America that Brazil is the worst team I have ever seen. He even said that he is not willing to watch Brazil play in this Copa America. It is possible that he was forced to make such a comment because of the current poor performance of the Brazilian team.

[bering]

Brazil this time will have 2 matches for world cup qualification stages and they will fight against Ecuador at home and playing against Paraguay for away match and just like we all know that Brazil is not in the good shape because after failed in Copa America their position on league table of qualification stages also not really good because Brazil only can earn 7 points from 6 matches so the fans hopes Brazil can gets full points from Ecuador and Paraguay

Recently Brazil has been release the players who will playing against Ecuador and Paraguay and i found interesting name Estêvão and he is the rising star of Palmeiras and still 17 years old but his performance with Palmeiras is very impressive because he can scores 8 goals from 21 matches and looking forward to see whether he will make his debut match or not later and here is the list of Brazilian players below

[Webetcoins]

It will raise the level of awareness in the country and naturally they will get better.  But I don't think it will change their national team much in the near term.  It takes generations to change a culture and in sports increase awareness is the first step.  More amd more top players will go there because they are using government money to pay these salaries so they are playing with a loaded deck.

National team and domestic league are completely different things with if they want to have improvement in national team they need to work on their system with youth competitions and other related stuff can bring good improvement because its also works.

But this needed good dedication and strong management even they are now changing many things in this country which are positive but it's still going to take time because we can't bring changes in few years as things are going on for centuries new generation is having good motivations, and they are stick about their vision which is good point right now.

When compared to other regions such as America, Africa or Europe, Asia is the largest continent and is divided into 4 regions, namely West Asia, East Asia, Middle East and Southeast Asia. This is a very large and vast region and as you said, it will be very difficult for all regions to unite and form one league to compete like Europe. For example, Southeast Asia has a local competition outside the FIFA calendar, namely the AFF Cup. This makes it difficult for each region to compete with each other except in the Asian Cup or Asian Games.

AFC can bring good changes even this is not easy but if they are able then surely we can have good revolutionary development in this region's soccer because if AFC able to bring all countries on one table and having their one or two events for all countries like UEFA also help them for having their domestic leagues well organized this is surely brought good revenue and other things which are essential for them and this region could be having good potential for soccer.

Because, we have this is second most popular sport in this region after cricket which is having strong base in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, but they can bring good for all regions specially in West and Central which are already doing good work for the development of this game.

[criptoevangelista]

Despite its bad phase, brazil has won 5 World Cups, but if its football doesn't improve or evolve in line with European football, it could be overtaken by Germany or Italy, which are the only nations behind brazil in terms of number of World Cups won.

Does Brazil rely on its national league to produce their best players? I though most of them are playing overseas. I don't remember where but I read that country like Brazil or African countries in general improve their national team quality by making it easy for them to play overseas, hence why they don't focus on national league etc. I think this strategy works to some extent, hence why some countries also focuses on nationalizing players or sending their players abroad. That being said, it doesn't matter if their national infrastructure is still terrible. CMIIW.

Footballers play a major role in Brazil's economy. At the moment, the Brazilian team is considered the most expensive team in the world. And while Brazilian players perform well for different clubs, when they are put together when they play for a team, I don't know why we don't see good performances from them. It is very likely that when a team has multiple players in the same position, it becomes difficult for the manager to select the team and this results in poor team performance. You say they should play European tactics, where their team's starting eleven players as well as all other players play in Europe, what new tactics do they have to teach them. Brazil players definitely need an experienced manager otherwise we will not see good performance from Brazil team.

Yes that's right we see several Brazil team players playing in different clubs around the world who are constantly performing well there. Currently playing for Real Madrid club, Vinicius Junior who has been performing exceptionally well is even a worthy contender for the Ballon d'Or. Apart from him is Barcelona's Rafinha who scored the first hat-trick of his football career a few days ago. They have performed well in every match in the club level games but their performance has been shaky when it comes to the national team. The only way for Brazilian footballers to get out of this situation is that they need a competent leader i.e. a competent coach who will reshape this team and bring it back to a strong form.

Brazil legend Ronaldinho commented on the recently held Copa America that Brazil is the worst team I have ever seen. He even said that he is not willing to watch Brazil play in this Copa America. It is possible that he was forced to make such a comment because of the current poor performance of the Brazilian team.

I think he was quite sincere when he said it was the worst team ever. I've been following the Brazilian team since 1996, and I've watched several generations of players and several different Brazilian teams. And I say that this current Brazilian team is truly the worst of all time. It manages to surpass the horrible teams from the time of coach Emerson Leao and Mano Menezes... It's sad to see a country full of potential in football and that produces some of the best players in the world have such a mediocre team.

[LUCKMCFLY]

I think he was quite sincere when he said it was the worst team ever. I've been following the Brazilian team since 1996, and I've watched several generations of players and several different Brazilian teams. And I say that this current Brazilian team is truly the worst of all time. It manages to surpass the horrible teams from the time of coach Emerson Leao and Mano Menezes... It's sad to see a country full of potential in football and that produces some of the best players in the world have such a mediocre team.

Well many have said such a thing, it's strange, for me Brazil has very good players, of course the only one who still has the "joga bonito" is Neymar Jr and I don't know if things can be done better, but for me the question here of the Brazil problem is a coach who can Integrate all the skills of the players and do magic with them, it's incredible, for me the most important thing is that a team has good players, and they're not bad, they're very good, so I think that things should go in the right direction and only a good coach can achieve that, for me that's the solution for Brazil.

[joniboini]

Didn't Ronaldinho backtrack on his comments though[1]? He basically said what he said about those players are a bait to get people talk about it seriously. Not sure what to take from his comment. Even if we say the team is one of the worst team ever, surely the fault lies in the player selection/manager instead of the players? Because if that's not valid, how can we say the country is full of great players. Personally, I feel like a team with terrible tactic is a better term to describe Brazil, if there's no change at all in the future. CMIIW.

[1] https://sports.yahoo.com/barcelona-legend-ronaldinho-backtracks-brazil-083000967.html

[Lidger]

Despite its bad phase, brazil has won 5 World Cups, but if its football doesn't improve or evolve in line with European football, it could be overtaken by Germany or Italy, which are the only nations behind brazil in terms of number of World Cups won.

Does Brazil rely on its national league to produce their best players? I though most of them are playing overseas. I don't remember where but I read that country like Brazil or African countries in general improve their national team quality by making it easy for them to play overseas, hence why they don't focus on national league etc. I think this strategy works to some extent, hence why some countries also focuses on nationalizing players or sending their players abroad. That being said, it doesn't matter if their national infrastructure is still terrible. CMIIW.

Footballers play a major role in Brazil's economy. At the moment, the Brazilian team is considered the most expensive team in the world. And while Brazilian players perform well for different clubs, when they are put together when they play for a team, I don't know why we don't see good performances from them. It is very likely that when a team has multiple players in the same position, it becomes difficult for the manager to select the team and this results in poor team performance. You say they should play European tactics, where their team's starting eleven players as well as all other players play in Europe, what new tactics do they have to teach them. Brazil players definitely need an experienced manager otherwise we will not see good performance from Brazil team.

The biggest problem with the Brazilian national team is the Brazilian coaches, who are completely unqualified. Although the CBF tried to hire Carlo Anceloti, no elite coach in world football would ever accept to coach the Brazilian national team, because the highest authority in Brazilian football is completely corrupt. I don't think a good foreign coach would accept to work in a place like the CBF.

Brazil may have quality players but we have not seen in Brazil till now the quality manager to control those quality players. I still vividly remember Neymar's goal in extra time against Croatia in the 2022 World Cup quarter-final match that almost sealed the team's victory but the former Brazil manager at the time did not alert any player to come down which resulted in their penalty shoot-out loss to Croatia. Due to some such wrong decisions, several Brazilian media said that there is no need to keep such a manager in the team with so much money, as a result of which the manager is forced to step down from his position. Carlo Ancelotti was rumored for some time to take charge of Brazil but ultimately the deal was not completed and it remains to be seen whether Brazil can appoint a qualified manager for their team ahead of the 2026 World Cup.