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

[Volgastallion]

For all the people in this thread, which team do you think is gonna be the surprise in this world cup? I know we are still far from the start of the competition but we can have some teams in head.

Between the already qualified or the teams who are obvius contenders which team do you believe is gonna ahve a good run. I feel like Norway can be one.

[Ale88]

I remember him, but not him, it's Alessandro Milani, he preferred to leave to play for Venezuela, and I remember the case of Daniel Maldini, it's a shame because a player like him is sorely missed, he's also a striker who would have made a great duo with Rondón , but he was undecided because they didn't call him from the national team, after they called him it became clear that he was no longer going to Venezuela.

I'll be honest, I've never heard about him. He's still very young and I saw that he played a few times for the various youth Italian team, it's interesting that he chose Venezuela being so young. Good luck to him anyway, playing in a national team at 19 is a great achievement!

[Die_empty]

For all the people in this thread, which team do you think is gonna be the surprise in this world cup? I know we are still far from the start of the competition but we can have some teams in head.

Between the already qualified or the teams who are obvius contenders which team do you believe is gonna ahve a good run. I feel like Norway can be one.

Morocco was the team that surprised many people in the last World Cup. They made it to the semi-finals, making it the first time an African team reached that level. We expected them to win the first World Cup medal for Africa but they lost to Croatia by 2-1.

Georgia might be the next dark horse in the next World Cup. They put up a good performance in Euro 2024, where they reached the round of sixteen and lost to Spain. With their star player Khvicha Kvaratskhelia's performance they are the team to watch. Japan had a smooth ride in the qualification showing that they have improved. We should also expect much from them. The three underdogs in my list are Morocco, Georgia and Japan.    

[cande86]

For all the people in this thread, which team do you think is gonna be the surprise in this world cup? I know we are still far from the start of the competition but we can have some teams in head.

Between the already qualified or the teams who are obvius contenders which team do you believe is gonna ahve a good run. I feel like Norway can be one.

I think that Norway will not even get through to the next round, and I hope so, as an Italian I am convinced that the national team can go to the World Cup to do well and win it, why not?
However, there are many teams that can do very well, who knows if Morocco will be like the one in the last World Cup

[LUCKMCFLY]

Honestly, i am quite disappointed with how the national team is doing, but let's just say i am used to it now. i haven't seen good matches in a long time, and unfortunately, i haven't seen so many good players in a long time either.
We are now in an impasse from which it is difficult to escape.

But they have a big advantage and that is that they are already qualified Well, for Brazil and Argentina, qualifying for the World Cup has never been a problem For example, for the Venezuelan team, who will be playing for their lives against Argentina, it will be everything  Brazil is completely secure.

For all the people in this thread, which team do you think is gonna be the surprise in this world cup? I know we are still far from the start of the competition but we can have some teams in head.

Between the already qualified or the teams who are obvius contenders which team do you believe is gonna ahve a good run. I feel like Norway can be one.

I think that Norway will not even get through to the next round, and I hope so, as an Italian I am convinced that the national team can go to the World Cup to do well and win it, why not?
However, there are many teams that can do very well, who knows if Morocco will be like the one in the last World Cup

It's incredible because Norway has Haaland, and it's incredible that the Viking can't take his team to the World Cup? That's something that's very impressive Italy has to go, I've loved Italy since I was little their style of football is one of the ones I admire most. But now that the quotas have been expanded, I imagine both could go to the World Cup The more good teams that go, the better.

[Sithara007]

It's incredible because Norway has Haaland, and it's incredible that the Viking can't take his team to the World Cup? That's something that's very impressive Italy has to go, I've loved Italy since I was little their style of football is one of the ones I admire most. But now that the quotas have been expanded, I imagine both could go to the World Cup The more good teams that go, the better.

If Norway is unable to qualify for the 2026 edition, then it will be tragic. Erling Håland is yet to play in a FIFA World Cup, and looks like that wait is going to get even longer. That said, we need to remember that the expansion of the World Cup from 32 to 48 teams hasn't really benefitted the UEFA confederation. Number of slots allotted to UEFA only went up marginally, from 13 to 16. The main benefactors have been AFC and CAF, two of the most under-represented confederations in the world cup.

[Y3shot]

I think Saudi Arabia will qualify for World Cup using any possible way.

They spent a lot of money to buy Ronaldo and other European players, they also become the sponsor for Club World Cup, after everything they done for football, would they accept if they're not qualified for World Cup.

Lolz..will Ronaldo go and play as for them in order for them to qualify to the world cup. Ronaldo was signed to make the league popular and for people to recognize Saudi Arabia as a football loving country. Suadi have to play in order for them to qualify and if they can't, let them stay at home and watch of countries playing in the world cup so that, they can learn from their mistakes. No country will sell their qualification tocket to Saudi Arabia.

It doesn't make any sense for Ronaldo to play for Saudi Arabia. When Portugal is in the competition, Ronaldo will never leave his country team that he has been playing for, a team that is also considered one of the best teams so far as the World Cup is concerned.

 This is the team that he has always worked so hard to push forward. Because of Ronaldo, I think this World Cup should be the last one he plays for Portugal before he retires.

[Nahl]

For all the people in this thread, which team do you think is gonna be the surprise in this world cup? I know we are still far from the start of the competition but we can have some teams in head.

Between the already qualified or the teams who are obvius contenders which team do you believe is gonna ahve a good run. I feel like Norway can be one.

I think that Norway will not even get through to the next round, and I hope so, as an Italian I am convinced that the national team can go to the World Cup to do well and win it, why not?
However, there are many teams that can do very well, who knows if Morocco will be like the one in the last World Cup

Norway has several good players such as Haaland, Odegaard or Alexander Sorloth i think this team has a potention to playing on world cup moreover for qualification stages Norway has starting with very well because they can gets 4 winning streak recently and on their group only Italy is the strongest opponent for them which i think with their composition of squad i am sure Norway can beat Italy and this time i am quite confident they will be qualified and i wanted to see Haaland playing on world cup for the first time

[Gost ms]

For all the people in this thread, which team do you think is gonna be the surprise in this world cup? I know we are still far from the start of the competition but we can have some teams in head.

Between the already qualified or the teams who are obvius contenders which team do you believe is gonna ahve a good run. I feel like Norway can be one.

It seems to me that Portugal can win. Because Portugal is playing very well at the moment and Portugal has improved their team a lot. Portugal has very good players everywhere. For example, Bernardo Silva is in the midfield. There are very good players everywhere. Portugal's defense has become very strong compared to before.

Personally, I want Ronaldo to win the World Cup once. Because Ronaldo is one and a half of the best players of all time. Ronaldo has almost all the trophies except the World Cup trophy. From my personal wish, I want Ronaldo to win the World Cup once.

[Lidger]

The World Cup is coming up next year, so the World Cup madness has already started. In the World Cup, everyone supports their own team and every supporter wants their favorite team to do well in the World Cup, but even though there is always hope, the team they support cannot do well. It is natural to discuss which team can actually do well in the upcoming World Cup tournament, although there is still enough time for this tournament to start. Last season, we saw Argentina win the World Cup title from Latin America and France was Argentina's opponent in the final. Like the last tournament, I will consider France as the favorite in the upcoming tournament and Argentina as the favorite from Latin America. However, apart from these two teams, Spain and Germany have enough chances to do well.

[GigaBit]

The World Cup is coming up next year, so the World Cup madness has already started. In the World Cup, everyone supports their own team and every supporter wants their favorite team to do well in the World Cup, but even though there is always hope, the team they support cannot do well. It is natural to discuss which team can actually do well in the upcoming World Cup tournament, although there is still enough time for this tournament to start. Last season, we saw Argentina win the World Cup title from Latin America and France was Argentina's opponent in the final. Like the last tournament, I will consider France as the favorite in the upcoming tournament and Argentina as the favorite from Latin America. However, apart from these two teams, Spain and Germany have enough chances to do well.

It is difficult to predict how a team will perform in the World Cup. Sometimes, teams come into form and their performances surprise the football world. That is why sometimes, even if you underestimate a small team on the World Cup stage, something different can happen there. All the countries that did not do well last time will try to improve themselves in this upcoming tournament. I believe that Belgium will fight on the field as a stronger team next time, along with Germany, I also think that Saudi Arabia will become more stronger than before, who defeated Argentina in the group stage.

[retreat]

I think Saudi Arabia will qualify for World Cup using any possible way.

They spent a lot of money to buy Ronaldo and other European players, they also become the sponsor for Club World Cup, after everything they done for football, would they accept if they're not qualified for World Cup.

-snip-

Saudi Arabia knows how to play politics with FIFA. Just look at how they were able to lobby the AFC to have the Round 4 match held in their country, which gives them a significant advantage. Although the decision was protested by other teams because the match was supposed to be held at a neutral venue, the AFC still selected Saudi Arabia and Qatar to host the fourth round and ignored the protests from other teams. Because of this, I am even more confident that Saudi Arabia will qualify for the World Cup.

[Volgastallion]

Since a lot of people answer to my question about which team is gonna be the "surprise" in this next world cup i cant quote everyone so im gonna try to answer here to everyone.

To the guy who said Morocco is ok but we are now expecting something from there after they super run in the last one world cup.

And for me i still support the Norway idea. I dont get any other team in my head right now, maybe some south american team like Colombia it can be.

[pewboy]

For all the people in this thread, which team do you think is gonna be the surprise in this world cup? I know we are still far from the start of the competition but we can have some teams in head.

Between the already qualified or the teams who are obvius contenders which team do you believe is gonna ahve a good run. I feel like Norway can be one.

It seems to me that Portugal can win. Because Portugal is playing very well at the moment and Portugal has improved their team a lot. Portugal has very good players everywhere. For example, Bernardo Silva is in the midfield. There are very good players everywhere. Portugal's defense has become very strong compared to before.

Personally, I want Ronaldo to win the World Cup once. Because Ronaldo is one and a half of the best players of all time. Ronaldo has almost all the trophies except the World Cup trophy. From my personal wish, I want Ronaldo to win the World Cup once.

Yes, I would also be very happy if Portugal won if the national team deserves it and Cristiano Ronaldo also deserves it for his entire career and I think the team would also do it for the deceased footballer and friend Diego Jota, so I am totally with them.

[Adams0001]

The World Cup is coming up next year, so the World Cup madness has already started. In the World Cup, everyone supports their own team and every supporter wants their favorite team to do well in the World Cup, but even though there is always hope, the team they support cannot do well. It is natural to discuss which team can actually do well in the upcoming World Cup tournament, although there is still enough time for this tournament to start. Last season, we saw Argentina win the World Cup title from Latin America and France was Argentina's opponent in the final. Like the last tournament, I will consider France as the favorite in the upcoming tournament and Argentina as the favorite from Latin America. However, apart from these two teams, Spain and Germany have enough chances to do well.

Is very hard someone to predict the world Cup that is coming up next years. Because any country will do all there best to achieve the trophy, so even you choose your favourite team to win the title, you can't predict that they will definitely win. because football is always unpredictable and we can't predict the winner. Argentina win the last time World Cup by a penalty shootout against France. And many people didn't believe that Argentina we win the trophy because with how France performed in the  pitch, and Mbappe start shocking the fans. you will know that know one is ready to lose. Argentina as get there third world Cup and I think he will be very difficult for them to get the chance to win it again, because world Cup always rotate is only Brazil that get the opportunity to win it back to back. so I think next season world Cup is another country will achieve it he can be Spain, France or probably Brazil but we can't predict let see how the competition will be and see who will be the favorite to achieve the trophy.

[Ale88]

I think Saudi Arabia will qualify for World Cup using any possible way.

They spent a lot of money to buy Ronaldo and other European players, they also become the sponsor for Club World Cup, after everything they done for football, would they accept if they're not qualified for World Cup.

Lolz..will Ronaldo go and play as for them in order for them to qualify to the world cup. Ronaldo was signed to make the league popular and for people to recognize Saudi Arabia as a football loving country. Suadi have to play in order for them to qualify and if they can't, let them stay at home and watch of countries playing in the world cup so that, they can learn from their mistakes. No country will sell their qualification tocket to Saudi Arabia.

It doesn't make any sense for Ronaldo to play for Saudi Arabia. When Portugal is in the competition, Ronaldo will never leave his country team that he has been playing for, a team that is also considered one of the best teams so far as the World Cup is concerned.

 This is the team that he has always worked so hard to push forward. Because of Ronaldo, I think this World Cup should be the last one he plays for Portugal before he retires.

I don't think he was saying that Ronaldo would play for Saudi Arabia, especially because he can't change the national team, we are not in 1950 anymore... The problem with Saudi Arabia is that they are brining in a lot of foreigners but they are not pushing local players, what's the point in paying 200 mln per year a player and you can't even find 5 decent local players?

[Lidger]

The World Cup is coming up next year, so the World Cup madness has already started. In the World Cup, everyone supports their own team and every supporter wants their favorite team to do well in the World Cup, but even though there is always hope, the team they support cannot do well. It is natural to discuss which team can actually do well in the upcoming World Cup tournament, although there is still enough time for this tournament to start. Last season, we saw Argentina win the World Cup title from Latin America and France was Argentina's opponent in the final. Like the last tournament, I will consider France as the favorite in the upcoming tournament and Argentina as the favorite from Latin America. However, apart from these two teams, Spain and Germany have enough chances to do well.

It is difficult to predict how a team will perform in the World Cup. Sometimes, teams come into form and their performances surprise the football world. That is why sometimes, even if you underestimate a small team on the World Cup stage, something different can happen there. All the countries that did not do well last time will try to improve themselves in this upcoming tournament. I believe that Belgium will fight on the field as a stronger team next time, along with Germany, I also think that Saudi Arabia will become more stronger than before, who defeated Argentina in the group stage.

Saudi Arabia played in the last World Cup on their home soil and the support of the fans and the conditions were all in their favor, due to which they defeated a big team like Argentina in the group stage match and also performed well in the group stage matches, but the 2022 World Cup and the 2026 World Cup will definitely not be the same. The next World Cup will be held by three countries, America, Mexico and Canada, so it will be very difficult to do well against a team like Saudi Arabia in such conditions. Belgium could not perform significantly well in the last World Cup tournament, so considering that aspect, I am not putting Belgium in the list of favorite teams. I am only thinking about which teams can qualify for the semi-finals or finals in the next World Cup season and I believe that any of the teams I have mentioned can qualify for the semi-finals or finals in the next World Cup.

[Webetcoins]

Saudi Arabia knows how to play politics with FIFA. Just look at how they were able to lobby the AFC to have the Round 4 match held in their country, which gives them a significant advantage. Although the decision was protested by other teams because the match was supposed to be held at a neutral venue, the AFC still selected Saudi Arabia and Qatar to host the fourth round and ignored the protests from other teams. Because of this, I am even more confident that Saudi Arabia will qualify for the World Cup.

It has been known forever that Fifa and Uefa are both corrupted places. Fifa specially is a big corrupted space, they had to literally had their president go, just because he was bribed and it was ousted. So it's clear that they are on sale.

And if any nation wants to make sure that they get what they want, they can safely just bribe their way into it.

You still have to win the games on the field, even with all the advantage in the world, you can bribe the world to let Messi join you, if you want, if you suck, you suck, so you have to win on the field.

But yeah, bribery and corruption is a common thing for FIFA, they have been doing that for a long time and I do not think that it will end anytime soon and will help some nations more than others.

[Distraction]

There is still a month to go for the next qualification matches in UEFA and CONMEBOL. I'm especially wondering what Brazil will do in the future. Ancelotti's arrival has raised the expectations naturally. What do you think?

For all the people in this thread, which team do you think is gonna be the surprise in this world cup? I know we are still far from the start of the competition but we can have some teams in head.

Between the already qualified or the teams who are obvius contenders which team do you believe is gonna ahve a good run. I feel like Norway can be one.

Norway have 66.00 odds for the World Cup winner. What a tempting one! 

But I'm not feeling like we'll have that big of a surprise. I see Germany being given quite higher odds than I expected - 11.00. I guess I'd give them a chance. I really like their game in Nagelsmann's control.

[POPOLUV]

For all the people in this thread, which team do you think is gonna be the surprise in this world cup? I know we are still far from the start of the competition but we can have some teams in head.

Between the already qualified or the teams who are obvius contenders which team do you believe is gonna ahve a good run. I feel like Norway can be one.

I think that Norway will not even get through to the next round, and I hope so, as an Italian I am convinced that the national team can go to the World Cup to do well and win it, why not?
However, there are many teams that can do very well, who knows if Morocco will be like the one in the last World Cup

Norway has several good players such as Haaland, Odegaard or Alexander Sorloth i think this team has a potention to playing on world cup moreover for qualification stages Norway has starting with very well because they can gets 4 winning streak recently and on their group only Italy is the strongest opponent for them which i think with their composition of squad i am sure Norway can beat Italy and this time i am quite confident they will be qualified and i wanted to see Haaland playing on world cup for the first time

That is just the truth because with the squad that Norway gather I believe that Norway is in a better position to qualify and join with their recent winnings and will all knows that Italy is a strong team that it will be very hard to be victorious over them because Italy team is always seen as a strongest opponent to any teams that that eventually meet but i that Norway can always found their way in by winning Italy team with their recent squad, surely Norway is going to qualify for the world cup.