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

[LUCKMCFLY]

There is a process in order to become a legal resident in Italy, in Europe, and in any other country of the world. Proposing to let people in from other countries just because there is a demographic downtrend makes little sense. If you want to move to another country you must bring something with you: money, skills, etc. Letting poor people in is just going to create more and more problems because many illegal immigrants just ask for money and shelter, they have no intention of working, no intention of integrate, no intention of paying taxes, they just want to exploit the system. It doesn't work like that.

You are right and I know that, it is just that for some countries it is more difficult to Obtain their ID or identification, in the case of children I know that there is a lot of priority , if there is material from other countries and they want to contribute or play for Italy, if they are good they help them, but it is much easier for a player from Brazil, Argentina than for a player from Venezuela, the Passport weighs even if you do not believe it and this was said by a Venezuelan player called Niku Fedor , he even played for Italian teams, but his entry into the country was Difficult , they do not give as Many Opportunities for going from a country that in Europe is considered not Football.

[Ale88]

What make it interesting is Italy, personally I think they won't qualify in this season.

I don't think Italy can qualify directly to the World Cup because we've lost 3-0 against Norway and even if we win every single match, including the second match with Norway, I don't think we can score as many goals as them. Our attack is by far the worst part of the team. We may eventually qualify through the play-offs.

The Italian team have really decreased in terms of performance and even production of talented players or should I say world class players that have impacted in the activeness or even the reputation of that the Italy holds in the football world. If they continue like this it will be really difficult and hard for them to meet up with even qualifying for other competitions and even when they continue it would be hard for them to progress further especially in the big stages like the world cup.

The players are not even that bad but we have limited choice: every time there are 2-3 key players injured and the substitute players are kind of average, and that is a problem. I don't pretend to win the World Cup with this team but we're not even supposed to lose 3-0 against Norway, which is a very good team but there is no excuse for such defeat.

[SuperBitMan]

Venezuela knowing what's at stake in that game are expected to go all out for a good result but playing against an Argentina side that's ranked as the no.1 team in the world, I don't think they'll be able to leave with a point from that game. Argentina leads the group just like you rightly said are surely gonna feature in the next edition of the FIFA World Cup why their opponents will need a good result to still remain in a good place to qualify but that doesn't mean Argentina will let them get a result in theArgentine soil. My prediction is that Argentina will win that game with at least 2-goal margin.

Yes, in my opinion, the Argentine team is the super favourite to win a lot more, it's also true that this will be Messi's last year, the last tournament for one of the greatest players ever, who knows, maybe he'll repeat what he did at the last World Cup, bringing them another cup.

Lionel Messi is a very good player no doubt he was very instrumental in winning the last world cup and I know Argentina are very lucky and happy to have him, I will really miss him after this last competition he will be participating in because his about to retire and I know very well that Argentina will play their best in order to give Lionel Messi and ending career that is very great, so they will play their best in this match that Messi will participating in, Messi is still very active in playing football and I believe he will perform very well just like he did in the last world cup competition.
I still can't forget the performance of Messi in the last world cup he did very well and he was very instrumental for Argentina however at a point I was thinking France will win them but that did not happen thank God for the Argentina goalkeeper he really was their Savior.

[Mate2237]

What make it interesting is Italy, personally I think they won't qualify in this season.

I don't think Italy can qualify directly to the World Cup because we've lost 3-0 against Norway and even if we win every single match, including the second match with Norway, I don't think we can score as many goals as them. Our attack is by far the worst part of the team. We may eventually qualify through the play-offs.

The Italian team have really decreased in terms of performance and even production of talented players or should I say world class players that have impacted in the activeness or even the reputation of that the Italy holds in the football world. If they continue like this it will be really difficult and hard for them to meet up with even qualifying for other competitions and even when they continue it would be hard for them to progress further especially in the big stages like the world cup.

The players are not even that bad but we have limited choice: every time there are 2-3 key players injured and the substitute players are kind of average, and that is a problem. I don't pretend to win the World Cup with this team but we're not even supposed to lose 3-0 against Norway, which is a very good team but there is no excuse for such defeat.

True the Italian national team has been on the decline in recent times this is because I think that the Italian seria A is flooded with foreign players in their top four teams, there should be a deliberate effort by the Italian FA limit the number of foreign players from coming into the league.


This move will help and grow Italian players to become competitive because the quality of the Italian national team has been on the decline and this is not a good one for a country like Italy

[LUCKMCFLY]

Maybe the situation in the Italian team is very bad now, but if Italy tries from now on, then in the next few years their team will be full of good players again and they will return to good performance again.

But what could be the solution for Italy? I say it has to start with children, with them encouraging them to play football , with talent scouts starting when they're 4 or 5 years old So, in light of this, they have to act, because by seeing better order and more talent, they can work much better from the very Beginning From the age of 16, they can play in a professional national team Those options are quickly Needed.

[Franctoshi]

Venezuela knowing what's at stake in that game are expected to go all out for a good result but playing against an Argentina side that's ranked as the no.1 team in the world, I don't think they'll be able to leave with a point from that game. Argentina leads the group just like you rightly said are surely gonna feature in the next edition of the FIFA World Cup why their opponents will need a good result to still remain in a good place to qualify but that doesn't mean Argentina will let them get a result in theArgentine soil. My prediction is that Argentina will win that game with at least 2-goal margin.

Yes, in my opinion, the Argentine team is the super favourite to win a lot more, it's also true that this will be Messi's last year, the last tournament for one of the greatest players ever, who knows, maybe he'll repeat what he did at the last World Cup, bringing them another cup.

Lionel Messi is a very good player no doubt he was very instrumental in winning the last world cup and I know Argentina are very lucky and happy to have him, I will really miss him after this last competition he will be participating in because his about to retire and I know very well that Argentina will play their best in order to give Lionel Messi and ending career that is very great, so they will play their best in this match that Messi will participating in, Messi is still very active in playing football and I believe he will perform very well just like he did in the last world cup competition.
I still can't forget the performance of Messi in the last world cup he did very well and he was very instrumental for Argentina however at a point I was thinking France will win them but that did not happen thank God for the Argentina goalkeeper he really was their Savior.

In my perspective, If I were to be Argentina Lionel Messi, I will have retired with the record achievement he has so far in the last world cup competition which he lifted the cup, and with that trophy honor and reputation, he has done quite well. But nevertheless, things can go his direction and Argentina break record and the world cup back to back.

[Ale88]

Maybe the situation in the Italian team is very bad now, but if Italy tries from now on, then in the next few years their team will be full of good players again and they will return to good performance again.

But what could be the solution for Italy? I say it has to start with children, with them encouraging them to play football , with talent scouts starting when they're 4 or 5 years old So, in light of this, they have to act, because by seeing better order and more talent, they can work much better from the very Beginning From the age of 16, they can play in a professional national team Those options are quickly Needed.

I wouldn't say that the problem are the children rather than the whole youth system: when they are at young age many managers prefer players that are more physically developed compared to those who have good technique because, at that age, it's easier to win matches. But they are doing it for themselves, not for the kids. And that is totally wrong. I feel like there is too much pressure to obtain results instead the should focus more on the kids' growth, at the end who cares if you win the league when you are 14 years old?

But, as I said, it's not a problem that is affecting only Italy: if we take a look at the current Brazil squad, or even Germany, the names are quite mediocre. The stars are still players like Neuer, Kimmich, Marquinhos, Casemiro, and they are all old players. Where are the stars born after 2000? Vinicius? Wirtz? They are good but I'd take Neymar and Ozil over those two, without even thinking about it.

[LGD2Business]

Georgia is a tough opponent, even though they may seem easy on paper. There is a crisis in Turkish team because the players have formed cliques. I find this very dangerous. If the management cannot maintain discipline within the team, success will be impossible. Anyone responsible for the internal factions within the team, starting with Yunus Akgün, should be punished. Türkiye cannot afford to lose points here. Losing points to Georgia while competing with Spain in the group would mean the end before the beginning.

[ajanwalker]

Georgia is a tough opponent, even though they may seem easy on paper. There is a crisis in Turkish team because the players have formed cliques. I find this very dangerous. If the management cannot maintain discipline within the team, success will be impossible. Anyone responsible for the internal factions within the team, starting with Yunus Akgün, should be punished. Türkiye cannot afford to lose points here. Losing points to Georgia while competing with Spain in the group would mean the end before the beginning.

I don't believe there's any division within the team. They're all professional footballers. They're in this for the money. Today's match will be one where national sentiment is at the forefront.
I think Georgia will win.

Even though Kvara's recent performance against PSG has been poor, Georgia is a good team. They could beat us in front of their own fans.
Turkey is comparing itself to Spain. Türkiye also has a good squad, but Georgia is also a strong team in the group. I'm curious to see what kind of football we'll see on the pitch today. It's Georgia's away match,
it's fine if we don't win, but it's a tough match.

[mandown]

Georgia is a tough opponent, even though they may seem easy on paper. There is a crisis in Turkish team because the players have formed cliques. I find this very dangerous. If the management cannot maintain discipline within the team, success will be impossible. Anyone responsible for the internal factions within the team, starting with Yunus Akgün, should be punished. Türkiye cannot afford to lose points here. Losing points to Georgia while competing with Spain in the group would mean the end before the beginning.

I saw a video on social media, but it felt like an old video.
Yunus is pushing Kerem, but it doesn't seem serious.
Kerem's transfer to Fenerbahçe and his deletion of his time at Galatasaray from his social media accounts made headlines. This gave the impression of a factionalism within the national team, but I don't think so.
If Kerem is the problem, Montella will not play him in these matches, and the matter will be over.

Georgia is a tough away game. They have effective attacking players.
They last met at the 2024 European Championship, and Turkey won that match 3-1. Now the match is on Georgia's home turf, and Georgia holds a slight advantage.

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What make it interesting is Italy, personally I think they won't qualify in this season.

Their chances of qualifying directly this season are quite slim, as they need to win all their remaining matches in Group I, which is quite difficult. Their most likely path to qualification is through the play-offs, but that's only possible if they can finish second or third, but if at least 11 of the 14 Nations League group winners have already qualified as first or second in their qualifying groups, which would open up an additional playoff slot.

So, Italy's path to qualifying for this season's World Cup is quite difficult.

[Velvet78]

Georgia have really good attackers. Mikautadze and Kvaratskhelia are really deadly players and Türkiye will need to watch out for them. I really like their GK Mamardashvili as well however he has lack of game fitness because of not finding any chance at Liverpool yet.

On the other hand, Türkiye are still suffering from a CF problem as it seems. Akturkoglu is expected to be on the front line. Let's see whether they can manage to beat Georgia again. But this time is away so their job is more difficult undoubtedly. BTTS @1.68 seems nice. 

[blomen]

Georgia is a tough opponent, even though they may seem easy on paper. There is a crisis in Turkish team because the players have formed cliques. I find this very dangerous. If the management cannot maintain discipline within the team, success will be impossible. Anyone responsible for the internal factions within the team, starting with Yunus Akgün, should be punished. Türkiye cannot afford to lose points here. Losing points to Georgia while competing with Spain in the group would mean the end before the beginning.

regardless of what happens in matches between players' own clubs, these should be forgotten and ignored in national team matches. the reason for playing for the national team is not to protect one's career or earn money; it is certainly not a place to create perceptions based on your own controversies. everyone represents their own country in the national team, so the matches requiring the most effort should be national team matches.

you can argue with anyone in your private life, but you should not bring it to the national team. otherwise, you will get a reaction from people. i hope there will be no arguments among our own players in tonight's georgia-turkey match.

[Lidger]

Venezuela knowing what's at stake in that game are expected to go all out for a good result but playing against an Argentina side that's ranked as the no.1 team in the world, I don't think they'll be able to leave with a point from that game. Argentina leads the group just like you rightly said are surely gonna feature in the next edition of the FIFA World Cup why their opponents will need a good result to still remain in a good place to qualify but that doesn't mean Argentina will let them get a result in theArgentine soil. My prediction is that Argentina will win that game with at least 2-goal margin.

Yes, in my opinion, the Argentine team is the super favourite to win a lot more, it's also true that this will be Messi's last year, the last tournament for one of the greatest players ever, who knows, maybe he'll repeat what he did at the last World Cup, bringing them another cup.

Lionel Messi is a very good player no doubt he was very instrumental in winning the last world cup and I know Argentina are very lucky and happy to have him, I will really miss him after this last competition he will be participating in because his about to retire and I know very well that Argentina will play their best in order to give Lionel Messi and ending career that is very great, so they will play their best in this match that Messi will participating in, Messi is still very active in playing football and I believe he will perform very well just like he did in the last world cup competition.
I still can't forget the performance of Messi in the last world cup he did very well and he was very instrumental for Argentina however at a point I was thinking France will win them but that did not happen thank God for the Argentina goalkeeper he really was their Savior.

We are lucky because we have seen Messi, Neymar and Ronaldo play since the beginning of their careers.

Messi is undoubtedly one of the best footballers in the world. Argentina won the World Cup in the last World Cup tournament only because of Messi. Messi played a big role in Argentina's victory in every match, but Messi's career in the Argentina jersey was not so bright in the past. Although Messi performed well for the club, Messi could never have performed well in the Argentina jersey. Rather, while Messi was in the team, Argentina qualified for the finals of several major tournaments, but Argentina lost every time, but in the 2022 World Cup, Messi really proved himself in the Argentina jersey. When Messi won the 2022 World Cup, I thought that Messi might end his career there, but Messi is still playing football so it is expected that Messi will dominate the field in the 2026 World Cup. 

It is very likely that Argentina will have a match tonight on their home soil, which will probably be Messi's last international match on Argentina's home soil wearing the Argentina jersey, and there is a lot of interest among Messi fans surrounding this match and they are already preparing to bid Messi farewell.

[ILuckyGuyI]

A really easy win vs Georgia is still on the way for us if we don't mess up in the remaining 20 minutes.    It's 3-1 after the goal we've just conceded.

I thought it wouldn't be that easy for us because of playing away. But Georgia couldn't show a very effective performance until this goal. I hope they don't get better...


Türkiye are most likely to finish Group E in 2nd place for now. If only we manage to beat Spain this Sunday... 

[yenerbatmaz]

Just when Turkey could have made a historic lead, the red card changed the course of the match.
Georgia began attacking more, but they only managed one goal.
Georgia focused all their attacking power on Kvara. They always tried to attack from the left wing. Mert and Merih struggled, but since the result ended 2-3 in Turkey's favor, I can say they were successful.
I think Barış's mind was elsewhere. Barış was quite affected by the transfer rumors. There's no other explanation for his red card. Turkey started the group with 3 points. Spain are the group favorites, ahead of Bulgaria. Any result can happen in football, but I don't expect any surprises from Bulgaria.

[Agbe]

Just when Turkey could have made a historic lead, the red card changed the course of the match.
Georgia began attacking more, but they only managed one goal.
Georgia focused all their attacking power on Kvara. They always tried to attack from the left wing. Mert and Merih struggled, but since the result ended 2-3 in Turkey's favor, I can say they were successful.
I think Barış's mind was elsewhere. Barış was quite affected by the transfer rumors. There's no other explanation for his red card. Turkey started the group with 3 points. Spain are the group favorites, ahead of Bulgaria. Any result can happen in football, but I don't expect any surprises from Bulgaria.

I followed this game closely and I must say that turkey almost game this game away but nice performance from Turkey especially in the first half of this game as they led by 0:2 at away, even though that the red card that was given to them in the second half kind of gave Georgia an extra advantage as they kept mounting pressure on the Turkish defense but turkey was able to get all three points

[PremiumcryptoHub]

Venezuela knowing what's at stake in that game are expected to go all out for a good result but playing against an Argentina side that's ranked as the no.1 team in the world, I don't think they'll be able to leave with a point from that game. Argentina leads the group just like you rightly said are surely gonna feature in the next edition of the FIFA World Cup why their opponents will need a good result to still remain in a good place to qualify but that doesn't mean Argentina will let them get a result in theArgentine soil. My prediction is that Argentina will win that game with at least 2-goal margin.

Yes, in my opinion, the Argentine team is the super favourite to win a lot more, it's also true that this will be Messi's last year, the last tournament for one of the greatest players ever, who knows, maybe he'll repeat what he did at the last World Cup, bringing them another cup.

Lionel Messi is a very good player no doubt he was very instrumental in winning the last world cup and I know Argentina are very lucky and happy to have him, I will really miss him after this last competition he will be participating in because his about to retire and I know very well that Argentina will play their best in order to give Lionel Messi and ending career that is very great, so they will play their best in this match that Messi will participating in, Messi is still very active in playing football and I believe he will perform very well just like he did in the last world cup competition.
I still can't forget the performance of Messi in the last world cup he did very well and he was very instrumental for Argentina however at a point I was thinking France will win them but that did not happen thank God for the Argentina goalkeeper he really was their Savior.

I think Messi is one of the best players in the world, but this player may be retiring, which will make his former club and former teammates miss him a lot.We have seen many times that this player can be dangerous at any time, especially in El Clasico matches against Real Madrid,He also won only one World Cup in his career and his contribution there was the greatest because everyone saw that he won the Golden Ball. At the moment it seems that Argentina's level of experience will decrease because everyone saw earlier that Di Maria, a very close player to Messi, had retired. Next week the Argentine football team will participate in their warm-up match and that match will be against the Venezuelan team maybe this match will bring this skilled and agile player to retirement but my idea if he could have served this team for a few more years, Argentina's progress would have been much further.

[$crypto$]

Germany was actually trailing Slovakia 1-0. I hoped Germany would win because I had bet on them.

The first half was pretty bad in terms of chances, while Slovakia managed to score 1 goal. In the second half, I hoped the tide would turn and Germany would win. Although the chances of winning were still slim, I hoped Germany would increase their attacking aggression.

[LGD2Business]

Türkiye was almost losing points in a match where they had been leading by three goals. Kerem's two goals sent an important message to everyone. Barış Alper Yılmaz got a red card the moment he entered the match like a complete idiot. He probably made that move forgetting he was playing for the national team, as he doesn't get cards for such actions in the Turkish league. All three of Türkiye's shots on goal were goals, what would they have done otherwise? Georgia pressed harder and took more shots. They were almost equalizing. Uğurcan is really an inadequate goalkeeper. Montella, on the other hand, repeatedly shows that he shouldn't be the national team coach, both with his tactics and his squad choices. But he has such luck that even when he wins despite all his mistakes, these things aren't discussed.