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

[Dump3er]

-Unfortunately with what's going on in Mexico which has spark insecurities concerns across the globe as host of the prestigious tournament in the world, yet there's nothing much FIFA can do at this time due to the short timeframe left to the World Cup date. Four months to go, and which nation can prepare to replace Mexico within such short time.of 4 months. Both the government of Mexico and FIFA has to swift into action to calm the situation in order that football fans and players can have the confidence to embrace the competition without fear of any attack.

Northing is predictable at this point and I wish a person from Mexico would speak up and let us all know what this actually means.

Telling from the news, it looks terribly and while it is a long time to go until the event takes time, it is not looking good.
How long until this can possibly calm down?

[Sithara007]

Perhaps citizens of each of these countries are willing to spend hundreds of dollars just to watch their favorite teams play. But for me personally, I wouldn't want to spend money to watch those matches - if it were a match between a big team, maybe I would pay the subscription fee to watch it, but since it's a less interesting team to watch, I'll just skip it and choose to watch the match highlights if they are available on YouTube. And I think that most Americans might think the same way I do, because they are still not that familiar with football, let alone watching matches from other countries, maybe they will think twice about spending some dollars just to watch a country they are not familiar with.

They probably need to spend thousands, if not tens of thousands of dollars to watch these matches. Traveling from Asia to America is quite expensive, and the hotel rates are also pretty much unaffordable in states such as New Jersey, Massachusetts and California). But then, it is a lifetime opportunity to tell your grandkids that you were personally present at the stadium, when your country participated for the first time in the FIFA World Cup. Nothing beats that. India couldn't qualify this time, and the last time we qualified was back in 1950 (but the government refused to send a team). If India ever gets qualified, then personally I will not mind spending $10,000 or $20,000 to watch our matches.

[Ale88]

Just to name a few. Now, seriously, how much would you pay to attend one of these games? Because, honestly, I'm not even sure I would waste my time watching them on television, let alone spending $3-400 and all the time required to get to the stadium and back. Maybe I'm wrong but I really struggle to imagine American going at the stadium for Jordan vs Algeria or Cape Verde vs Saudi Arabia...

Perhaps citizens of each of these countries are willing to spend hundreds of dollars just to watch their favorite teams play. But for me personally, I wouldn't want to spend money to watch those matches - if it were a match between a big team, maybe I would pay the subscription fee to watch it, but since it's a less interesting team to watch, I'll just skip it and choose to watch the match highlights if they are available on YouTube. And I think that most Americans might think the same way I do, because they are still not that familiar with football, let alone watching matches from other countries, maybe they will think twice about spending some dollars just to watch a country they are not familiar with.

I mean, if not their own fans/citizens who else should spend money otherwise? In the last years I haven't been following football as much as I used to because I feel like now it's just about money (but this is a different topic), anyway, I repeat, maybe it's just me, but I can't name a single player from Jordan, Tunisia, Curaçao, Cape Verde, Panana... And I can name maybe 2-3 from New Zealand, Egypt, Ghana, Uzbekistan and Iran. I find it kind of surreal to think that in the best competition of the world we are going to have a bunch of unknown players. And don't get me wrong, I love when there is the underdog team that makes the miracle and qualifies (Iceland, Trinidad and Tobago with the legendary Yorke, Jamaica in 1998, just to name a few) but this is too much. FIFA only think more matches = more money, the quality of the matches is not important to them.

[tygeade]

The new world cup's format it's horrible, not for presence of little teams but for this tipe of triangular game. I prefer the old version of world cup: three match in a group stage and afer go with direct elimination.

I don't understand.

That is the same format being used this time as well, right? Each team will play 3 matches in group phase and after that it is do or die once they enter the Round of 32. The only difference is that the knockout stage now consists of 32 teams (and not 16 as was the case with previous editions). What this means is that along with the 24 first and second placed teams in each group, a total of 8 third placed teams will also qualify for the next phase. But then again, it is going to be a knockout. If any of these teams lose a single match, they are out of the tournament.

If I am not wrong it wasn't robin style in the format but more about points and what not, in any case, 48 teams is a lot more than it should be according to some people, I do not agree I want even more, I want 64, and I want groups to be just 4 teams as it is, and play 3 games and the top 2 goes up, then at 32 round they play etc etc, but I get that some people do not want that.

I think the new format isn't bad, and it's going to have more nations watching in and watching this. The Qatar one was horrible all the way until the semi finals or so, nobody cared about group games that much, maybe things like shocking results such as Germany etc, but aside from that it was boring, so with more nations maybe it will be more fun.

[letteredhub]

-Unfortunately with what's going on in Mexico which has spark insecurities concerns across the globe as host of the prestigious tournament in the world, yet there's nothing much FIFA can do at this time due to the short timeframe left to the World Cup date. Four months to go, and which nation can prepare to replace Mexico within such short time.of 4 months. Both the government of Mexico and FIFA has to swift into action to calm the situation in order that football fans and players can have the confidence to embrace the competition without fear of any attack.

Northing is predictable at this point and I wish a person from Mexico would speak up and let us all know what this actually means.

Telling from the news, it looks terribly and while it is a long time to go until the event takes time, it is not looking good.
How long until this can possibly calm down?

Don't know how long it could possibly calm and yeah, a mexican could actually be in better position to tell what's the condition of the situation really looking like out there than only what we're getting from news online. However, it still doesn't mirror differently that there's an insecurity issue over there in Mexico, a country where the world cup would be partly hosted as a co-host nation of the three nations to host the tournament.

Another relevant concern about replacing Mexico now is that how would FIFA decide on their fate in participating in the tournament as qualified participant as their qualification was automatic since they're hosting.

[Dump3er]

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Don't know how long it could possibly calm and yeah, a mexican could actually be in better position to tell what's the condition of the situation really looking like out there than only what we're getting from news online. However, it still doesn't mirror differently that there's an insecurity issue over there in Mexico, a country where the world cup would be partly hosted as a co-host nation of the three nations to host the tournament.

Another relevant concern about replacing Mexico now is that how would FIFA decide on their fate in participating in the tournament as qualified participant as their qualification was automatic since they're hosting.

A big problem is that this cartel may want to use a big event like the World Cup to spread terror. I don't know how they work, but when they want revenge and punish the Mexican government for killing their leader, going after tourists during the World Cup with hidden bombs and other attacks would be the maximum damage they could cause. I am not sure if that is what they would do, but so far I think on TV they usually let civilians run off and don't kill them. Although there was this school bus they burned down and I didn't understand whether there were any people in there.

Either way if I was a visitor to that World Cup, I wouldn't go to Mexico with great feelings and expectations. If the cartel strikes just once days before the World Cup starts, there is no way the government could ensure safety for all visitors.