FIFA 2026 World Cup/Ticket Discussion Thread.

[satscraper]

Each time South Africa lose the ball or maybe give some crazy passes that doesn't have any effect on the defenders of Mexicans I ask myself, is this the South Africa that gave Nigeria players the Super Eagles a hard in the qualifiers? No, something isn't right, the SA players weren't this bad during the qualifiers and it was as if they are ready to beat any team they faced in the WC and now we have it, nothing productive except for their attempts they made, South Africa did something I love about their game and that is getting every ball on target, they are too good in that area but aside from that they're a big waste.
Imagine Mexico fans booing them each time they touch the ball, for all African countries I would support them but when it comes to South Africa I think they deserve everything things they've been getting, the boos and all that, because of how they treat their fellow Africans that are in their land, they have to be eliminated very fast, they don't deserve the love other African nations are getting in this WC.

I had no doubt that South Africa would be beaten by Mexico in this match, so I placed the bet on their loss and it paid off when Mexico won 2-0. I don't remember South African team ever succeeding in World Cup matches, though they have appeared very rarely. In the next match they face Czechia, and I think they will lose that game too.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Each time South Africa lose the ball or maybe give some crazy passes that doesn't have any effect on the defenders of Mexicans I ask myself, is this the South Africa that gave Nigeria players the Super Eagles a hard in the qualifiers? No, something isn't right, the SA players weren't this bad during the qualifiers and it was as if they are ready to beat any team they faced in the WC and now we have it, nothing productive except for their attempts they made, South Africa did something I love about their game and that is getting every ball on target, they are too good in that area but aside from that they're a big waste.
Imagine Mexico fans booing them each time they touch the ball, for all African countries I would support them but when it comes to South Africa I think they deserve everything things they've been getting, the boos and all that, because of how they treat their fellow Africans that are in their land, they have to be eliminated very fast, they don't deserve the love other African nations are getting in this WC.

I had no doubt that South Africa would be beaten by Mexico in this match, so I placed the bet on their loss and it paid off when Mexico won 2-0. I don't remember South African team ever succeeding in World Cup matches, though they have appeared very rarely. In the next match they face Czechia, and I think they will lose that game too.

Congratulations on your winning game, is never easy to spot the right one these days. Yet again, South Africa might not be the type of side that get the job done against some of the finest in the World Cup but judging by how they played both in the qualifiers and in the AFCON, you can tell that they are ready for business but coming here to play like their target was to hit on opposition players is really surprising. I expected something shocking at least it should end in a draw but after the first card I saw a team that doesn't have what it takes to be in the grand stage of football ball, before the red cards the whole team never had any force in getting the defense of Mexico back into their own half and the host saw their weaknesses and capitalized on it.

[len01]

The South African team's players performed badly in this match, although they should not have behaved like that at all. Due to their own mistakes, the players got red cards and went off the field, and Mexico took advantage of this opportunity to win their first game. However, Mexico is the stronger team in Group A, so in this match, Mexico has definitely occupied the top spot in the points table and as always, Mexico will occupy the top spot in Group A.

South Africa were actually just trying to play more aggressively after conceding the first goal. Unfortunately, being too aggressive resulted in two South African players being sent off after receiving red cards. If the away team hadn't made those mistakes, I'm sure they could have put up a stronger fight or at least managed to score one goal.

As for Mexico being the strongest team in Group A, I don't completely agree. Looking more closely, I think South Korea are quite capable of competing with Mexico and are not far behind them in terms of quality.

[swogerino]

The South African team's players performed badly in this match, although they should not have behaved like that at all. Due to their own mistakes, the players got red cards and went off the field, and Mexico took advantage of this opportunity to win their first game. However, Mexico is the stronger team in Group A, so in this match, Mexico has definitely occupied the top spot in the points table and as always, Mexico will occupy the top spot in Group A.

South Africa were actually just trying to play more aggressively after conceding the first goal. Unfortunately, being too aggressive resulted in two South African players being sent off after receiving red cards. If the away team hadn't made those mistakes, I'm sure they could have put up a stronger fight or at least managed to score one goal.

As for Mexico being the strongest team in Group A, I don't completely agree. Looking more closely, I think South Korea are quite capable of competing with Mexico and are not far behind them in terms of quality.

I think in this group most likely the team I know to progress further will be Mexico for sure as this is not normally a very strong group we are talking about. The big teams have not played yet and they are also not going to play today either so not that much interest from many people in these early days of the competition. Also for us in Europe many games are at 1 AM so not the best time to be awake as we have to start preparing for work just a few hours later so no need to ruin our sleep for the "smaller" teams.

[Alonso_]

The South African team's players performed badly in this match, although they should not have behaved like that at all. Due to their own mistakes, the players got red cards and went off the field, and Mexico took advantage of this opportunity to win their first game. However, Mexico is the stronger team in Group A, so in this match, Mexico has definitely occupied the top spot in the points table and as always, Mexico will occupy the top spot in Group A.

South Africa were actually just trying to play more aggressively after conceding the first goal. Unfortunately, being too aggressive resulted in two South African players being sent off after receiving red cards. If the away team hadn't made those mistakes, I'm sure they could have put up a stronger fight or at least managed to score one goal.

As for Mexico being the strongest team in Group A, I don't completely agree. Looking more closely, I think South Korea are quite capable of competing with Mexico and are not far behind them in terms of quality.

I don’t think anyone was expecting much from South Africa, maybe South Americas was expecting much more from their team, probably to beat Mexico which was quite impossible for them, the much I think they could’ve gotten from that game was a draw, and it could’ve been more devastating for them the way they’re playing with two red cards, they didn’t play well it was a terrible performance like they didn’t train before coming into the game, anyways I have never seen South Africa as a very good team, the team is lacking so many things, and it’s going to be an early exit for them in the World Cup.

South Korea looks like a team that is going to play a better game in that group, and I think they’re the strongest team in that group, Mexico isn’t as strong as South Korea, I think both of them qualifies from the group A, and South Africa exit and Czech Republic. 

[meser#]

Justice prevailed in the South Korea-Czech Republic match. Despite South Korea dominating the game from start to finish, they fell behind 1-0 after Krejci's header, but scored the equalizer just 8 minutes later. The winning goal for South Korea was scored by our striker Hyeon-Gyu Oh, who plays for Beşiktaş, and he made us proud. I found the Czech Republic's performance quite weak. They don't really attack properly. I find it difficult for them to advance from this group. Korea won 2-1 and started the tournament with 3 points.

[Agbe]

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South Africa were actually just trying to play more aggressively after conceding the first goal. Unfortunately, being too aggressive resulted in two South African players being sent off after receiving red cards. If the away team hadn't made those mistakes, I'm sure they could have put up a stronger fight or at least managed to score one goal.
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South Korea looks like a team that is going to play a better game in that group, and I think they’re the strongest team in that group, Mexico isn’t as strong as South Korea, I think both of them qualifies from the group A, and South Africa exit and Czech Republic.  

Mexico who is hosting the World Cup will not be easy for South Africa or anyhow team to beating, either they win or draw and even if Mexico was not hosting the World Cup, South Africa can't beat them. And the supporters of South Africa in the world were just few but large number of them from Africa countries were supporting Mexico. And after the game, the South African goalkeeper was saying that they loss the match because the support from other Africans were not much and the chanting from Mexico fans were much higher.

I didn't watched South Korea match this morning but I saw the scorelines int social media and I know that South Korea is not weak team.

[mandown]

South Korea-Czech Republic match was more enjoyable than the Mexico-South Africa match. I don't think there have been so many red cards in opening matches at previous World Cups. This match saw three red cards. South Korea played very effectively, fell behind but managed to win.

I'm curious to see how teams like Curaçao and Haiti will perform. These are weaker teams and qualified due to the new World Cup format.

[Agbe]

South Korea-Czech Republic match was more enjoyable than the Mexico-South Africa match. I don't think there have been so many red cards in opening matches at previous World Cups. This match saw three red cards. South Korea played very effectively, fell behind but managed to win.

I'm curious to see how teams like Curaçao and Haiti will perform. These are weaker teams and qualified due to the new World Cup format.

The red cards were much as an opening match. I think in the previous World Cup from beginning to the end, it was only 4 red cards were given in the whole world cup but there is already 3 now in the first day so we are expecting plus eight (+8) red cards in this world cup. This are the kind of predictions Polymarket Prediction does. South Korea would beat Czech Republic, that was a sure prediction though I didn't predicted it. But I knew.

[Youngrebel]

Justice prevailed in the South Korea-Czech Republic match. Despite South Korea dominating the game from start to finish, they fell behind 1-0 after Krejci's header, but scored the equalizer just 8 minutes later. The winning goal for South Korea was scored by our striker Hyeon-Gyu Oh, who plays for Beşiktaş, and he made us proud. I found the Czech Republic's performance quite weak. They don't really attack properly. I find it difficult for them to advance from this group. Korea won 2-1 and started the tournament with 3 points.

To me south Korea actually deserve the win because of how their performance in the match and kept creating chances. And as for Czech Republic, they will actually need to improve and work more on them self most especially in defence and attack if they want to progress from the group because they offered very little going forward.

[yenerbatmaz]

World Cup opened with a rather unexciting match.
Today, Canada plays Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that match is also likely to be unexciting.
A draw seems more likely. Canada has a squad of quality players, but J. David has had a poor season.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Dzeko helped Schalke return to the Bundesliga, but he's also 40 years old. I expect a boring and low-scoring match.

[mandown]

South Korea-Czech Republic match was more enjoyable than the Mexico-South Africa match. I don't think there have been so many red cards in opening matches at previous World Cups. This match saw three red cards. South Korea played very effectively, fell behind but managed to win.

I'm curious to see how teams like Curaçao and Haiti will perform. These are weaker teams and qualified due to the new World Cup format.

The red cards were much as an opening match. I think in the previous World Cup from beginning to the end, it was only 4 red cards were given in the whole world cup but there is already 3 now in the first day so we are expecting plus eight (+8) red cards in this world cup. This are the kind of predictions Polymarket Prediction does. South Korea would beat Czech Republic, that was a sure prediction though I didn't predicted it. But I knew.

I think it's logical for Polymarket Prediction to make such a prediction. There were 32 teams in the previous World Cup, now there are 48. This means the number of matches will increase.
Given that there were 3 cards in the first match, it seems very likely that there will be +8 red cards in the following matches.
If South Africa had played a bit more aggressively yesterday, they would have received a third red card.
I should also mention that if a European referee had been in charge of the match, he wouldn't have considered the red card Mexico received as a red card. He would have deemed a yellow card sufficient.

[Crakryptvest]

The red cards were much as an opening match. I think in the previous World Cup from beginning to the end, it was only 4 red cards were given in the whole world cup but there is already 3 now in the first day so we are expecting plus eight (+8) red cards in this world cup. This are the kind of predictions Polymarket Prediction does. South Korea would beat Czech Republic, that was a sure prediction though I didn't predicted it. But I knew.

Referee giving much red card shouldn't be a problem as long as it is worth it but if doesn't then there's no need for that, the referee was too mean in that match, I agree with you that the red card was too much, I don't want to criticize the referee but he should be called to order, what this, this is a world cup not a kinda joke, he just share the red card as if it was a gift, 2 for south Africa and 1 for mexico, of this happens again, it will make the competition look like a joke, what I have on my slip is for the match between South korea an Czech Republic to produce 2goal and I got it right.

[LUCKMCFLY]

I always knew that this World Cup would be chaotic because of the host’s immigration strong policies but I didn’t think it would affect the officials. The matches haven’t even started yet, and the World Cup is already having controversies. What next? ICE waiting outside the stadium to check documentation of fans??

What happened to the referee from Africa is a very ugly and bad way they treat people who go to work in the world in the USA. In fact, I've never agreed with visas and all that. I think we're all equal. In sports, we're like that, and those bans, that contempt, and those humiliations don't sit well with me. Shame on FIFA for not intervening in this case and defending the referee.

[Africolo]

Worried about the number of fans that will miss watching the FIFA World Cup live because of the conditions placed by the US although I can't understand what the tweet is about but I think many will miss the word cup because of the financial conditions from the host country US where fans have to make a refundable visa bond requirements of $5,000 to $15,000 visa bond requirements for foreign visitors, to be allowed to watch the games live.

What's with the US stringent rules this time? Always making it difficult for tourists to access their country these days with new laws without any solid reasons behind only to say that they put the US first which is not bad but making things difficult for other nationals to visit your country is not making any sense. I know as a result of this new rules majority of the matches would greet near empty stadium with no much fans and supporters to cheer their teams up. I would not be surprised to see people complaining of this tournament to be very boring and worst of them all.

When I read your write up I was amazed by the points you made because it's as if you were a prophet that foresaw what would happen in the world cup because literally everything you said has happened in the world cup which kicked off yesterday, some people were sideline not to partake in the world cup due to security reasons most especially Omar the Somalia Referee and all his Joy and dreams of referring in the world cup was cut short by the United States of America.

The United States were very strict with their rules and I believe this will have much effect on the teams whose fanbase won't be able to afford the tickets to visit United States and cheer up their teams to victory, it's clearly understandable that they are trying to protect their country but depriving the rights of people to gain access into the country is entirely wrong and will make the world cup boring unlike what we saw in Qatar.

[virasog]

Justice prevailed in the South Korea-Czech Republic match. Despite South Korea dominating the game from start to finish, they fell behind 1-0 after Krejci's header, but scored the equalizer just 8 minutes later. The winning goal for South Korea was scored by our striker Hyeon-Gyu Oh, who plays for Beşiktaş, and he made us proud. I found the Czech Republic's performance quite weak. They don't really attack properly. I find it difficult for them to advance from this group. Korea won 2-1 and started the tournament with 3 points.

Yeah, the chances for the Czech Republic are quite slim now, especially when they lost this match against the Republic of Korea. In Group A, the Mexico team seems to be the strongest, and I don't see them losing any game in this group. I think the match between South Africa and Korea will decide who will be the 2nd qualifier from this group, assuming South Africa wins the match against Czechia.

[Fakhrulenclix]

Justice prevailed in the South Korea-Czech Republic match. Despite South Korea dominating the game from start to finish, they fell behind 1-0 after Krejci's header, but scored the equalizer just 8 minutes later. The winning goal for South Korea was scored by our striker Hyeon-Gyu Oh, who plays for Beşiktaş, and he made us proud. I found the Czech Republic's performance quite weak. They don't really attack properly. I find it difficult for them to advance from this group. Korea won 2-1 and started the tournament with 3 points.

Yeah, the chances for the Czech Republic are quite slim now, especially when they lost this match against the Republic of Korea. In Group A, the Mexico team seems to be the strongest, and I don't see them losing any game in this group. I think the match between South Africa and Korea will decide who will be the 2nd qualifier from this group, assuming South Africa wins the match against Czechia.

The Czech Republic made many mistakes even though they could have won this match if their defense played disciplined, but I also cannot deny that South Korea has almost the same quality, making this match very fierce and I also admit that South Korea deserved to win and now the Czech Republic's chance to qualify for the group stage is very small, although the chance is still there, but realistically, the percentage is now very small.

[meser#]

Bosnia and Herzegovina finished the first half 0-1 ahead, but I think the match will end 1-1. Canada played very aggressively but couldn't find the goal. If Canada scores in the second half, the match will end 1-1. Dzeko is on the bench, but

I think he will come into the game after the 70th minute.

[Odusko]

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South Africa were actually just trying to play more aggressively after conceding the first goal. Unfortunately, being too aggressive resulted in two South African players being sent off after receiving red cards. If the away team hadn't made those mistakes, I'm sure they could have put up a stronger fight or at least managed to score one goal.
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South Korea looks like a team that is going to play a better game in that group, and I think they’re the strongest team in that group, Mexico isn’t as strong as South Korea, I think both of them qualifies from the group A, and South Africa exit and Czech Republic.  

Mexico who is hosting the World Cup will not be easy for South Africa or anyhow team to beating, either they win or draw and even if Mexico was not hosting the World Cup, South Africa can't beat them. And the supporters of South Africa in the world were just few but large number of them from Africa countries were supporting Mexico. And after the game, the South African goalkeeper was saying that they loss the match because the support from other Africans were not much and the chanting from Mexico fans were much higher.

I didn't watched South Korea match this morning but I saw the scorelines int social media and I know that South Korea is not weak team.

I read online and on social media how the South Africa citizen are accusing other Africa teams supporters and other Africa citizens, but what we have to ask them also is that, are the supporters the ones playing the game or officiating the match because if nothing like that then south Africa players and citizen should accept their defeat amd work towards their next match.

[tiCeR]

Did you guys hear about the record breaking prices that ticket resellers charge? There are crazy amounts circulating and it was said that some rich people are willing to pay several hundred of thousands dollars. It is the biggest rip off in the history of football and I didn't really have an idea how much money an event like the World Cup can generate in total.

One example is that public transport prices have temporarily been raised by 800% and the worst thing about it is that no differences are being made between normal people who have just get to work and football fans. It now reaches a level that is big shame in my opinion.

And the corruption between Trump and Infantino is crazy. It was found out that Infantino rented offices and an apartment from Trump, but has never been there once and it is all paid by the FIFA but money is nonstop flowing into Trump's pockets.