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Which of these teams have a greater chance of qualifying for 2026 World Cup

Austria Bulgaria Norway Romania Scotland

So next year, the United States will get a proper dress rehearsal organized by FIFA (not the Copa America that was organized by the cheapskate CONMEBOL) and I'm curious as to how many on here feel. I know that some in the US are split on either being excited because their city got some games (some of the cities did not get selected for 2026) and they like the expansion of the tournament or they don't like the tournament at all.

I'm kind of excited since we get a big event and Los Angeles gets to host it at the Rose Bowl even though we also have Gold Cup duty the same year as well at our other venues and I'm a little disappointed LA Galaxy didn't qualify. I can understand the concerns though so I'd be happy to hear.

Would love to hear your perspective on this

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I have been rewatching a few matches of the 2006 World Cup Group Stage and wondered what the best, i.e. most attractive/ entertaining match was. What do you think?

The teams don’t play each other because it’s an intercontinental sub-confederation, meaning teams are from 2 different associations (CAF and AFC). Supporters from nations in and surrounding these countries in UAFA, would you support a breakaway from CAF and AFC? Imo this is just a useless sub confederation. I feel because there are more games in the season instead of friendlies, there would be no time to capitalize on this sub-confederation. Yes there is the FIFA Arab cup and the Arab club championship, but the FIFA Arab cup didn’t used to happen commonly before fifa took over. Same with the Arab club championship, but there isn’t even word to when the next edition is happening. They held the last one during preseason in the summer, promoting it as a serious competition, and to promote the Saudi game and Al Nassr and Ronaldo. Compare it to other sub confederations like CFU that has clubs playing week in and week out in competitions that refer to their region, and the bigger region that manages them as a whole at a club and national level. I know UAFA has a purpose, but that purpose is difficult to work with when it is an intercontinental sub confederations stretching in two continents. To fix this they have to break away, or defunct the sub-confederation.

In my opinion, the problem is that the national teams and clubs are busy with the regular season and qualifying for the continental comps and WC, they just got no time to play, so the 2nd and 3rd teams are then sent to play in these competitions, some teams pull out as a whole. I see the only reason why it’s still up is money purposes. It would be useful if the teams broke away from CAF and AFC imo.

Would you like to see UAFA be scrapped or still remain.

The stats is based on award organized by FIFA as the highest governing body of football.

1. Best national team: Brazil (5x FIFA World Cup)
2. Best club: Real Madrid (5x FIFA Club World Cup)
3. Best player: Lionel Messi (1x FIFA World Player of the Year, 4x FIFA Ballon d'Or, 3x The Best FIFA Men's Player)
4. Best coach: Pep Guardiola (1x FIFA World Coach of the Year, 1x The Best FIFA Football Coach)

**notes: Jurgen Klopp win 2x The Best FIFA Football Coach which make him tied to Pep Guardiola. Since it is tied by FIFA award, I'm using UEFA award for the tie-breaker. Pep won 1x UEFA Men's Coach of the Year, while Jurgen Klopp none, so I put Pep as the best coach, for now.

Recently I have been excited to Rewatch some World Cup games in free time, i did my research and listed 100 selected Games that sounds interesting to me from Pele's 1958 all the way to Messi's 2022, would have started from 1930 but there is no full games from that period, most of these are knockout phase matches with many group stage games as well, by the way the FIFA Plus platform has about 90 percent of world cup games for free

Now I'm wondering how many of you did or doing something like this? do you ever go back and watch previous/classic world cup games? if so how many games have you re-watched? which ones are they? and is there anyone who re-watched full tournaments? if so which world cup was it?

If I’m not mistaken, the United States still holds the record for the best and/or highest attended World Cup in World Cup history which was held in 1994 (someone correct me if I’m wrong on that).

With football/soccer continuing to rise in popularity and clearly in its ascendancy here in North America (particularly the U.S. and Canada Mexico is already a footballing nation) I’m of the opinion that this has a potential to be the greatest sporting event in North American history does anyone agree?

Hey everyone, I just wanted to ask who you think will take the trophy in 2026. Give me your top 3 picks

no bias!

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With Netherlands and Belgium chosen to host the 2042 world cup (in my other post around a month ago now) which countries could realistically host

Would love to hear your perspective on this.

I’m curious to hear your perspective on this!!!

Would all 4 of those confederations benefit? I imagine the American region would have the gold cup as a 2nd tier trophy, Copa America would be the main competition. All 10 South American teams qualify automatically. The semi finalist in the Gold Cup qualify automatically, the 4 eliminated teams from the QF’s go to a playoff. The two winners qualify for Copa America. I would see a similar system happening in Asia. OFC nations cup being a second tier competition, Asian cup being the top tier.

title. i personally feel colombia or senegal

Alright so I am a Chelsea fan

I support England (birth country) and Nigeria ( family origin) in football.

I love nationals a lot more cause it has that community feel more than club.

Anyone feel this way?

Based on the good performances and the improvement of the Greek national team in recent months, do you think Greece will qualify for the 2026 world cup ?

When I check the social media account of the AFC Asian Cup, I see a lot of Indonesians flooding the comment section in their languages saying for example "we're gonna make it !" or "no one believe in us, but we believe !", because they had a impressive run in the Asian qualifiers, drawing to both Saudi Arabia and Australia although there's still far away of being a big football nation, so how is this possible that a keen interest on this team ?

They failed to qualify for the 1982, 2002 and 2018 World Cups all three after having a successful run in the previous tournament

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I've seen much discussion about potential kick-off times. I don't think the solution they find will be that controversial. These things will be sorted out once the finals draw is made, based around the core markets, so European and African teams will have their matches played in their evening times, Asian teams that suit their audience, likely North American teams playing later on.

But there is the bigger issue of the World Cup Final. There will be a lot of pressure, one would imagine, from the European and African markets for this to be played at around 3pm/4pm local time, meaning an 8pm/9pm kick-off in those markets, but on the other hand the opposite might be true also of the US market, who will likely be major investors as well in the tournament and would likely want to have the match kick-off later in the day. To give an example, the Super Bowl typically starts at 6:30pm local, so for New Jersey that'd be 11;30pm for the UK. Suffice to say that'd be highly controversial in the UK/European markets especially if a UEFA country reaches the final, which is very likely.

What do you think? Who will win out on this battle especially with FIFA's determination to have a half-time show and to "Americanise" the final (not necessarily a bad thing!)

For me it would be. GF= Goals for GA= Goals against

1. Brazil 2002 (7W, 0D, 0L) GF 18-3 GA
2. Germany 2014 (6W, 1D, 0L) GF 18-4 GA
3. Spain 2010 (6W, 0D, 1L) GF 8-2 GA
4. Italy 2006 (5W, 2D, 0L) GF 12-2 GA
5. France 2018 (6W, 1D, 0L) GF 14-6 GA
6. Argentina 2022 (4W, 2D, 1L) GF 15-8 GA

*to not qualifying

I was going to choose the most upvoted host suggestion but that person put multiple options so I'll let everyone choose

It's between

Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon

Poland and Ukraine

England

Netherlands and Belgium

Which one would you vote for?