FIFA World Cup 2026 - Discussion Thread

So, check this ones. It would be even useful for PES Patchs.

I wonder if it will get updated, Jordan and Germany changed players forced by injury.





 
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bsmaff said:
Also anyone want to do a fun quiz:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c3326d1g7p4o

I scored 70 of 91 but was mainly due to just naming countries than actually knowing the answers.
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88 without even looking at a map, trick was to remember countries that disappeared like USSR, West Germany, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Zaire, Czechoslovakia.
I was pretty sure Latvia qualified once like in 2006 but got that wrong, maybe misspelled it ?
 
just saw the result, I didn't get Koweit right because it's spelled Kuweit actually XD
also forgot to add Cap Verde who qualified to the current WC
the only one I wouldn't have guessed was Salvadore
 
Never been so uninspired for a WC, Qatar was lukewarm, but this is ice cold.
48 countries competing, bet within 2 WC there will be 60 nations.
Plus the fact that refs/players/fans been treated like shit over there.
Will watch every now and then, most likely the play offs
Feel that FIFA has kidnapped the sport .
 
rockstrongo said:
Never been so uninspired for a WC, Qatar was lukewarm, but this is ice cold.
48 countries competing, bet within 2 WC there will be 60 nations.
Plus the fact that refs/players/fans been treated like shit over there.
Will watch every now and then, most likely the play offs
Feel that FIFA has kidnapped the sport .
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Kind of feeling the same. I will watch most of the games, at least to start with. 32 is more than enough teams although, at least on this occasion, with countries like Curacao, Cape Verde etc in there it will at least bring back a bit of the magic of the old world cups when we didn't really know or have even seen some players before.

It would be hilarious if Mexico won it though just for the award ceremony alone.

The whole ticket price and the Fifa ticket tout/sorry exchange thing is nothing short of scandalous though. And we thought it was bad when Sepp Blatter was running it.

We certainly won't be winning it in that heat. I am open to being proven wrong though. :LOL:

Hopefully these goal kick and throw-in 5 second rules are kept to. Absolutely done with all the time wasting in football.
 
mattmid said:
Kind of feeling the same. I will watch most of the games, at least to start with. 32 is more than enough teams although, at least on this occasion, with countries like Curacao, Cape Verde etc in there it will at least bring back a bit of the magic of the old world cups when we didn't really know or have even seen some players before.

It would be hilarious if Mexico won it though just for the award ceremony alone.

The whole ticket price and the Fifa ticket tout/sorry exchange thing is nothing short of scandalous though. And we thought it was bad when Sepp Blatter was running it.

We certainly won't be winning it in that heat. I am open to being proven wrong though. :LOL:

Hopefully these goal kick and throw-in 5 second rules are kept to. Absolutely done with all the time wasting in football.
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Feels like Spain is the top contender for it.
 
Yeees it's that time again! FORZA ITAL...Oh wait, nevermind.
To be honest (and it's not because Italy won't play at this World Cup) I don't feel excited at all. And that's sad because this should be the ultimate football event.
I was way more interested in last year's Club World Cup to be honest.
 
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*aLe said:
Yeees it's that time again! FORZA ITAL...Oh wait, nevermind.
To be honest (and it's not because Italy won't play at this World Cup) I don't feel excited at all. And that's sad because this should be the ultimate football event.
I was way more interested in last year's Club World Cup to be honest.
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Same, I don't feel the World Cup vibe yet
 
One surprising thing after 45 min of WC football (Mex v SA) is the amount of long range shots, you rarely see that in European football.
Nice to see
 
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Mexico v South Africa not a great match. Got livened up with the red cards though lol
I know the rules etc but does anyone else think that the last red card shouldn't have been given. It was a yellow for me. I can't see how it was a clear and obvious goal scoring opportunity when the player was on the corner of the box going away from goal and with like 3 other mexican defenders in the box.
 
This is what I posted in another forum on my thoughts:-

TBH this is probably the least excited I have been about a World Cup.
The reasons for it this time around is nothing to do with hosts but the 48 team format.

It is hard to get excited when there is not a 'Group of Death' or real jeopardy for having a bad couple of games.
8 3rd place teams qualify for the knockouts, so effectively only the bottom team from each group gets eliminated - Some teams might get through with a point..
There is no consequences for a team getting a really bad result as England could lose 2 group games, win 1 and go through to the knock outs.

Then the 1st Knockout will have all the top teams playing a 3rd place team who are going to be poor.
The World Cup is going to be boring and rubbish, till the 2nd knockout games where there might be a couple of decent games.

But it does massively seem like the World Cup isn't going to start till Quarter Finals - When all the top teams finally meet.

I really don't think this tournament is going to have a South Korea or a Morocco - It seems to be designed so it is easier for the top teams to get further.
 
I don't know if it's for the higher number of teams (even though, in all honesty, it also probably plays its role in making it less interesting) or for what's happening around the World Cup which I find disgusting, at times.
 
bsmaff said:
This is what I posted in another forum on my thoughts:-

TBH this is probably the least excited I have been about a World Cup.
The reasons for it this time around is nothing to do with hosts but the 48 team format.

It is hard to get excited when there is not a 'Group of Death' or real jeopardy for having a bad couple of games.
8 3rd place teams qualify for the knockouts, so effectively only the bottom team from each group gets eliminated - Some teams might get through with a point..
There is no consequences for a team getting a really bad result as England could lose 2 group games, win 1 and go through to the knock outs.

Then the 1st Knockout will have all the top teams playing a 3rd place team who are going to be poor.
The World Cup is going to be boring and rubbish, till the 2nd knockout games where there might be a couple of decent games.

But it does massively seem like the World Cup isn't going to start till Quarter Finals - When all the top teams finally meet.

I really don't think this tournament is going to have a South Korea or a Morocco - It seems to be designed so it is easier for the top teams to get further.
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I hate the thought of it but it would actually have been better to have 64 teams and 16 groups with just the top 2 going through than the 48 team format.
 
What I am enjoying so far and hope it's all going to be implemented here is the getting rid of a lot of the time wasting. I only saw highlights of the South Korea game but the two I've watched so far, not a single physio on the pitch apart from one that became a sub. Amazing how these players suddenly don't need treatment when there's a minute to spend off the pitch. Of course the question like all these rules is will they end up going by the wayside? As I said, I really hope it gets implemented here because the constant time wasting is killing the enjoyment of football as if it wasn't waning enough with the endless passing side to side crap.
 
mattmid said:
I hate the thought of it but it would actually have been better to have 64 teams and 16 groups with just the top 2 going through than the 48 team format.
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Even with that possible expansion, this World Cup is still absolute garbage. Coupled with the increased risk of player injuries and fatigues due to the more World Cup games.

bsmaff said:
It is hard to get excited when there is not a 'Group of Death' or real jeopardy for having a bad couple of games.
8 3rd place teams qualify for the knockouts, so effectively only the bottom team from each group gets eliminated - Some teams might get through with a point..
There is no consequences for a team getting a really bad result as England could lose 2 group games, win 1 and go through to the knock outs.
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For the record, Portugal in Euro 2016 went on to win the entire thing. That was all albeit with disappointing campaign they had. 3 draws in the group stage, barely finishing as one of the best 3rd place teams, and only won 1 game after regular time throughout that tournament (the semifinal vs Wales).

Also, I don't know why Sweden made through the World Cup given how disastrous the qualification performance they had. While Italy didn't even made through the World Cup with this expanded format, adding to that 2 previous World Cups they failed to qualify.
 
This isn't the Malik Tillman that I have watched for Leverkusen this season.
 
Also, I've seen many people dropping a lot about the World Cup predictions even before the tournament had been started, so I'm gonna go ahead with my own:

Group A: Mexico and South Korea (they won their group openers, and will meet each other in the 2nd game, but I still predicted both to finish Top 2)
Group B: Switzerland, Canada and Bosnia-Herzegovina
Group C: Brazil, Morocco and Scotland
Group D: Turkey and USA
Group E: Germany, Ivory Coast and Ecuador
Group F: Netherlands, Japan and Sweden
Group G: Belgium, Egypt and Iran
Group H: Spain and Uruguay
Group I: France, Senegal and Norway
Group J: Argentina, Austria and Algeria
Group K: Portugal and Colombia
Group L: England, Croatia and Ghana

Huge favorites will be Spain, France or Argentina, but Spain are expected to have their best shot just like when they won the Euros 2 years ago. I would also be excited to see Mexico being the best co-hosts in this World Cup and the dark horse, aside from the 2022 semifinalist Morocco and Japan. Germany will be eliminated in the Round of 16 and England will go out in the quarterfinal.
 
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