World Cup '26 qualifiers discussion

[L3v1s]

The bracket is clear:
- Germany or France against Spain the SF of the left side
- England/Brazil against Argentina or Italy/Portugal the SF of the right side

I would love to see Germany-SPain, England-Argentina

England-Argentina would be hotheaded for sure.

Pundits were confused, asking themselves "what are we going to talk about when Haiti and Capo Verde games are on? Politics?".

I'm also putting Suriname up there. It's the Dutch school of football facing Bolivian Primera and the Iraqi league.

I know many countries will cherish the fact that its their first tournament but the sacrifice in quality is huge.

The Surinamese might not have top players but atleast all their squad is playing in Europe, even if its the Cypriot division.

 

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[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

That's way to many teams/groups....

Yeah R32 is too much, too many games on a day.

Worst thing though is the time, damn these will be short nights for us

 

[Loki]

Yeah R32 is too much, too many games on a day.

Worst thing though is the time, damn these will be short nights for us

Did you ever think about the smaller countries? Let them play and enjoy too bro, football is for everyone, not just the elite! I'd even increase the groups and do R64. Time is no issue, invite all of the world for all I care, just take another month for the WC and you fit it in easy enough. CWC showed you don't need any summer break anyways and leagues shouldn't make a big fuss, they can play more efficiently like every 3rd day.

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

Did you ever think about the smaller countries? Let them play and enjoy too bro, football is for everyone, not just the elite! I'd even increase the groups and do R64. Time is no issue, invite all of the world for all I care, just take another month for the WC and you fit it in easy enough. CWC showed you don't need any summer break anyways and leagues shouldn't make a big fuss, they can play more efficiently like every 3rd day.

You should mark that its irony, after reading the first 2 sentences i thought the cold weather made you crazy in your head 🤣

 

[Loki]

You should mark that its irony, after reading the first 2 sentences i thought the cold weather made you crazy in your head 🤣

No I'm serious. Football today is more mainstream entertainment than actual sport. Between allowing all kind of dirty money to flow into football, that inflated it higher than the Venezuelan currency, sell own games and tournaments to rich dictatorships, invent political prices to make corrupt narcissistic politicians happy, decrease the quality of the sport by forcing more games each year, do halftime shows, allow tournaments in winter, so players and fans don't die in some desert shithole from the heat, ignore mass dieing slave workers building stadiums and and and and.

Why should we stop here now with the WC? We're way beyond the point of no return, it's absurd to think otherwise. All that counts is entertainment and money, nothing else. So fuck the qualifiers and invite the whole world to be happy together, isn't that the whole idea about it?

 

[Rassvet]

Did you ever think about the smaller countries? Let them play and enjoy too bro, football is for everyone, not just the elite! I'd even increase the groups and do R64. Time is no issue, invite all of the world for all I care, just take another month for the WC and you fit it in easy enough. CWC showed you don't need any summer break anyways and leagues shouldn't make a big fuss, they can play more efficiently like every 3rd day.

Yeah I would rather just have 64 team world cup and 32 team euro with groups of 4 than current format.

Gives more countries opportunity to qualify and makes bracket simpler without all these weird 3rd place combinations. I saw on wiki there's 495 possible 3rd places combinations and matchups for the coming WC.

 

[soul24rage]

@soul24rage opinion?

Seeing the confirmed scheduled for Argentina, could have been better, but better than other groups imo

Logistics speaking, it's great, it's as close as it gets to Miami's training complex for Argentina.

Difficult knockout stages though - this is only thinking if Argentina gets top of the group but even then Algeria are fast and physical. Austria is well-coached under Ragnick and there is a reason why they were top of the group in Euros 2024 that contained France, Netherlands and Poland.

Obviously, there is the possibility facing of facing Spain or Uruguay in the round of 32. Uruguay is in real bad run of form currently but they have the talent and the passion to turn up on their day. Uruguay vs Saudi will be key imo.

Then a possibility of facing the host of the USA team who are finding their mojo.

Then a QF with possibly Portugal/Italy/Colombia. Not going to talk about the SF and Final.

All in all, a very difficult knockout stage possibility for Argentina

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

Seeing the confirmed scheduled for Argentina, could have been better, but better than other groups imo

Logistics speaking, it's great, it's as close as it gets to Miami's training complex for Argentina.

Difficult knockout stages though - this is only thinking if Argentina gets top of the group but even then Algeria are fast and physical. Austria is well-coached under Ragnick and there is a reason why they were top of the group in Euros 2024 that contained France, Netherlands and Poland.

Obviously, there is the possibility facing of facing Spain or Uruguay in the round of 32. Uruguay is in real bad run of form currently but they have the talent and the passion to turn up on their day. Uruguay vs Saudi will be key imo.

Then a possibility of facing the host of the USA team who are finding their mojo.

Then a QF with possibly Portugal/Italy/Colombia. Not going to talk about the SF and Final.

All in all, a very difficult knockout stage possibility for Argentina

Ok fair opinion, imo group is great, unlucky in R32 but as you say Uru is crap at the moment

Dont know how good Algeria is, only remember in 2014 they gave Germany a tough battle

If you meet Portugal in quarterfinal you guys dont have to think about SF and Final anymore....

Anyways, im hyped but hate it that the draws were so early and now we have to wait 6 months until it begins

 

[soul24rage]

Ok fair opinion, imo group is great, unlucky in R32 but as you say Uru is crap at the moment

Dont know how good Algeria is, only remember in 2014 they gave Germany a tough battle

If you meet Portugal in quarterfinal you guys dont have to think about SF and Final anymore....

Anyways, im hyped but hate it that the draws were so early and now we have to wait 6 months until it begins

Yeah, I mostly care about the knockout phases for this particular WC.

I'll be seeing some Algeria games in the African Cup later this month in the knockout phases if they make it that far.

If we beat Portugal in the QF, then SF and Final will be a breeze so absolutely no reason to think about it.

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

Yeah, I mostly care about the knockout phases for this particular WC.

I'll be seeing some Algeria games in the African Cup later this month in the knockout phases if they make it that far.

If we beat Portugal in the QF, then SF and Final will be a breeze so absolutely no reason to think about it.

what do you mean with breeze, easy or tough?

 

[soul24rage]

what do you mean with breeze, easy or tough?

easy

 

[Fati_Future_BallonDor]

easy

Colombia vs Portugal at 1:30 a.m. 😭

 

[Jenks]

England-Argentina would be hotheaded for sure.

I kinda wonder about that. I wonder if the younger players even know there's bad blood there.