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Quote from: gagux123 on Today at 05:51:51 AM

Unfortunately I confess, this is true! lol Modric was onfire
An important point that was decisive for Croatia is that Brazil was extremely unresponsive after Croatia goal.
Brazil was destabilized and emotionally affected, especially on penalties

Apart from Luka Modric, there are four other players who also played a role in helping Croatia finish third at the Qatar World Cup. Brazil, which is considered a strong candidate at the Qatar World Cup, had to admit Croatia's superiority through a penalty shoot-out after a draw in normal and extra time. LOL

Quote from: gagux123 on Today at 05:51:51 AM

I confess don't have a definite answer
I believe... in 2026 it could be Neymar's last cup.
And I also imagine, the 2022 World Cup was the last one for Cristiano Ronaldo and Messi (although, they still have physical preparation and a lot of technique and skill

Brazil has always been able to produce talented players in any position and if you look at the age of Neymar at this time then the 2026 world cup will be the last. Because at this time many other young players are showing almost the same quality as Neymar and they just need the opportunity to play and maybe Copa America will be a place for young players to gain the trust of coaches.

At least if in the future World Cup Neymar is still the player of choice, they can enter as a substitute in the squad and I don't think the quality of Brazilian players need to be doubted, but usually young players who are owned by Brazil are more emotional and cannot control their emotions during play, so coaches should try to give them opportunities when the time is right and have senior players guiding them.

But I didn't think if Brazil got enough good players for the next world cup and I feel worried about them because their famous players like Neymar are not in a good situation at all he is also getting old which can be a reason to say Brazil will bot strong team in next world cup unless something changes.

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Quote from: gagux123 on June 09, 2023, 11:42:08 AM

The World Cup in Qatar it was a watershed (in my opinion)
I could never imagine that a country with Muslim traditions could host an event like the World Cup.

In 2026, I'm almost sure that several national teams will surprise the whole world.
Year after year, countries around the world are taking football seriously as a serious sport.
They are training more, some countries are investing in football and teaching young people and children to practice this sport.

In my life I would never have imagined that Morocco would be able to participate in a World Cup semi-final (I'm not putting it down, but that was something unbelievable)
Germany was easily eliminated and had a poor performance in the 2018 and 2022 cup.
Italy did not participate in the last world cups (2018-2022)
Croatia beating Brazil sensationally (2022)

I will be very curious to know how the 2026 world cup will be!
I have no doubt that we will have several surprises, and I am sure that several teams will be more prepared and evolved in relation to this last world cup that we had.

I agree with you but not completely.
We have many other Muslim countries that can host the world cup and there is not any problem in their country when they host it if they really make rules for the visitors for their country and don't make them obey the Islam rules, I think Qatar could do the same they could make exceptions for the visitors.
Also, I think Qatar is not guilty and we can't blame this country for what happened in 2022 because FIFA made a mistake by letting them host the world cup because Qatar had no potential for hosting the world cup at all and it was a main reason for us to say we should blame FIFA instead of Qatar for the 2022 world cup.

It's not about the "culture", it's not about religion neither, it's about politics. If Qatar wanted to, they could have let anyone be anyway they want, there was a woman who got famous (and that was her aim) by wearing clothes Qatar didn't want, and they didn't jail her for it, nothing really happened to her, which shows that they can let it be if they want to, did anything happen? But, I can guarantee you that there will be more people like that on the next one.

The question is not public, it's government based and if government allows people then nothing changes and it can be exactly the same anywhere, it's all about the laws. I think 2026 will be pretty amazing, we are going to see football and fans as it should be, I don't want to see hooligans, but I also do not want to see this neither, and USA is the middle of it, just cheering and that's about it, nothing major I believe.

I agree with you, it's not because of the religion and even their culture, Qatar made many mistakes while their culture and traditions are also against it.

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Quote from: Wakate on June 09, 2023, 11:47:43 PM

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This is very funny to me because I can't still understand what you mean that Quatar killed a lot for workers just to build a shiny stadium. Many of the countries that had been hosting the world cup always build a stadium for it because they know that it will bring center if attraction to them and make people that likes to go on vacation to see good reasons of coming to there country for flexing and holiday. Since the United States and Canada would be hosting the world cup, I hope to see impressive stadium and enough space for people to enjoy themselves.

Well, the US and Mexico already have hosted the world cup in the past, so I guess the pressure of new stadiums would be mostly for Canada.

Even though there will be only a few matches in Canada and Mexico, most of the matches are going to be in the US, which already have a reasonable amount of stadiums.

I don't think there will be many new stadiums built for that world cup.

I don't know about that but just like what you have said, only few games will be played in both Canada and Mexico so they might stick to what they have instead of building stadiums that will probably waste them more money instead of benefitting from the event, but maybe there will be some few changes in their existing stadiums like increasing the capacities if they can and make it more luxurious as not every time they can host such event.

The main host is America because compared to the two other countries they have more facilities and they have a better potential for the world cup, two other countries will just be America because there will be more teams and more games in the next world cup.