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.