Quote from: Agbe on December 14, 2024, 05:55:12 PM

Quote from: Sithara007 on December 14, 2024, 04:49:22 PM

What we saw in 2022 is a clear indication. The gap between well established teams and relatively new teams is getting narrower. Morocco, Senegal, Australia and Cameroon are now capable of defeating superpowers such as Brazil and Portugal. And this actually justifies the expansion of the FIFA World Cup to 32 teams in 1998, and further to 48 teams in 2026. Football continues to expand and remains the most popular sport in the globe, and that too by a huge margin. And the expansion of the tournament to 48 teams reflect this reality.

Exactly and mostly teams like Morocco were doing great job in the World Cup and I strongly believed they are going to do wonderful team work in the 2026 World Cup. And there are some team we know will not do well in the group stages. If I am not mistaken Portugal was defeated by Morocco though I can't really recall every game again. But the World Cup was awesome and this coming one will be super awesome. In the World Cup, the strong teams thought they would beat the others like other Yes but things turn around. This World Cup we are going to see another dimension of games. Because more skillful players have been added to various teams.

Due to recent development now we have few exciting teams which can make their mark in FIFA World Cup which is surely interesting because now we have many big names like Brazil, Germany and Italy are going down so new arrivals will give something special to fans even as we have performance of the Morocco and few other countries from African region we can expect first time we will have new World Champion from other than Europe or South America which could be another huge landmark for them.

Recently I am following few teams which are doing good job and have good chance of going through into this event as outsider Morocco and Japan are teams to watch for surprises with few top teams are now heading for end of their glory days.