villa4europe Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, LondonLax said: If you need three countries (one of which is the USA) to host a 48 team WC competition how is that going to work for future host nations? Its seemingly what they want The UK is bidding for euro 28, for World Cup 30 there's talk of Morocco trying to do either a North African bid or a bid with Spain and Portugal then it'll be Argentina, Uruguay and Chile or Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia The one country tournament is dying a death Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 (edited) The US and a couple more countries has the infrastructure to pull it off. Most countries will not, even if 4 or 5 band together. They are turning the WC into the Olympics where the hosting nations make astronomical losses and jeopardizes enormous sums. Edit: Saudi Arabia will of course have no problem with affording it. Sure they will even pay some countries to co-host it. Edited June 17, 2022 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pas5898 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 30 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Its seemingly what they want The UK is bidding for euro 28, for World Cup 30 there's talk of Morocco trying to do either a North African bid or a bid with Spain and Portugal then it'll be Argentina, Uruguay and Chile or Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia The one country tournament is dying a death I don't think anyone at UEFA or FIFA cares about logistics, deaths of workers, football and most definitely the fans. The financial push of 3/4 countries is greater than 1. It's all about how they / their sponsors make the most money. Anything else, like football, deserving nations etc is completely irrelevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 1 hour ago, villa4europe said: Going back to the stadiums being NFL stadiums I'm sure some of them will be astro turf and not grass, New York stadium is, I'm sure Los Angeles is too, we'll see what happens there, not only in terms of using grass but the stadium managers ability to then make it suitable to play on One of them has already said they will be installing grass for the World Cup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Just now, Zatman said: One of them has already said they will be installing grass for the World Cup I would hope that they all have to! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 9 minutes ago, pas5898 said: I don't think anyone at UEFA or FIFA cares about logistics, deaths of workers, football and most definitely the fans. The financial push of 3/4 countries is greater than 1. It's all about how they / their sponsors make the most money. Anything else, like football, deserving nations etc is completely irrelevant. Are you suggesting that they're hosting a world cup in North America to the benefit of their Chinese TV manufacturer and South Korean Car partners? Very cynical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted June 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 17, 2022 37 minutes ago, villa4europe said: I would hope that they all have to! They will. In 94, one of the cool moves was them putting grass inside the old Silverdome in Detroit. Was pretty unheard of at the time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Am i going crazy was this thread titled brazil and changed to Mexico? Because i replied earlier about mexico andthen it was brazil so i had to wdit my post! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 1 hour ago, villa4europe said: Are you suggesting that they're hosting a world cup in North America to the benefit of their Chinese TV manufacturer and South Korean Car partners? Very cynical Final will be interesting choice of venue. Last time it was in LA and think played midday local time for European audiencea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 11 minutes ago, Zatman said: Final will be interesting choice of venue. Last time it was in LA and think played midday local time for European audiencea LA would make sense again, SoFi is a stunning stadium Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Internet claims that the MetLife stadium in NY will host the final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Should really be the Azteca 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 2 minutes ago, sne said: Internet claims that the MetLife stadium in NY will host the final. Yeah can see that too, big stadium and has the corporate draw from the city Will be classed as New Jersey by then though AT&T is dallas could host it too but doesn't have that corporate angle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted June 17, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted June 17, 2022 2 hours ago, Demitri_C said: Am i going crazy was this thread titled brazil and changed to Mexico? Because i replied earlier about mexico andthen it was brazil so i had to wdit my post! Look below this post. Mod power https://www.villatalk.com/topic/17723-world-cup-2026-mexico-usa-canada/?do=findComment&comment=3805454 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Tegis said: Look below this post. Mod power https://www.villatalk.com/topic/17723-world-cup-2026-mexico-usa-canada/?do=findComment&comment=3805454 So im not going crazy! My original point about mexico was fans safety. Big problems over there with violent crime, and corruption. Id be very concerned to go there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 10 hours ago, Demitri_C said: So im not going crazy! My original point about mexico was fans safety. Big problems over there with violent crime, and corruption. Id be very concerned to go there The US is not great either, and will be worse still if/when Trump wins again. Probably stick to Canada just to be safe. Then again there were loads of concerns before the South Africa and the Brazil WC about fan safety but those went pretty well I think. But yeah, no one's going to get rid of the cartels in time for the WC, or ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 6 hours ago, sne said: The US is not great either, and will be worse still if/when Trump wins again. Probably stick to Canada just to be safe. Then again there were loads of concerns before the South Africa and the Brazil WC about fan safety but those went pretty well I think. But yeah, no one's going to get rid of the cartels in time for the WC, or ever. The cartels are a different level to anything else. I hope the places the games will be in areas not cartel affiliated. I wouldnt step foot there personally. Canada is best option out the three definitely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 Love the idea of more teams in the World Cup. All the best World Cups have plenty of teams that you don’t ordinarily see. I couldn’t care less about seeing Portugal vs France. I wanna see D.R. of Congo vs Peru. I wanna see Cuba scare the shite out of Germany. I want to see Panama vs Egypt. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 1 minute ago, chrisp65 said: Love the idea of more teams in the World Cup. All the best World Cups have plenty of teams that you don’t ordinarily see. I couldn’t care less about seeing Portugal vs France. I wanna see D.R. of Congo vs Peru. I wanna see Cuba scare the shite out of Germany. I want to see Panama vs Egypt. Agree with those teams but not the format, the qualifiers from the group stage will be a mess, for some reason I'm sure I also saw something about the answer for that is going to 3 team groups but surely I've made that up? 16 x 3 team groups with top 2 going through would then give you 32 teams for round 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 18 minutes ago, villa4europe said: Agree with those teams but not the format, the qualifiers from the group stage will be a mess, for some reason I'm sure I also saw something about the answer for that is going to 3 team groups but surely I've made that up? 16 x 3 team groups with top 2 going through would then give you 32 teams for round 2 Nope thats correct, teams are guaranteed 2 games instead of 3 The last group game will be open for dodgy results Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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