FIFA World Cup 2026 thread

[HoonDing]

"When you look at football in the US, soccer in the US, we seem to never call it that because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that's called football. But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called football? We have to come up with another name for the NFL" - Donald J. Drump

[rjshae]

Our President won his first participation trophy. He must be very proud.

[rjshae]

At first I wondered why there's a draw for the first round, since the remainder are all random anyway. But now it makes sense: the first round draw determines the possible opponents after leaving the group stage.

I don't see an obvious group of death this time; maybe the closest is group L, with picks in the top three of pots 2-4.

[Zoraptor]

New Zealand is all set to continue her unbeaten (since 1982!) run at football world cups by humbling Egypt, Iran and Belgium.

[rjshae]

USA gets to play Australia in Seattle. Should be fun!

[Malcador]

Y'know things are weird when Blatter sounds good next to Infantino.  Also Iran is going to play at least one game in the US, hopefully ICE Commandos don't nab them all.

9 hours ago, rjshae said:

At first I wondered why there's a draw for the first round, since the remainder are all random anyway. But now it makes sense: the first round draw determines the possible opponents after leaving the group stage.

I don't see an obvious group of death this time; maybe the closest is group L, with picks in the top three of pots 2-4.

Yep, Group F could be tricky.  Germany got an easy draw, but they are choke artists of late so who the hell knows.   Canada could end up with Italy, or more likely Northen Ireland.Ideally would be 64 teams in the Cup. Have a good, wha

Edited 1 hour ago by Malcador