Men's Football FIFA World Cup 2026

[bestmen 2,926]

Bosniaaaaa 

 

and + another African team 

[bestmen 2,926]

Switzerland will lead the group easily 

[bestmen 2,926]

England lost 1-0 vs Japan 

Nipon will surprise us 

[Topicmaster1010 6,612]

Italy makes the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic but fails to qualify for the World Cup.

 

What a world we live in.

[bestmen 2,926]

10 African teams ,the max of max but will they get their visa !!?  Trump will reduce this number 

[hoversaBR 883]

15 minutes ago, bestmen said:

England lost 1-0 vs Japan 

Nipon will surprise us 

Every World Cup people say Japan will surprise everyone. Let's see if they do this time.

[Swewi 510]

7 hours ago, intoronto said:

Lol Sweden qualifies without a win during the group stage. Europe gets way too many teams !!!11

I think definately with 48 teams it is not too many with 16.

 

however I can accept that Swedens route was not deserved. The problem (or good for Sweden)  is that they award teams in Europa league C division. Iof we did not fail in the B division we would probably not have won a playoff spot from B league. Maybe a Genius move from our former national coach😂

[Monzanator 5,135]

 beats  2-1 and is the last team to advance to the finals.

[phelps 8,754]

10 hours ago, Faramir said:

Problem is, that the current funding system of Italian sports - since 2018- relies on football paying the lion's share through taxes (around 70% of the sum that is redistributed). So the rest is strong until it can draw money from football, which in turn makes football weaker and less able to generate money and then who knows. 

there's always the chance to change that

just take 5-7% of the Superenalotto prize money and you have fixed the problem (and coni gets more money than ever)

[phelps 8,754]

9 hours ago, Josh said:

Your most ever at a Summer Olympics was 14 golds, 20 would be a big increase even with the new sports  I’d say out of them, only costal rowing has a chance of gold, and flag football a medal if they can qualify. 

 

Wouldn’t breaking the 14 from 1984 be a good for Italy? I’d say so. They can’t all convert after all, and you’ve been hovering in the 8-13 range for a while (although Italy has gotten better the past two)
 

For Canada at least, 11+ golds would be amazing, anything else would be a bonus. We won 9 in Tokyo which is our highest total ever. 

in Paris we got 40 medals and 12 golds and we had disappointing campaigns in quite a few disciplines

we should have got the 15/50 already 2 years ago and we're on the raising curve in a few sports

tbh, as it is right now, that 20/50 target is definitely realistic, maybe a bit optimistic, but realistic