While Patrick Bruel sang “We said we had an appointment in 10 years” In the middle of the central park, for the renowned French national holiday Bastille Day In the United States, the Metlife Stadium, in the suburbs of New York, made an appointment in a year. It is this same immense pregnant of the giants and the jets (in NFL) which will host the final of the 2026 World Cup (July 19). It will be the very first tournament organized by FIFA with 48 participants, divided into 12 groups of four.
The USA co-organized the “World Cup 26” with Canada and Mexico, but the competition is called in this way because it is competed only in the United States from the quarter-finals. If the Mexican selection has several talented players capable of taking sorting in the top 8, the Americans and the Canadians are much less likely to shine at home. Team USA, directed by Mauricio Pochettino, is in a very disturbing form and its journey to the final of the Gold Cup, for a defeat against Mexico of the eternal Memo Ochoa (2-1), is nothing reassuring …
The three host countries are already qualified and guaranteed to be part of the head of next December. This will allow them to avoid the best selections in the world, namely Argentina, Spain, France, England, Brazil, Portugal, the Netherlands or Germany (if all the European countries cited qualify for the tournament). But updating the FIFA ranking a few days ago, recalls that the three organizers can come across very heavy.
The United States with Italy and Norway?
Canadians, Americans and Mexicans will form, whatever you arrive very open groups, with the possible Croatia, Morocco, Colombia, Uruguay, Japan, Senegale, Swiss, Denmark, Austria and South Korea from the Hat 2. They will also have a lot to do in the hats 3 possibly facing Norway of Erling Haaland, Egypt of Mohamed Salah or Algeria Houssem Aouar. Knowing that they cannot come across Panama and Costa Rica.
Finally, the worst scenario would be to fall, in the 4th and last hat of the draw, on one of the four winners of the European dams. The projections of the X account Football meets data For the moment give Italy, Greece, Serbia and Turkey! Some European countries have already drawn another European adversary and will no longer be able to inherit Azzurri in the group phase. The first two and the best eights will be qualified for the 16th finals of the 2026 World Cup…
