2026 World Cup to have 48 teams, 3 16 team groups?

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  1. Owsley

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    I love that Central/South America are looking to align themselves with Morocco due to us exposing massive corruption within their ranks.
     
  2. Fran Tarkenton

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  3. clemsontyger04

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    Isn't there someone's daughter we can offer a job to ensure a yes vote for the US joint bid? Im not traveling to Russia or Qatar and more than likely wouldn't travel to Morrocco either.
     
  4. Cousin Eddie

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    What a fucking joke. North American WC would be awesome.
     
  5. CoastalOrange

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    Not that anyone expected otherwise, though I am sure some people held out hope, but if the WC goes to Morocco over the joint North America bid then it is safe to assume that FIFA is literally no less corrupt than it was before all these investigations.

    /CaptObvious
     
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  6. enjj

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    Still doubt this happens?
     
  7. MODEVIL

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    Did you see my post on the last page, pal?
     
  8. enjj

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    I did. You even highlighted part of my post and said you doubt that happens. Well now it looks like it’s happening.
     
  9. MODEVIL

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    I posted I was 80-90% and now only 50-50 last Friday. Not sure what you are looking for here.
     
  10. SugarShaun

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    He’s being enjj. Don’t think anything of it
     
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  11. Fran Tarkenton

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  12. NineteenNine

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    If this is true, I completely understand why. Fuck FIFA.

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  13. snowfx2

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    NFL demands for hosting a Super Bowl aren't even that ridiculous.
     
  14. NineteenNine

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    I mean, it’s tantamount to asking for unlimited money laundering for a decade.
     
  15. enjj

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    I was right tho. But that’s ok. Got a doozy little tidbit but I’ll sit on it for now. Wouldn’t want you to doubt me.
     
  16. SugarShaun

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    No you were being dumb then and apparently still are. You were trying to call him out for not changing his mind when in fact he had changed his mind
     
  17. enjj

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    No I called him out for chirping me when he doubted me. And I was right.
     
  18. SugarShaun

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    You’re right you are being weird about something he feels differently about now than he did when he disagreed with you. I’m not sure what you mean he was chirping you.

    You said something, he said he doubted it.

    He later made a post saying he now felt much less confident about that. You then quoted his original post asking him if he still doubted it even though he had clearly already stated otherwise.

    Now you’re being weird and acting like you have some sort of inside info. Stop being weird. No one cares
     
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  19. enjj

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    That’s a long post to say I was right.
     
  20. snowfx2

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  21. Fran Tarkenton

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    looks like Boston, SF, D.C. are the other 3 prospective late stage game sites.
     
  22. zeberdee

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    Boston as in shitty Gillette in the middle of nowhere? eww
     
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  23. DirtBall

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    Hmm, you would think the west coast would get 1 of the 3. I assumed a remodeled Rose Bowl would have the final again.
     
  24. Corky Bucek

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    Or LA's new City of Champions Stadium where the Rams and Chargers will play. It's going to seat 70k and can expand for larger events like a WC.
     
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  25. MODEVIL

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    Maybe it's part of appealing to the European contingent. Shorter travel? Better time zone for them.
     
  26. nexus

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    lol for the first time ever FIFA is giving voters the option to reopen the vote. Sometimes I wish I didn't love the sport and could just laugh as corruption undermines the game

     
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  27. Fran Tarkenton

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  28. Mix

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    Can we just bomb these places?
     
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  29. snowfx2

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    How these tiny countries have so much power within FIFA and CONCACAF is so infuriating.

    I wish we'd break away from the Caribbean part of CONCACAF.
     
  30. elfrid

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    these little baller countries are gonna mess around and piss off western europe one day
     
  31. JGator1

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  32. Thoros of Beer

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    We really should just leave FIFA, we suck anyway.
     
  33. clemsontyger04

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    Its not happening, is it?
     
  34. Mix

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    Why are big countries choosing Morocco? I guess France makes some sense considering location but they will all make less money and play in shit conditions.
     
  35. Fran Tarkenton

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  36. Frank Martin

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    FIFA makes me realize communism doesn’t work.
     
  37. Thoros of Beer

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    if we are dumb enough to have ny/nj as the final site then we don't deserve it
     
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  38. CoastalOrange

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    "The announcements would seem to indicate that the North American bid's base of support among CONCACAF countries isn't as strong as it might have thought. At minimum, it would indicate that resources are needed to shore up support among CONCACAF countries.

    ......"As far as I understand the situation, Morocco is very aggressive with their canvassing," he said. "I think they are working on the theory that with their assistance to the Caribbean at a governmental level, that it can be translated to the national football federations...."

    Amazing. Just amazing.
     
  39. JGator1

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    Stop dancing around it, the Caribbean countries reps are holding out for bribes
     
  40. Thoros of Beer

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    This is what passes for journalism nowadays
     
  41. Mix

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    So we got a country pretty obviously bribing yet again. Soccer is dumb.
     
  42. nexus

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    Need a strong hurricane season to wipe some of these countries off the map. Save us global warming.
     
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  43. DirtBall

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    South America is in

     
  44. SugarShaun

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    The bag men delivered!
     
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  45. MODEVIL

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    doesn't really help since they only have 10 votes - Sepp's Oceananic 11 will deliver for whoever delivers the bags of money.
     
  46. Spontaneous Cumbustion

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    We have more the 10 countries in concacaf that I’ve never heard of that will cancel out those votes.
     
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  47. Thoros of Beer

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    We need to break away with conmebol. They might be corrupt countries but they are our corrupt countries. Let the Caribbean countries go
     
  48. NineteenNine

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    if members of CONCACAF vote against having the WC in their backyard, in not one but THREE fellow CONCACAF member countries, they should be immediately kicked out because that vote makes no fucking sense.
     
  49. MODEVIL

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    :facepalm: not making this about Trump just that FIFA won't respond well to subtle threats