US, Mexico, and Canada to Co-Host 2026 World Cup

México deserves it. Fucking casuals in USA cant even qualify this year.



Americans call it soccer. Wow 2022 and 2026 are lame. though US is way better than qatar

Should be in mexico. Or have belgium, netherlands, share one with luxembourg but it mostly in belgium and netherlands. Or maybe england ireland share one lol




england would be cool. cant believe they did one in chile in 1962. and they did uruguay a long time ago. Now days i dont see such smaller countries getting it. Qatar just bought it way in with tons of money.
Chile and Uruguay are massive football countries
 
Would it be accurate to say that most, if not all, of the people who are arguing so passionately about the hosting cities and stadiums for the 2026 World Cup never even bothered to look at the actual candidate list of hosting cities and stadiums for the 2026 World Cup? o_O
Well you would die of old age before reading just 1 of your posts.
 
Well you would die of old age before reading just 1 of your posts.

American adults have low (and declining) reading proficiency
By BY HECTOR TOBAR | OCT 08, 2013

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The reading skills of American adults are significantly lower than those of adults in most other developed countries, according to a new international survey.

What's more, over the last two decades Americans' reading proficiency has declined across most age groups, and has only improved significantly for 65-year-olds.

The study of 160,000 people by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which is composed of two dozen developed nations, found that U.S. adults had reading levels that were below average, and lagged far behind those of Japan (which scored at the top), several Scandinavian countries, Australia and Korea. Test takers in Spain, Italy, Ireland and several other countries hardest hit by the Great Recession scored lower than Americans did.

Americans also scored lower than average in math and technological problem solving.

"It's long been known that America's school kids haven't measured well compared with international peers," the Associated Press wrote in a survey of the study. "Now, there's a new twist: Adults don't either." And it appears students who leave high school without certain basic skills are not learning those skills later in adult education or job training programs.

Dolores Perin, professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, told the AP that the report provides a "good basis for an argument there should be more resources to support adults with low literacy."

Perusing deeper into the study (it's available for download), one finds a table in which the results of two literacy tests, given in 1994 and 2012 are compared. People in their thirties and forties in 2012 scored significantly lower than people in their same age group in 1994. The drop among 30-year-olds was less dramatic.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacket...roficiency-20131008-story.html?outputType=amp
 
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So how are they going to handle the CONCACAF qualification?

3 co-host means 3 automatic entrance into the World Cup yes? USA, Mexico and Canada... CONCACAF has a total of 3.5 slots generally (0.5 is a playoff).

So is there a tourney for only 1 spot for CONCACAF or are other confederation losing some spots for this?
 
So how are they going to handle the CONCACAF qualification?

3 co-host means 3 automatic entrance into the World Cup yes? USA, Mexico and Canada... CONCACAF has a total of 3.5 slots generally (0.5 is a playoff).

So is there a tourney for only 1 spot for CONCACAF or are other confederation losing some spots for this?

The system is being revamped. The increased pool size to 48 teams mean each confederation are getting a few more spots:


New qualification system including a Word Cup play-off tournament

The expansion to 48 teams has been a key plank of Gianni Infantino’s policy at Fifa. It expands the number of places at the finals available to teams of every confederation, including guaranteeing that a team from Oceania will always make the cut. The new allocation of spaces is:

AFC (Asia) – eight places (up from 4.5)
Caf (Africa) – nine places (up from 5)
Concacaf (North and Central America) – six places, of which three go to hosts (up from 3.5)
Conmebol (South America) – six places (up from 4.5)
OFC (Oceania) – one place (up from 0.5)
Uefa (Europe) – 16 places (up from 13)

In addition there will be two final spots available from a new World Cup play-off mini-tournament.

https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...teams-how-the-2026-world-cup-will-work-united
 
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What's a piss up?
its like a salon where learned people gather to discuss literature over a gin and tonic, some poetry is recited, and a critique of cultural happenings is conducted over petit fours.
also the world cup is awesome, keeps the bullshit out of decent sports like rugby
 
Chile and Uruguay are massive football countries

i know that but given how many years ago it was 1930 uruguay and 1962 chile. The populations were way smaller than today and not good air travel. I just imagine they would of done it in argentina in 1962 or brazil. I guess uruguay in 1930 okay it not like most world watch it like today they just hear results.
 
Which gets to my original point the sacrifices made to host one off mega events (Olympics and World Cup.. To lesser extent SB) do not bring the requisite EI to offset the money spent. An economy like the US can handle the losses but as we see with South Africa and the World Cup or Athens and the Olympics for example, they are in much worse shape post world cup/Olympics for their working class. It can ruin a city/country financially
South Africa and Greece had MANY problems to begin with, hosting the Olympics/World Cup was just a symptom of shitty decision making
 
That would be awesome if I actually enjoyed soccer. Maybe if the field wasn't so fucking massive.
 
Toronto hwy's shut down when someone gets a flat tire, I really hope they don't host any games here -- the Pan Am games a few years ago were a disaster
 
American adults have low (and declining) reading proficiency
By BY HECTOR TOBAR | OCT 08, 2013

BCVHSYLZRRGSJPXI7TJWXAW26Y.jpg

The reading skills of American adults are significantly lower than those of adults in most other developed countries, according to a new international survey.

What's more, over the last two decades Americans' reading proficiency has declined across most age groups, and has only improved significantly for 65-year-olds.

The study of 160,000 people by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which is composed of two dozen developed nations, found that U.S. adults had reading levels that were below average, and lagged far behind those of Japan (which scored at the top), several Scandinavian countries, Australia and Korea. Test takers in Spain, Italy, Ireland and several other countries hardest hit by the Great Recession scored lower than Americans did.

Americans also scored lower than average in math and technological problem solving.

"It's long been known that America's school kids haven't measured well compared with international peers," the Associated Press wrote in a survey of the study. "Now, there's a new twist: Adults don't either." And it appears students who leave high school without certain basic skills are not learning those skills later in adult education or job training programs.

Dolores Perin, professor of psychology and education at Teachers College, Columbia University, told the AP that the report provides a "good basis for an argument there should be more resources to support adults with low literacy."

http://www.latimes.com/books/jacket...roficiency-20131008-story.html?outputType=amp

*BJ Penn nah*

We don’t do bad in reading: above the OECD average, virtually identical to Sweden, Denmark, Taiwan and Belgium. Not too bad when you consider we have the deep Red states dragging us down.

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What we suck balls at is math. Must be why we keep falling for Reaganomics.
 
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3 countries? Why? That'll only make it harder for the fans, it will be even more expensive to follow your favorite nation around. That's just stupid.
 
Hopefully they will host multiple games in Orlando. That would be fucking sick to see some games.
 
Here are the potential host cities and venues for the 2026 World Cup:

United States (10 to be selected)
  • Atlanta (Mercedes-Benz Stadium): Capacity: 71,000
  • Baltimore (M&T Bank Stadium): Capacity: 71,006
  • Boston (Gillette Stadium): Capacity: 65,878 (Expandable to 70,000)
  • Cincinnati (Paul Brown Stadium): Capacity: 65,515 (Expandable to 67,402)
  • Dallas (AT&T Stadium): Capacity: 80,000
  • Denver (Sports Authority Field at Mile High): Capacity: 76,125 (Expandable to 77,595)
  • Houston (NRG Stadium): Capacity: 71,795 (Expandable to 72,220)
  • Kansas City (Arrowhead Stadium): Capacity: 76,416
  • Los Angeles (Rose Bowl): Capacity: 92,000
  • Miami (Hard Rock Stadium): Capacity: 64,767 (Expandable to 67,518)
  • Nashville (Nissan Stadium): Capacity: 69,143 (Expandable to 75,000)
  • New York/New Jersey (MetLife Stadium): Capacity: 82,500 (Expandable to 87,157)
  • Orlando (Camping World Stadium): Capacity: 60,219 (Expandable to 65,000)
  • Philadelphia (Lincoln Financial Field): Capacity: 69,176 (Expandable to 69,328)
  • San Francisco (Levi's Stadium): Capacity: 68,500 (Expandable to 75,000)
  • Seattle (CenturyLink Field): Capacity: 69,000 (Expandable to 72,000)
  • Washington, D.C. (FedExField): Capacity: 82,000
Mexico (3 venues)
  • Guadalajara (Estadio Akron): Capacity: 46,232 (Expandable to 48,071)
  • Mexico City (Estadio Azteca): Capacity: 87,523
  • Monterrey (Estadio BBVA Bancomer): Capacity: 53,500
Canada (3 venues)
  • Edmonton (Commonwealth Stadium): Capacity: 56,302
  • Montreal (Olympic Stadium): Capacity: 61,004 (Expandable to 73,000)
  • Toronto (BMO Field): Capacity: 30,000 (Expandable to 45,500)
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/wo...ies-in-usa-mexico-and-canada-going-to-be/amp/

Well you would die of old age before reading just 1 of your posts.

Maybe if you actually made a point instead of being a link machine. Who gives a fuck about 3 pages of links. People can Google you know.

What the actual fuck are you rambling about?!? o_O
 
Which gets to my original point the sacrifices made to host one off mega events (Olympics and World Cup.. To lesser extent SB) do not bring the requisite EI to offset the money spent. An economy like the US can handle the losses but as we see with South Africa and the World Cup or Athens and the Olympics for example, they are in much worse shape post world cup/Olympics for their working class. It can ruin a city/country financially

Well in the USA and Canada case, they will just have to use the football stadiums. They wont have to change anything. The ones we both have should have enough seats albeit not close to the pitch, but oh well. Mexico though will have plenty of proper stadiums. They should have more games there.
 
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