FIFA WORLD CUP 2026

[Wrangler]

I hear this reason all the time but baseball is low scoring and so is ice hockey and they're 2 of the big 4 sports in the states

Legacy with baseball. If you look at ball parks, they are mostly empty nowadays. No generational transfer of enthusiasm.

While I agree hockey is part of the Big 4 sports in America, it is a distant 4th.

 

[Armour of God]

lol, I did wonder - but thought I would add my comments anyway.
Lets see who gets knocked out first , Australia , USA , England , I suppose I had better add Scotland.

Australia will get knocked out first.
We are good at sports but not football.

Did you have to mention Maradona - that was such a frustrating match to watch.
I was quite young in 66 and not really into football, but must admit the game was played much better back in the day. I remember Johan Cruyff.
Use to admire Pele

The game is still played well today i reckon. Maybe it's a bit more defensive. Most players that played against Pelé say he was the best. I've heard Bobby Charlton say he was the best among others.

It was always a conversation between Pelé and Maradona. But now it's a conversation between Messi and Ronaldo.

Given my Portuguese background I've always followed Ronaldo and I reckon his the greatest to ever play. His scored most international goals, most champions league goals and most total goals, almost 1,000 in total.

But it's a matter of opinion and will always be debated. That's the beauty of it

 

[ProDeo]

Ha good question.
I've seen goals like that scored before. The ball hits the underside of the crossbar and creates heaps of spin causing the ball to bounce away from the goal.
In the end England won 4-2 anyway, they won the 66 world cup fair and square.

For me the most controversial world cup goal will always be Maradona's hand of god against Engalnd in 86. It would never have stood with today's VAR technology.

So Maradonna used his hand ?

PS, I just noticed your Dutch.
The orange ones. Maybe the best football nation never to win a world cup. They were good in the 70s with Johan Cruyff, reached the final a few times but never won it. As a kid Van Basten was one of my favourite players and I loved the Dutch team of the 90s

The Dutch lost 3 finals, typical Dutch inferiority complex, we are such a tiny country on the map reaching the final is already fantastic. With such an attitude you never win. Nowadays the good times (for decades) are over. Current Dutch team nothing special.

 

[ProDeo]

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