I love that the 2026 World Cup will be here but the expansion is a joke

Nov 22, 2022
11:35:39am

CameronG Redshirt Freshman

16 groups of 3 teams each and 2 advance to the knockouts? Sounds like American sports where leagues basically want everybody to make the playoffs.

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There will be no ties in the 2026 World Cup. Yes, you can fix soccer.

Hotlanta

11/22/22 11:32am

There will still be a group stage in 2026....

paulb

11/22/22 11:33am

And no Ties. Straight to PKs after 90.

Hotlanta

11/22/22 11:34am

I somehow missed that....

paulb

11/22/22 11:35am

Unless I missed something that was proposed, but far from approved.

shoganai

11/22/22 11:36am

Yeah, I'm going to need to see a source on that one

BYU Fan

11/22/22 11:37am

I've been looking for one, can't find one.

paulb

11/22/22 11:37am

I guess I didn't vet the reliability of this source, but here

Hotlanta

11/22/22 11:39am

I think Infantino suggested it when people pointed out that the 16x3 format

shoganai

11/22/22 11:39am

I love that the 2026 World Cup will be here but the expansion is a joke

CameronG

11/22/22 11:35am

I expect they'll end up actually doing 12 groups of four.

shoganai

11/22/22 11:37am

When the last two games of a group aren't played at the same time, you can have

paulb

11/22/22 11:43am

Exactly, more collusion happening between countries

CameronG

11/22/22 12:06pm

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