World Cup 2026

Well, this loses us four votes.

FIFA has reason to hate the US, given how we spearheaded the indictments against many of their members. One presumes the vote will come down to leaving money on the table or not, but then again the voting body might find it all too tempting to both A: try to get a piece of all the money needing to be spent in Morocco to build stadiums, and B: stick it to Donald Trump in a "turnabout is fair play" reaction to his basic rejection of the outside world.
 
Well, this loses us four votes.

FIFA has reason to hate the US, given how we spearheaded the indictments against many of their members. One presumes the vote will come down to leaving money on the table or not, but then again the voting body might find it all too tempting to both A: try to get a piece of all the money needing to be spent in Morocco to build stadiums, and B: stick it to Donald Trump in a "turnabout is fair play" reaction to his basic rejection of the outside world.
That’s a crappy turn of events. Those four really just offset the loss of two CONCACAF votes since Mexico and Canada and the US have to abstain as a group, and they marginally dent the (seemingly) thousand delegations that make up the Asian & African confederations.
 
Committed
to Morocco


Algeria
Angola
Belgium
Cameroon
Djibouti
Egypt
France
Gambia
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Lebanon
Libya
Luxembourg
Myanmar
Netherlands
Palestine
Qatar
Russia
Serbia
Seychelles
Uganda


I wasn’t nervous about this vote. Now I’m nervous about this vote.
 
I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep tonight. I'm genuinely nervous about this.
 
I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep tonight. I'm genuinely nervous about this.

Here is how I'm rationalizing it. There is 10x money for FIFA and the federations if they vote for the United Bid. Money is the only thing that matters in this. Having the World Cup in Morocco doesn't do anything for FIFA or federations.

If Morocco gets the vote, FIFA is still corrupt, the federations are corrupt, and it will never be fixed. And I can live knowing that.
 
This might have been discussed in previous pages, but with 3 countries hosting, who gets automatic qualification? Or are we assuming it will be expanded to a much larger field by then anyways?
 
This might have been discussed in previous pages, but with 3 countries hosting, who gets automatic qualification? Or are we assuming it will be expanded to a much larger field by then anyways?

Apparently the FIFA Council will vote to decide that separately.

Historically, the host nation has always automatically qualified for the World Cup – it hasn’t been forced to play games in order to qualify for the tournament.

However, FIFA previously ruled that should the “United bid” beat out Morocco, the number of host countries to automatically qualify for the 2026 World Cup would be decided by another vote by the FIFA council sometime in the future.
 
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