TE24 Sports Desk:
The start of the World Cup 2026 begins decisively on Thursday, as football fans across Canada, Mexico and the United States realize that their urban communities have been asked for a 48-group tournament.
Four years after FIFA selected the tri-nation, North American bidder, the governing body of world football, will announce the host urban communities after being caught up in the mystery of an extended cycle.
According to FIFA, 22 host urban communities are still running this week, with many expecting the United States to see 10 of its competitors selected in the dispute with Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto to the north.
In Mexico, where soccer is less a game than a religion, three competitor urban communities – Guadalajara, Mexico City and Monterrey – are essentially guaranteed the gig. Obviously, anything can occur in front of Thursday’s media scene in New York City.
“Some of the urban communities saw most likely from the start they were a more drawn out shot than others … Five or six urban areas, nearly anyone on the planet would agree, ‘Indeed, obviously they’re important for the bundle’,” previous U.S.
Soccer President Alan Rothenberg, presently executive of Playfly Premier Partnerships, told Reuters. “So the scramble in numerous ways is for different openings.”
Los Angeles, with its breathtaking new $5.5 billion SoFi Stadium is broadly viewed as a conspicuous applicant, as is worldwide center New York, whose joint bid with New Jersey is moored on the 82,500-limit MetLife Stadium.Other competitors incorporate previous 1994 World Cup have urban communities Boston, Dallas, San Francisco, Orlando and Washington, D.C., which consolidated its offered with Baltimore this year.
