The 2026 World Cup Thread

[Baimi]

Lionel Messi leads the 2026 FIFA
World Cup Golden Boot race with five goals, closely followed by Kylian Mbappé and Erling Haaland.
The top scorer standings are heating up after the conclusion of the first two matchdays. The current leaderboard features:
Lionel Messi. 5 goals Argentina
Kylian Mbappe 4 goals France
Erling Haaland 4 goals Norway
Deniz Undav 3 goals Germany
Jonathan David 3 goals Canada

 

[True Believer]

Unlike allegiance to a football club, S'poreans tend to support various national teams at different World Cups. I remember having my own favourites like Holland in 1978, Italy in 1982, France in 1998, South Korea in 2002 and Japan at this year's tournament.

 

[laksaboy]

Why is Senegal shit this year, explained.

 

[Baimi]

L. Messi hold the record with 18 World Cup Final goals.
Kylian Mbappe with 16 goals so far, this record will most likely be broken by him.
He can at least play in 3 more World Cup final, surely France can qualify for the final.

 

[Baimi]

CR7 hold the record of scoring goal in each of the 6 World Cup Final he play.
L. Messi first to break the record of playing in 6 World Cup Final.
However he did not score goal in 2010 World Cup Final in Aftica.

 

[Eisenhut]

Reminder: China is still a fucked up country.

Ahem...didn't CCP produce Liang Wenfeng of deepseek, Lei Jun of Xiaomi, Jack Ma of Alibaba? Isn't Deng xiaoping himself a genius of his time?

The problem with football is , you need to cultivate from grass roots and china lack that grass root cultivation. And also team work, lack of trust in ccp

Individual sports China is doing very good.

In fact the women football team is dominated by North korea, China