***Official 2026 World Cup Thread***

Tons of Bosnians in DSM, be fun to go to a big game watch with everybody’s it happens. Thats if people can behave themselves.
I am friends with quite a few Bosnians. Great culture and pride of America and Bosnia. I'm sure many of them will be torn.
I know they had a game watch at Tito's Lounge in Urbandale recently.
 
Same with the Cedar Valley area. Would be a great atmosphere. In my experience, Bosnians love the game but aren’t likely to have things get ugly in a watch party.

Honestly I wouldn’t be concerned with any one group or another, more that sometimes there is a lone wolf who wants to be a ****.

99% of people have fun with it and want to have a good time. But I’ve been at enough youth sports events to know that sometimes people lose their minds.
 
English are gonna be mad about that one.

Ghana goalie was awesome at the end.

They deserved it, took them 80 mins to figure out they can just start sending it into the box. Could have lost it even, Pickford had 2 saves to make all game and whiffed on both.
 
Now that matchday 2 is almost complete, is there any easy way to tell who the U.S. play in our round of 32 game? Or, do we have to wait until literally every matchday 3 game is done? One of the frustrating things about this expansion to 48.
 
Now that matchday 2 is almost complete, is there any easy way to tell who the U.S. play in our round of 32 game? Or, do we have to wait until literally every matchday 3 game is done? One of the frustrating things about this expansion to 48.

The US can only play someone from Groups B/E/F/I/J.

But, it will depend on which combination of groups the eight 3rd-place teams come from. There's a matrix of almost 500 combinations.
 
Just looked at the schedule for today. Why in the hell have they been spreading games out so much that some start at 11 pm Central, but today they start simultaneous games for every game time? Couldn't they have just staggered them better for the last two weeks?
 
Just looked at the schedule for today. Why in the hell have they been spreading games out so much that some start at 11 pm Central, but today they start simultaneous games for every game time? Couldn't they have just staggered them better for the last two weeks?
They play each groups last group stage games at the same time so teams don’t get an advantage by seeing the other team play before them.
 
Just looked at the schedule for today. Why in the hell have they been spreading games out so much that some start at 11 pm Central, but today they start simultaneous games for every game time? Couldn't they have just staggered them better for the last two weeks?
Final group games are played simultaneously. Supposed to keep other teams in the same group from trying to game the system based on results of the other game.