WC26 Simulator

Mexico

2026: the host playing for its narrative

Being a host doesn’t qualify you for anonymity—it qualifies you for the spotlight. Mexico heads into the 2026 World Cup with the logistical upside of playing at home and the emotio...

Canada

2026: The host that learned how to compete

Canada will arrive at the 2026 World Cup with a privilege that also feels like a demand: hosting. That changes the gauge immediately. There is no qualifying table to climb, no home...

Brazil

The long qualifying grind that forged a sharper edge

Belém opened the story like a carnival drumline: Brazil 5–1 Bolivia, goals arriving in waves, a scoreboard that looked like it belonged to a different decade. Rodrygo struck twice,...

United States

2026: the host searching for a winning identity 🏟️

The United States will arrive at the 2026 World Cup with a condition that changes everything: it doesn’t need to earn the ticket, but it does need to earn belief. Hosting removes t...

Germany

Germany ⚔️: the reset that became a stampede

There are qualifiers that feel like paperwork, and others that feel like a story with chapters, mood swings, and a final scene that rewrites the first page. Germany’s road through ...

Netherlands

The Netherlands, the qualifier in furious orange: goals, a firm jaw and a direct ticket to the World Cup

They didn’t tiptoe into the road to 2026. The Netherlands kicked the door open, then calmly held it there. One part swagger, one part method: the kind of run that makes group table...

Belgium

The Red Devils arrive with a cannon for a right foot and a calculator for the table

Belgium’s qualifying story reads like a team that never fully takes its foot off the pedal, even when the match tries to drag it into the mud. There were nights of open-hood chaos,...

Spain

From qualifying bulldozer to World Cup Group H headliner

The first thing Spain did in this qualifying campaign was to take the room’s oxygen. Not with speeches or slogans, but with goals—early ones, repeated ones, the kind that turn away...

France

, the qualifier that never blinked

The first image is almost always the same: France walking into a qualifying window like it owns the air in the stadium. Not with speeches, not with theatrical promises—just with th...

Argentina

the long run, the short margins, the World Cup horizon

There are teams that qualify by accumulating points like loose change: a draw here, a narrow win there, and a final sprint once the calendar starts to bite. Argentina did it differ...

Portugal

The group-stage heat is real

Portugal’s route to the 2026 World Cup has felt like a series with plot twists written in bold ink: a spectacular opening act, a couple of chapters where the pen trembled, and then...

England

🏴 Three Lions on rails toward 2026

Wembley, Birmingham, Belgrade, Riga, Tirana: England’s route to the World Cup did not need mystery to feel like a journey. It needed only repetition. The same script, eight times. ...