48 teams is way too many. Just decreases the quality of those initial games. It'll be almost certainly the same teams at the end anyway. Just pads it all out and adds some nations that field Championship level teams to get bopped by France so that Mbappe can claim the all time WC goalscorer record before he's 30
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Reply to 2026 World Cup Will Have Four-Team Groups and 24 More Games by newzee1
48 teams is way too many. Just decreases the quality of those initial games. It'll be almost certainly the same teams at the end anyway. Just pads it all out and adds some nations that field Championship level teams to get bopped by France so that Mbappe can claim the all time WC goalscorer record before he's 30