Leander Schaerlaeckens

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344 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Jul

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Football Weekly · Is the USA ready for the World Cup? – Football Weekly podcast · 13 May 2026 podcast

They figured out that if they went in together and unified their three bids for the World Cup, then they were all basically guaranteed to get the World Cup.

And then they kind of divvied up how many games –

So Canada and Mexico were always going to get fewer games, but they have definitely been overshadowed by everything that goes on in the United States.

I mean, you can see it in the fact of how little Johnny Infantino has bothered to spend time with the heads of state of Canada and Mexico, whereas he's constantly at the White House.

He's been to Mar-a-Lago, I believe.

He's just always a presence around Trump.

And so you can usually tell how FIFA feels about things and what's important to them by kind of tracking where Infantino shows up and where he doesn't.

That would be optimal.

I would appreciate it very much.

But I think realistically, the top for this team at a 48-team tournament probably means the quarterfinals.

I don't know how you feel, Alex.

No, I think they would have or should have felt a lot better about the group if Turkey wasn't in it.

If they'd had Bosnia or someone like that in that group, that feels more relaxing, I think, as a fan, as an observer, because Turkey's a good team.

And they actually lost to Turkey in the spring when they had a qualifier, beat Australia in recent friendlies, if memory serves.

So they've actually played all of these teams in the past year.

Yeah, they tend to play teams where they have to break them down, teams with a deep block that they have to figure out how to pick apart.

And so this team hasn't really had a signature win against a team that takes it to them and that attacks them relentlessly.

They haven't really beaten a strong European team yet.

So this is still a fairly young team.

This is still a team that was basically rebuilt from the ashes of the U.S.

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