"I'm quite optimistic because to qualify you need to beat the other teams of your confederations, and that's a sign of quality,"
"We basically set the new tone in terms of attendance, in terms of surrounding the tournament with a lot of entertainment and glamor,"
FIFA expanded the World Cup to a 48-nation tournament scheduled June 11–July 19 at 16 sites across the United States, Mexico and Canada. Cape Verde, Curaçao, Jordan and Uzbekistan made first-time appearances. The draw at the Kennedy Center will assign teams to venues that include 11 NFL stadiums, three sites in Mexico and two in Canada, with temporary seating added at BMO Field to raise capacity to about 45,000. The world's top 11-ranked teams qualified while 22 nations compete in playoffs for six final berths. Argentina, led by Lionel Messi, seeks consecutive titles, and ticket pricing skews toward high-end buyers with attendance expected to surpass the 1994 record of 3.59 million.
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