Will/should the US lose its hosting rights for the 2026 FIFA World Cup?

[MRS DONNA SHALALA]

dude they held a world cup in south africa

They don't have that many guns in South Africa, do they?

The murder rate in South Africa is almost 8 times that of the USA.

SA: 45 murders/100,000 people
USA: 6 murders/100,000 people

I visited South Africa and followed this World Cup in 2010.
I was safe.

My guy, do you see my avatar/sig? I'm South African, I know the WC was safe, well-policed, and in (relatively) safe areas etc. I hope you enjoyed your visit, by the way! Did you make it to Cape Town? That's where I'm from.

Anyway, my point is that there are statistically far-less safe countries in which the WC has been held, and that hasn't dissuaded FIFA from hosting World Cups there. A single incident in an otherwise-safe country is not going to make them pull hosting rights.

[MRS DONNA SHALALA]

dude they held a world cup in south africa

They don't have that many guns in South Africa, do they?

The murder rate in South Africa is almost 8 times that of the USA.

SA: 45 murders/100,000 people
USA: 6 murders/100,000 people

I always love when whiney white American liberals are confronted with the reality that there are in fact worse places to live on Earth than the US.

Speaking as both a South African AND a whiney (nationalized) American liberal, they both have their positives and negatives. In some ways it's a libertarian paradise - If you can afford to privately afford yourself the amenities that most Americans would trust to the government (for example, most middle class and above people have private armed security firms/investigation agencies that they would trust ahead of the police), you can live a very comfortable life on comparatively very little money. My parents both moved back to SA because they found US life to be exhausting.

I will say, I had trouble sleeping when I first moved to the USA. My home in South Africa was essentially a compound with electric fences, perimeter walls, alarm sensors etc, and I couldn't believe my US home was just exposed to the street -- anyone could just walk in!

[Santander]

dude they held a world cup in south africa

And Brazil!

Don’t forget Qatar.

Qatar is a very safe country.

It has bigger issues then a high crime rate, like ya know slavery

Why should people care about that when visiting a country, even if it did exist?

[DavidB.]

Only if you're going to continue calling it 'soccer'.

[wnwnwn]

No, it will help the image of the country.

[Mr. Ukucasha]

lol

[Flyersfan232]

No

The Olympics/World Cup should only be held in wealthy nations with existing facilities. Developing nations do not need to use precious funds to build stadiums to impress westerns for a few weeks only to abandoned the buildings

to use half though funds and stealing the other half