England have booked their place at the 2026 World Cup and so attention turns to how they might fare in North America next summer – and how some of their rivals are looking.<\/p>\n
Thomas Tuchel’s contract runs to the end of the tournament and the feeling has been that England have gone all out to get to this point.<\/p>\n
Yet Tuchel believes England will be “underdogs” at the World Cup “because we haven’t won it for decades”.<\/p>\n
Argentina and Brazil, who have both qualified, will hope the location gives them a boost. <\/p>\n
Seven of the eight World Cups set in the Americas have been won by a South American team.<\/p>\n
And 10 of the 11 World Cups held in Europe have been won by European teams.<\/p>\n
BBC Sport looks at how some of the World Cup favourites are shaping up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England have booked their place at the 2026 World Cup and so attention turns to how they might…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-228508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}