The co -chair of the 2026 Local Organizing Committee, Rodney Barreto, said that the seven games that will be played in Miami for the 2026 World Cup will be equivalent to seven Super Bowls, the maximum game of the NFL.
Barreto gave this forecast during the launch of the Miami headquarters for the World Football Championship to be played between June 11 and July 19 next year in Canada, the United States and Mexico.
For the first time the World Cup will be played with 48 countries. 104 matches will be played in total: 78 in the United States and 13 (each) in Canada and Mexico.
“FIFA has designated seven World Cup games in Miami,” said Barreto, who has been at the head of the last Super Bowls held in the south of Florida. “Those matches will be the equivalent of seven Super Bowls in a period of five weeks.”
The economic impact of the last Super Bowl played in the south of Florida, 2020, exceeded 572 million dollars, according to the local organizing committee of that time.
The Super Bowl is the maximum sporting event in the United States and American football. The World Cup, however, has a much stronger global expansion and will allow a promotion of the Miami area in an incalculable dimension.
In the launch ceremony of Miami 2026 there were several city authorities as the mayor of Miami-Dade, Daniella Levine Cava; the mayor of Miami, Francis Suárez; The members of the Organizing Committee of Miami, President Alina Hudak, the members of the Janelle Prieto and Rita Case Directory.
The former congressman Donna Shalala, Miami Eric Morales, Commissioner Miguel Angel Gabela, actor Carlos Ponce, the Ariana Ariana Altuve and the Argentine World Cup Maxi Rodríguez, among others, also attended.
“I see very well how things are doing and 2026 will see a different World Cup,” Rodríguez predicted. “They will be 48 teams and the preparations are on the right track.”
Rodríguez added that Argentina is in a great moment, there is a great expectation for the Albiceleste and that, however, it will be a very difficult task to get worldwide two-time championship, an achievement that only two countries have achieved since the Cup began to dispute in 1930: Italy in 1934-38 and Brazil 1958-62.
For the first time in the history of the World Cups, FIFA decided that each city headquarters will be held with a commemorative poster with its own theme, that speaks of its art and emphasizes the qualities that distinguish it but at the same time show the global spirit of the tournament.
In this way each of the 16 cities headquarters have their own poster that has been unveiled one by one.
For the Miami poster, the work of nine candidates were preselected and in the end the work of Rubem Robierb was chosen.
Robierb’s work shows Miami as a city in which art, culture and football join in a way that celebrates diversity.
The image that stands out in the poster is a flamingo with dance football shoes on a ball world, which is a mirror of the most representative landscapes of the city.
In the ball panels, the beaches of South Beach, Little Havana, Las Palmeras, Art Deco are reflected and in depth you can see a city that combines sports, culture and ethnic inheritance.
Visa for a dream
Three teams are automatically classified to the 2026 World Cup: Canada, the United States and Mexico as hosts. Four others won that right.
The first classified to get the visa to participate in the World Cup was Japan, after beating Baréin 2-0 on the last FIFA date.
Then, three more selections were classified.
Argentina assured its ticket thanks to the 0-0 draw between Bolivia and Uruguay, in El Alto, on March 25. Until before that meeting, in the absence of five games, the Albiceleste had a 15 -point advantage to Bolivia.
With the draw there is already four games for the closure of the El Albiceleste tie was classified without playing. In any case, it was impossible for madness results to have prevented Argentina from qualifying directly to defend their world title won in Catar 2022.
New Zealand became the first country of Oceania that directly classifies a World Cup. The Neo-Cootland team achieved that honor by winning New Caledonia 3-0, which as Consuelo will go to the repechage to be played in March 2026 among six selections, one in each confederation.
Iran also assured his visa to the next World Cup after drawing 2-2 with Uzbequistan in Tehran. In this way Asia already has two classified teams.
It is almost certain that five other South American selections ensure their 2026 World Cup visa: Ecuador, 23 points; Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay 21 and Colombia 20.
Venezuela is found as the best positioned to achieve repechage in South America with 15 units, followed by Bolivia with 14 and Peru and Chile, with 10 each, and virtually eliminated.
