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The month-long event will span countries, include 16 more teams and make FIFA billions. But some worry its scope will take a toll on players and fans alike.<\/strong><\/p>

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Argentina’s national team during training in Kansas City, Kansas. (Charlie Riedel\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

This summer\u2019s World Cup will be, by all relevant metrics, the largest sporting event ever staged.<\/p>\n

Soccer\u2019s quadrennial showcase already outpaced the Olympics in duration, attendance and global audience. After FIFA expanded the 32-team World Cup to 48 nations? That scale only escalated.<\/p>\n

A 29-day schedule is now 39. Instead of 64 matches, they\u2019ll play 104. Three host countries. Sixteen stadiums, more than ever<\/a>, and most of them NFL behemoths. More than 5 million fans are expected to attend matches, easily eclipsing the record 3.6 million set at the 1994 tournament in the U.S. FIFA is aiming for 6 billion viewers globally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fan base will increase,\u201d said Jill Ellis, the former U.S. women\u2019s coach who serves as FIFA\u2019s chief football officer. \u201cThe attention will increase. As a coach, the participation levels are really important because you want kids to pick up the ball and go out and be inspired. But I think in terms of what it does \u2014 and it draws the attention and creates the next generation \u2014 that\u2019s the most important thing [about] the legacy of a World Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Preparations around Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, as the signage is transitioned to become Boston Stadium for the World Cup. (Maddie Meyer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n
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People put up signage at Mexico City Stadium for the World Cup. (Guillermo Arias\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

But all that reach \u2014 and revenue, expected to reach $9 billion for FIFA \u2014 is not without costs.<\/p>\n

The expanded field inevitably dilutes the prestige of punching a World Cup ticket. A 63 percent increase in matches is naturally going to test fans\u2019 passion and patience. Players must navigate not seven but eight games while also navigating North America heat, humidity and travel.<\/p>\n

It all raises questions: Will a bigger, longer tournament, with more teams in more places, ultimately be better for fans? Players? The sport?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe fear that, in the end, the World Cup will just turn into the survival of the fittest,\u201d said Maheta Molango, who runs the Professional Footballers\u2019 Association in England and Wales and serves on the board of the FIFPRO players\u2019 union. \u201cThere\u2019s a big chance that this may be the case, because some of the most talented ones who play for the most prestigious team will get to a stage where it\u2019s just too much.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Haiti’s Woodensky Pierre, front, warms up during a training session in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Odelyn Joseph\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

The World Cup is no stranger to expansion. After fluctuating between 13 and 16 teams in its early iterations, from 1930 to 1950, the tournament field was set at 16 in 1954, then 24 in 1982 and 32 in 1998. In January 2017, the FIFA Council unanimously voted to increase the competition to 48 nations for the 2026 event.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in the 21st century, and we should shape the World Cup for the 21st century,\u201d FIFA President Gianni Infantino told reporters after that 2017 vote<\/a>. \u201cFootball is more than Europe and South America \u2014 football is global.\u201d<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s 13-team allotment increased to 16 with the change, and South America went from four to six. But the growth mostly underscores FIFA\u2019S long-standing push to popularize the game in budding soccer regions.<\/p>\n

Africa, which had five teams at the 2022 event, will send nine. Asia surged from five to eight. Concacaf, the confederation representing North and Central America and the Caribbean, doubled from three to six. Every region except Europe also got a spot in the intercontinental playoffs that decided the final qualifiers. Concacaf got two.<\/p>\n

Four years ago, Concacaf\u2019s modern powers \u2014 the U.S., Canada and Mexico \u2014 nabbed the confederation\u2019s three direct World Cup berths, leaving the rest of the region to scrap for one spot in a playoff. This time around, there was not only space for Panama and Haiti to each make their second World Cup but for Cura\u00e7ao \u2014 an island of some 150,000 residents off the coast of Venezuela \u2014 to become the smallest qualifier in the event\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

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Cura\u00e7ao’s players leave by bus after a training session in Willemstad, Cura\u00e7ao. (Pong Pong\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a huge, huge thing, not only for us as players, but for the whole country,\u201d said Eloy Room, Cura\u00e7ao\u2019s goalkeeper. \u201cOf course, people also have some negative things to say about [the expansion]. But I think they have to see the bigger picture and what it means for us as an island to participate in the World Cup. People who maybe before didn\u2019t want to watch the World Cup, or didn\u2019t even know about it, they\u2019re maybe now excited to watch it because different countries are there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The increase in spots sapped some of the intrigue out of the qualifying process, a 2\u00bd-year marathon that required some teams to play more than 20 matches. But the tournament isn\u2019t without its notable snubs. Denmark, Poland and four-time champion Italy did not survive the European qualifying gantlet. Traditional African powers Nigeria and Cameroon also didn\u2019t make it. Costa Rica, a recent World Cup regular, missed out despite Concacaf\u2019s increased allotment. And the 48 teams still represent just 23 percent of FIFA\u2019s 211 member nations.<\/p>\n

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Fans watch Spain’s training in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (Brett Davis\/Imagn Images\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cI\u2019m quite optimistic, because to qualify you need to beat the teams of your confederation, and that\u2019s a sign of quality,\u201d said Arsene Wenger, the former Arsenal coach who now works as a FIFA executive. \u201cIt\u2019s just down to results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet the effect on the tournament\u2019s entertainment value remains to be seen. One reliable star of the World Cup is its \u201cgroup of death,\u201d when two or three powerhouses draw each other in the opening round. (In 2022, Spain, Germany, Japan and Costa Rica fought for two spots in the knockout round.) But while this summer\u2019s group stage has some tantalizing encounters \u2014 Brazil-Morocco, Spain-Uruguay, Portugal-Colombia, England-Croatia \u2014 the increase from eight groups to 12 spread thin the elite.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of me gets excited for different teams and countries to get to experience the World Cup,\u201d said John O\u2019Brien, a former U.S. midfielder who played in two World Cups. \u201cBut the first round \u2014 and this might be common or not \u2014 I\u2019m feeling a little bit less excited about. [Previously] I\u2019d be like, \u2018Oh day one, I\u2019m going to be watching all the games.\u2019 I don\u2019t feel that way now. I feel a little bit like, \u2018Okay, I\u2019ll pick up some games here and there in the first round.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the mental toll of adding another 10 days to a tournament where athletes are already under unspeakable pressure \u2014 particularly those from soccer-crazed hotbeds such as Brazil, Argentina and England. Now a sports psychologist in Colorado, O\u2019Brien identified the prevalence of outside narratives as a key obstacle players must overcome on the World Cup stage. With a longer tournament comes more time for such distractions to take hold.<\/p>

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\u201cThe expectations start building up, and usually that\u2019s just kind of a myth,\u201d O\u2019Brien said. \u201cYou\u2019re focusing on the important tasks that you need to do and not playing too much into the whole storyline that the media is going to be creating.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Czech player Lukas Cerv at a practice in Mansfield, Texas. (Julio Cortez\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

FIFA initially aimed to keep players\u2019 workloads the same in the 48-team format, adding the round of 32 to the knockout stage but reducing the group stage from three matches per team to two. But then the organization voted in 2023 to retain the three-game group stage after all, adding another match to the workload for title-contending teams.<\/p>\n

The North American summer heat will only exacerbate the issue. Yes, many matches will be played in the evening, and there are domed, climate-controlled venues in the Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Vancouver markets. But the research group World Weather Attribution still found that roughly a quarter of the games<\/a> are likely to be played amid heat and humidity levels that make it harder for the body to stay cool.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. team trains in front of fans in Irvine, California. (Jamie Squire\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cYou can travel in different cities and the weather is completely different,\u201d French defender Ibrahima Konate said. \u201cIf you go to Miami, it\u2019s more humid. If you go to L.A., it\u2019s more dry. It\u2019s always about adaptation, adaptation, adaptation. I was here last summer for holiday, and I was like: \u2018Wow, it\u2019s very hot. We\u2019re going play in this weather?\u2019 You know, it\u2019s not easy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Travel will also test players\u2019 bodies and biorhythms. The 2022 World Cup was played in Qatar, a nation roughly the size of Connecticut. This tournament offers hours-long flights, four time zones and varying altitudes.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s another factor that\u2019s going to increase the level of fatigue for the players,\u201d said Gregory Dupont, a former conditioning coach for Real Madrid and the French national team.<\/p>\n

FIFA said in a statement that it is \u201ccommitted to protecting the health and safety of all players, referees, fans, volunteers and staff.\u201d For the first time, every match will include a three-minute hydration break midway through each half. There will be climate-controlled benches at all outdoor games, and FIFA hosted a session on heat mitigation strategies and heat-related illnesses for team medical officers in March.<\/p>\n

Travel during the group stage has also been centralized. Every team in the United States\u2019 group, for example, will play all three matches on the West Coast. The group featuring France, the 2018 champion and 2022 runner-up, will play only on the East Coast.<\/p>\n

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Iran’s national team arrives in Tijuana, Mexico, for the World Cup. (Victor Medina\/Reuters)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

\u201cWe play in Boston, Philadelphia and New York,\u201d French captain Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 said, describing his team\u2019s opening-round schedule. \u201cSo let\u2019s see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rest days have also increased: After teams typically played once every four days in 2022, squads will mostly take the field once every five or six days during the group stage this summer.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going through full training cycles in between games,\u201d U.S. goalkeeper Matt Turner said. \u201cIt\u2019s not just a quick three, four days, get yourself ready and go and go and go. There\u2019s a lot of more time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, teams rarely make it to the final with a fully fit and healthy squad. Throw in an extra match and the summer heat\u2019s toll, and the odds increase that the World Cup\u2019s most crucial contests could turn into games of attrition.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeat doesn\u2019t necessarily add to the injury risk in that particular moment,\u201d said Darren Burgess, the performance director at Italian club Juventus who also works with FIFPRO. \u201cBut it adds to the total workload and the accumulation of fatigue that we can expect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The title game is a particular concern. Eschewing domed venues or an evening kickoff, FIFA set the final for 3 p.m. Eastern at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Both previous World Cups hosted in the U.S. summer \u2014 the 1994 men\u2019s tournament and 1999 women\u2019s event \u2014 culminated with afternoon kickoffs at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where temperatures hovered around 100 degrees. In both cases, the teams slogged through 120 scoreless minutes before deciding the match on penalty kicks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it\u2019s a final of the World Cup, the game has to be amazing,\u201d Konate said. \u201cBut if players play a little bit in slow motion because of the weather and because players are tired, that can be sad as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A fan kisses a plastic World Cup trophy before a friendly between Mexico and Serbia in Toluca, Mexico. (Agustin Cuevas\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

All of the variables raise the possibility of a decidedly unpredictable World Cup. Could a favorite like England struggle through a knockout path that\u2019ll probably take it through Mexico City\u2019s intense elevation and Miami\u2019s sweating humidity? Will the need for rest and rotation reward deep squads over a stacked starting lineup?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to see how some of the big teams maybe struggle a bit with the ways in which this tournament\u2019s different,\u201d said John Strong, Fox\u2019s lead play-by-play announcer for the tournament. \u201cI love chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for all of the focus on this World Cup\u2019s unprecedented scale, the game itself remains the same. One ball. Eleven players a side. Ninety minutes. To many players, it\u2019s as simple as that.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the conditions are what they are,\u201d Belgian captain Youri Tielemans said. \u201cWhether it\u2019s hot or cold, it doesn\u2019t really matter \u2014 we are there for one job, and it\u2019s to play for our country, to play football and to perform at the highest level.\u201d<\/p>

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