Hello everyone!

First of all, thanks to Aymeric for this new event for the VF community.

I'm opening this post to talk about the event, ask questions and more.

I'll start with a question: Clubs, are we going to play with the squad that is posted in each nation?

I think that's right. The qualifiers will be with your squad though.

Some nations, like Senegal, Algeria and others, don't have a squad. How are things going with them?

Hello,

As with all tournaments of this type, you do the qualifiers (a knockout cup) with your squad.

Then you play (normally) with the players who will be selected for the World Cup.

It would have been interesting to have the same team for everyone for the qualifiers.

So who am I going to choose now?

I have a question about team strength.
I'm using Turkey as an example but I think that many (if not all) nations are concerned: The two starting DFCs are 22 years old NG 85 and 24 years old NG 83.
However, when you click on them, the player profiles indicate 27 years old NG 81 and 29 years old NG 77, which is a lot less sexy...

So, question: will we get the players shown or players at the level of the existing profiles?

Thanks

Yep, that's pretty clever, but how do you schedule a match between the same team and 2 different managers?

It's still an exceptional competition... plus VF, I think the format is great!

It's going to require a lot of clubs to be created and then abolished, but basically it's a better idea to put everyone on an equal footing.

I wouldn't know how to answer that ^^.
But imagine if it's possible... you've got 100 managers who want to do it for France (100 is the minimum)... how can you manage that in a knockout cup? (with 50 matches on the same day for 1 and only 1 team).

When registration closes

^^ I'm open to anything, it's not me who codes ^^.

The idea of playing the play-offs with an identical team may seem attractive.

Except that if everyone plays the play-offs with identical teams, i.e. with strictly the same strengths and weaknesses, you can be pretty sure that it will be a succession of deadlocked, closed games with matches decided by a throw of the dice, and if no team has been lucky enough to score a goal, there will be an accumulation of matches ending in Russian penalty roulette.

If this model is adopted, we might as well draw lots to determine the 48 managers who will play in the finals.

Do you know when the dates for the qualifying tournament are?

everything is noted on the advert

the date will be given soon

It would be nice to get this free CDM competition back on track, everyone starts on an equal footing and everyone is free to adopt their own system and style of play on equal terms 👍

Yes, it has nothing to do with the Free World Cup.

Good evening Could I please know when the application ends?
Good evening

Weren't you at the last World Cup?
The qualifications will be done with our clubs so that on the day only one will be the coach for the World Cup.
As for the empty squads for the moment, it's probably because the squad isn't known. It'll come for the moment, but it's not a big deal because we're playing with our squads.
I played in the last World Cup with Turkey and I loved it, even if I didn't go far this time I'm going to try to play with them. New Zealand

How is the choice made between managers who have applied for the same country?

Is it normal that some nations only have 11 players? Like Algeria, they're missing a lot of players like Aouar, zerrouki, boudaoui, hadj moussa ect...

Yes, especially as it's easy for him to create nations with existing players! I don't think Algeria will go to the World Cup with just 11 players... But I thought it was rubbish to go to the trouble of winning a selection only to be ignored by the mdj just because I didn't have France, Spain or Argentina...

I completely agree, each nation should have the same number of players selected, which should normally be 23. Otherwise there will be no fairness and we already know in advance that it will be a big nation that wins...

Hello everyone.
When I want to apply for a nation, it says "unknown team"... 🤔
Registrations already closed?
Thank you for your feedback

@Aymeric

When will the qualifying competition for the post of coach be launched? Because it's now 39 days to go, today before CDM2026 kicks off.

Already 😮

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for the country rd congo normal that in the registrations there is the national team of congo present?

leopard rd congo

Léopard RD Congo🇨🇩

Here we go. The calendars are going to be fun! Good luck to you all!

We can't unsubscribe, the fact that this cup is starting so late is getting in the way of my schedule?

So eager to start a competition or the xG and the result is pure chance. Frankly, this game pisses me off. Have fun in your competition. I'm sick of supporting anything.

Please remove me from this ridiculous competition

Come on, it happens ;D!
You've had exceptional results for a few seasons now, so you've got to accept that things will turn around a bit.

I'm referring to creating/participating in an unofficial "bullshit" cup ;)

We need to stop complaining about everything.

As soon as there's something new, there's always someone whining about it.

It's an optional competition, so if it doesn't suit you don't sign up.

And if you're sorry you did it, don't sign up.

And if there's a bug and you can't unregister, get yourself eliminated from the first match (I know that match results are sometimes random, but even so, putting together a team with a 99.99999% chance of losing isn't too hard to do!)

I've just thought about it, but if the schedule is the same as for international tournaments, as is usually the case, the VF matches of the selections will be played at the same time as the IRL match.

So, for example, the winner of the Argentina tournament would have matches at 03:00 and 04:00 🤣

Bah, it's perfect since afk are advantaged. 🤣

You're going to go a long way, guys, a long way if the games are at 3 or 4 in the morning and if that gives the AFKs an advantage, frankly, there'll only be a draw 😁😁😁
The new zealand selection is missing players especially the stephanois old