# Press Release: Squad Check by worldcupglobal.com **FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE** ## Could You Make a 2026 World Cup Squad? A New Free Tool Will Tell You Where You'd Sit on Any National Team's Bench in 90 Seconds *Worldcupglobal.com launches "Squad Check," a viral self-test that benchmarks fans against the real 26-man squads of all 48 World Cup nations, ranks them in the position queue and names their closest comparable player.* **STOCKHOLM, May 20, 2026** — With three weeks until the FIFA World Cup 2026 kicks off in the United States, Canada and Mexico, independent fan portal **worldcupglobal.com** today launches **Squad Check**, a free 90-second tool that tells any football fan in the world exactly where they would rank in the 26-man pool of any tournament nation, and which player they would be. The tool, available at **worldcupglobal.com/squad-check**, walks users through a five-screen quiz (country, age, position, level of play, attribute self-rating) and outputs a country-branded result card with three things every fan wants to know: 1. Their verdict in capital letters: **STARTING XI**, **MADE THE 26** or **CUT**. 2. Their exact position in the country's queue at their playing role (e.g. "32nd-best central midfielder in Italy's pool"). 3. Their closest comparable player from that nation's real 2026 squad, drawn from the federation-confirmed lists worldcupglobal.com already publishes for the tournament. Every result mints a unique shareable URL with a dynamically generated 1280×720 social card showing the verdict, the player comparable and the position-queue ranking. The card itself drives the loop, optimised for Twitter, Instagram, iMessage and LinkedIn previews. ## Built on real squad data Squad Check pulls its rankings from the verified 26-man rosters worldcupglobal.com already maintains for the tournament, including the 19 nations whose squads have been confirmed by May 20 (Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia, Brazil, Cabo Verde, Croatia, Curaçao, DR Congo, France, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Scotland, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and Tunisia, with the remaining lists due before FIFA's June 1 deadline). The site holds 495 individually web-verified player profiles across those 19 squads. A three-stage scoring algorithm weights attribute self-ratings by position, applies an honesty multiplier based on age and playing level (a 35-year-old amateur claiming Mbappé pace will not land on Argentina's bench), and then compares the adjusted score to the published strength of the chosen country's squad. ## "It's a serious project in a fun shell" > "Every World Cup, fans imagine themselves in the squad. We built the tool that finally tells them how delusional they are, but with the actual data underneath. It is a serious sports-data project in a fun shell. The card on the share preview is what matters, that is what every fan ends up screenshotting and sending to the group chat." — Pontus Vippelius, Founder, worldcupglobal.com ## Three things to know - **Multilingual.** Squad Check is available in English at launch with all 25 worldcupglobal.com locales receiving the same UI strings via the site's standing i18n pipeline. - **No login, no sign-up.** Results are anonymous unless a user opts into a future leaderboard. - **No platform lock-in.** The whole pipeline runs on Cloudflare's edge using satori and resvg-wasm via `workers-og`. No third-party graphics service, no Vercel dependency, no Node-only library calls. ## Try it. Beat the model. Become the brag. Squad Check is the fan-side mirror to worldcupglobal.com's other tournament tool, the AI Predictor at worldcupglobal.com/predictor/ai, which uses a machine-learning model trained on historical squad strengths, FIFA ranking and qualifying form to publish a full tournament forecast. Take both. **You can run your own bracket in the human Predictor at worldcupglobal.com/predictor and see if you can generate better results than the AI prediction model.** The site publishes a public leaderboard once group-stage matches begin. The Squad Check tool is live now at: **https://worldcupglobal.com/squad-check/** ## About worldcupglobal.com worldcupglobal.com is an independent supporter portal for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, covering all 48 nations across 25 languages. The site publishes daily news from federations and host cities, the full match schedule, host-city guides, federation-verified squad data with web-sourced biographical profiles for every player in every confirmed squad, a global watch guide, an interactive Predictor and an AI Predictor model. It is not affiliated with FIFA. ## Press contact Pontus Vippelius — pontus@worldcupglobal.com Press kit, images and short-form video: worldcupglobal.com/press Embed-friendly result-card endpoint for media partners: /api/squad-check/og/.png