No activity for 6 weeks even with a World Cup going on? Does that speak of disinterest in the sport on here or a lack of passion for this years World Cup? I know I've barely watched it compared to what I'd normally do and most of that is to do with how I feel about where and when it's being held.
People from football-loving countries are not very active these days. I remember the glory days of discussion involving the 2014 and 2018 world cups.
At this point, my country's team Brazil, had a good performance: we won 2 matches out of Serbia and Switzerland; in 2018, we had the same countries in our group, and we only won against one, Serbia, while tying with Switzerland. So I think that is good luck for this cup. Brazil's team is slightly better than in the last world cup, so I hope the team is also more psychologically prepared to play at a disadvantage (like if the opposing team begins by scoring first). In all world cups since we won in 2002, we lost after starting at a disadvantage and being unable to recover, while we never won a single match since the 2002 world cup (so that's four world cups) by reverting to a disadvantage except with a few easy matches in the group stage like the match with Japan in 2006 or Croatia in 2014.
However, I think that this cup is extremely competitive. All major teams that qualified are playing well except Italy, which didn't qualify. Belgium is playing much worse, but that is expected since Belgium's golden generation peaked around the time of the last WC, and since it's a small country, they don't typically produce great players all the time. France, Spain, Germany, and Argentina are the other favorites IMO.
I think that it would be more interesting if South America should have a couple of spots from North America. In this cup North America gets to send 4 teams, South America, 4 teams, and Europe 13 teams. So very good South American teams often don't qualify like Chile and Colombia (both played very well in 2014), while Costa Rica and Canada qualify and become punching bags. Well, in 2026, the Cup will have 48 teams, so Italy and Sweden, and the good South American teams will likely be all in.