thanks for the rep, id rep you too but i think it wont let me because i already did it for the us year scheduals you do.
"The point is to make world football better. That's always the point in doing things to better the game. This benefits world football by giving countries that don't get to play decent competition a chance, it included them in the world game instead of excluding them now. Overall it would weaken AFC at the beginning, but those OFC countries would have just as good of a chance of improving as the ASEAN teams do." How are they currently excluded from the world game? - Not a single OFC country could put a league together to compete in any of the AFC club competitions. New Zealands' one pro team is even getting kicked out of ALeague at request of FIFA (not AFC... but FIFA.) - They have a better chance of qualifying for WC now than they would in AFC. In AFC the task before them would be insurmountable. - They would have next to no chance of even qualifying for the Challenge Cup, let alone Asia Cup. - ASEAN includes Australia in addition to a sleeping giant in India. There are also several mid-range associations with large potential for professional leagues in the future -- including Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, etc. It doesn't even begin to compare. There is simply nothing for these associations to improve. - They aren't going to do any better in AFC than they do outside of AFC. - Nothing is going to change for these associations by being included in AFC, except now they and other countries will be forced to travel extensively for no good reason. - All that traveling, if anything, would probably cause several (most) associations to cease operating. - If that's your goal, why not just delete OFC rather than forcing an impossible merger.
