Wonder if NZ will be invited to enter teams, and how many?
https://www.oceaniafootball.com/ofc-and-fifa-talk-ofc-professional-league/
Following a four-year consultation process – and subsequent ratification by the OFC Executive Committee – President Maltock is now looking ahead to the next steps of the project, with the target of kicking the new league off in 2025.
https://www.oceaniafootball.com/ofc-and-fifa-talk-ofc-professional-league/
Following a four-year consultation process – and subsequent ratification by the OFC Executive Committee – President Maltock is now looking ahead to the next steps of the project, with the target of kicking the new league off in 2025.
The OFC President Maltock reemphasised the importance of the project.
“When I was elected, one of the most important projects that I wanted to do during my mandate is to create this professional league in Oceania,” the OFC President said.
“This is one of the most needed platforms of the competition that we need to prepare in order to be competitive on the international level.”
“Countries like New Caledonia – we produce a lot of good players, and one of these players has been a winner of the 1998 FIFA World Cup with France. That’s why we know that the potential in Oceania is huge, but it’s very much untapped because we had no competitions of this level in Oceania. This is why there is not much attention from the rest of the world so far, because, you know, there are good players in Oceania.”
To give the competition any level of legitimacy, a NZ side will be involved. It would be a very unwise move from the OFC to go the opposite way on this one and alienate the strongest nation in the Confederation.
In saying that, it wouldn't be the first time that the OFC would have tried to pull a swifty over us.