How is Australia's coverage of the OFC Nations cup usually?
Tad defensive but key games get reported ... bit of a difference in that the AFC has over 4.5 billion people some of the world biggest economics and the worlds main Oil supplies...
My comment was more in Australia we will report on US, England, European issues ... we actually are in Asia Indonesia is closer than NZ ..
To me is almost like the media [not confined to Football] still want the world to be like the 60's...
Geographical proximity doesn't mean you're on the same continent. And I don't really get your point anyway, no one on this thread said Australia shouldn't be in Asia.
As for the rest of it, football isn't a headline sport in New Zealand, Asia isn't even close to the most interesting region for neutral football fans, and we're a small country with a limited media market. And what do large populations and oil supplies have to do with whether people in NZ care about their football teams?
I'd love football to get given more media coverage in NZ, but the attitude here towards the Asian Cup is not at all unusual. All Whites games barely rate a mention!