Tis discussed all over the place but could not find a thread where the specific question was to discuss the pro's and con's of Oceania ... and if there is another option ... ie would Asia accept Oceania ... should Asia be broken into two parts...i.e. east & west ...
Read this the other day ... first some simple maths.. at 10% a number doubles every 7 and a bit times... As the Asian middle class grows the projected growth in football player numbers is expected to grow by at least 10% per year..
Registered Asian player numbers today ... 82 million
seven years time ... 164 million
fourteen years time ... 328 million...
twenty years ... easily 400 million...
This kinda puts into some perspective where Asian football will be in a few years...
Football ratings in Asia just keep growing with the ACL final having over 30 million in China alone...
When Australia played Japan the Asian audience was said to be over 500 million...