yeh what both u guys sayin is true. but i did feel 5 CAF spots was just about fair for 2002 in relation to them having strong teams and 50 or so members, but then again when u see the big teams like cameroon, nigeria, south africa, morocco, tunisia, senegal (last time round) qualify without much difficulty then it should be more competitive. but this years qualifyin has just changed all that and now we see 4 new commers from africa qualify. If we was to loose the 4th place i would think asia may well get a 5th automatic berth as they have alot of members, it is the most populous region in the world and there are som good teams comming through kuwait,jordan, uae, north korea have improved from what ive seen and iraq i think will become one of the top teams if the country settles. but to me asia is the only ones that could get our .5 spot. so maybe i was a lil wrong in tinkin we would always have it
so our play off wid asia may be carrying alot more weight than fifa would have us know. i would like to see europe striped of 1 more place for 2010. there africa might have 6 teams south africa as hosts