and why are they playing in the Asian Cup?
2006-10-11 17:28:43 · 12 answers · asked by rumman 2 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
that is so bull crap!!!!!
2006-10-11 17:30:56 · update #1
Asia should cancel the Asian cup if Australia participates!!!
2006-10-11 17:43:35 · update #2
AUSTRALIA is the newest member of AFC (Asian Football Confederations) since January 2006. as the new member of AFC, AUSTRALIA are eligible to play in Asia's continential championship such as AFC Asian Cup.
the next major international tounament for AUSTRALIA is the 2007 AFC Asian Cup finals jointly hosted by 4 countries in Southeast Asia: Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand & Vietnam from 07 July 2007 to 29 July 2007.
2006-10-12 01:21:37 · answer #1 · answered by foongwk140804 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Continent Australia is on is also called Australasia. And besides, Australia keep winning the Oceanian Cup cos they have no competition! It's like Celtic and Rangers in Scotland. Besides, it will be a good test for the Aussies, Asia have some tricky teams
2006-10-12 06:55:12 · answer #2 · answered by slinky 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Adding to what the person above said about the Asia/Pac. It's the only way for Australia to compete in international competition other than the world cup. It's a matter of proximity not boundaries.
2006-10-12 01:05:03 · answer #3 · answered by Alfredo J 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
since january 2006 they have been part of asia. as members of asia, they have a chance to play in the asian cup. they join asia because asia has 4 automatic spots for the world cup.
2006-10-12 02:04:27 · answer #4 · answered by rizwano 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
since fifa decided that australia deserves a place in the World Cup Finals (better to playoff against an Asian team than a South American team - they were doing it in the Oceania group)
2006-10-12 01:19:24 · answer #5 · answered by KingRichard 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Australia is part of the Asia pacific region. They were in the south pacific region and that wasn't given qualifying status.... It would sound to me that you are worried that Australia may knock out your team in the competition
2006-10-12 01:20:12 · answer #6 · answered by SURFERSAM 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, since when did Israel become part of Europe ??? Israel is in the Europe group in world cups and takes part in Euro Championships as if they were part of Europe and of course they are not !! In fact they take part in almost every European competition from Miss Europe to European Song Contests. How do you explain that ?!
2006-10-12 03:01:41 · answer #7 · answered by RED-CHROME 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
austrailia are not part of asia...they are a continent and country in themselves but that would leave them out of all the continental cups cuz austrailia is the only country in the continent of austrailia.....that is the reason why austrailia has been put into the''ASIA PACIFIC'' category and so they take part in all asian competitions
2006-10-12 04:21:02 · answer #8 · answered by drishti p 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the Australia join Part of AFC since 2006. they requested for it since they say they need better opponent for the sake of playing better soccer.
any strong team from the pacific area
new zeland?
Papa new guinea?
If this simple thing u are not up dated than stop watching soccer and start watching netball.....
2006-10-12 03:27:06 · answer #9 · answered by hengmohamedramadhan 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are part of the "Asia/Pac" (Pac being short for Pacific) region of the world.
2006-10-12 00:30:00 · answer #10 · answered by modisett25 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋