Faced with the unconcealed partiality of the AFC, Iraq, the UAE, Oman and Indonesia naturally can t stand it anymore

Soon after, the group draw ceremony for the fourth stage of the playoffs in the World Cup qualifiers in Asia will be held, and the six teams will make every effort to make the last 2.5 qualifying places. However, at this critical moment, the AFC suddenly came to disrupt the situation. They did not hesitate to violate the rules they set at the beginning and also tried to ensure that the two major financial backers of Qatar and Saudi Arabia advanced to the World Cup! The competition rules for this World Cup qualifiers in Asia were actually finalized before the qualifiers started. The countries responsible for hosting the fourth stage play-offs should be the two teams with the best results in the top 18 matches. If the rules are strictly followed, the ones responsible for hosting the fourth stage play-offs will be Iraq and the United Arab Emirates. In order to give their team home advantage, the football associations in Iraq and the UAE have also actively applied, but the AFC ignored the rules and directly designated Saudi Arabia and Qatar as the hosts of the fourth stage playoffs. The AFC did not give any explanation for this outrageous decision.

In addition, in the group draw, the AFC also takes good care of Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Since Saudi Arabia lost consecutive games in the Golden Cup, their latest world ranking has been surpassed by Iraq. If divided according to this ranking, Qatar and Iraq will become the first team. Therefore, Qatar and Saudi Arabia may be divided into the same group in the play-offs, and at least one of the two teams will not be able to go directly to the World Cup.

In order to avoid this, the AFC played a clever trick when it was divided. They refer to FIFA's world ranking in June, and the Saudi team's ranking was still above Iraq, so Saudi Arabia was able to beat Iraq and gain the status of the first team.

Faced with the unconcealed partiality of the AFC, Iraq, the UAE, Oman and Indonesia naturally couldn't stand it anymore. At the first time the official announcement of the AFC was released, the four countries successively sent letters of protest, expressing their dissatisfaction to the AFC. They demanded that the AFC must adhere to the principle of neutrality, choose the competition location according to the original rules, or select a neutral country to host all competitions. If the AFC insists on doing their own thing, they will sue FIFA and a more authoritative organization will arbitrate this.

Amid many doubts from the outside world, I wonder what kind of response the AFC will give?